The Weekly Collective

Tampa Tech Firm Digital Hands Gets $15M from Atlanta-Based Investor
St. Pete Catalyst • Digital Hands, a cybersecurity company that provides comprehensive managed security services, received a $15M investment from Fulcrum Equity Partners. Fulcrum is known for backing high-growth cybersecurity companies by providing expansion capital. This is the largest investment year-to-date in a local women-led company.

Black Tech Entrepreneur Group from Tampa Finds Partner in UK
83 Degrees Media • The Mainframe, a nonprofit organization formed to help cultivate and promote Black technology talent, recently announced a partnership with UK nonprofit, UKBlackTech. Through this partnership, The Mainframe and UKBlackTech plan to collaborate on programming, create cross-market opportunities and engage with respective government agencies, corporations, and universities to further Black tech talent.

Tampa Bay Entrepreneur Identifies Tech Trends That Move the Needle for Growing Companies
St. Pete Catalyst • Brian Sallee, founder of Avorit, shares his advice on how tech companies can improve existing operations for a competitive advantage. Sallee's key takeaway is the 80-20 rule. "Twenty percent of the things you deal with as a CEO or an organization generate 80 percent of the results," he advises. He also mentions three other technologies that tech companies can adopt to pare down the information flow and improve processes.

Company: Callyo

Elevator Pitch: A mobile phone technology for law enforcement to combat crimes such as human trafficking and child exploitation.

Position: Security Engineer

Position Highlights: Callyo is looking for a Security Engineer to join their team. A Security Engineer at Callyo protects information that keeps Callyo communities safe throughout its entire lifecycle. This role's responsibilities include working with application developers to deliver secure, world-class software experiences, auditing and improving the security of Callyo's existing infrastructure and applications, and overseeing security practices among company systems such as email and CRMs.

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Highlights of the VC Platform Summit 2019 — Tweet Edition
In July, VCs from all across the globe attended the VC Platform Summit 2019 to share best practices, tactics and what's next for the emerging number of VC platform teams. Allie Felix, Director of Platform at Embarc Collective, attended this year's conference and took notes — tweet style. In this resource, learn what platform is and what this means for founders. Allie also shares insights on the dynamic shifts happening in the VC world that are positioned to help founders build bigger and more successful companies.

5 Ways to Shake Up Your B2B Marketing Strategy
With the influx of tools and solutions available to businesses, B2B companies have to stand out in order to get the customer's attention. The tried and true ways of grabbing the B2B customer's attention, such as white papers and ebooks, are proving to be less and less effective. Lucia Fontaina-Powell, Marketing Director of Quuu, shares what B2B tech companies can borrow from other industries to refresh existing marketing tactics. In this resource, she also highlights ways to push creative boundaries and truly connect with your customers.

Ignite the Night Orlando
Non-government funded technologies that are addressing the following focus areas should apply: Improve Energy Storage Density; Radiation – Protection, Mitigation, and Hardware; Power Efficient Technologies; Medical Breakthroughs; and X-Factor (basically anything so cool that NASA should know about it).
Deadline August 30
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BioPitch at the BioFlorida Conference
BioFlorida is currently accepting applications from seed and early stage life science companies interested in competing during the BioPitch sessions at the BioFlorida Annual Conference taking place October 20-22 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street.
Deadline August 15
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