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Florida Funders Florida Funders is a hybrid between a venture capital fund and an investor network

Florida Funders is a hybrid between a venture capital fund and an investor network that discovers, funds, and builds early-stage technology companies.

09/16/2026

AI is changing the call center industry, but Trevor Clark doesn't think it's replacing people anytime soon.

On this episode of Skin in the Game, the ShyftOff founder joins Saxon Baum to talk about where AI is already handling customer interactions well, where it still falls short, and why he believes complex conversations will always need a human on the other end.

They also get into what founders get wrong about AI adoption right now, and how ShyftOff is thinking about the balance between automation and people as the industry shifts. Plus, Trevor speaks candidly about building and scaling ShyftOff out of Tampa along the way.

Listen to the full episode. https://hubs.la/Q04xF9_-0

Is it time for a fall refresh? As you're reorganizing closets and calendars, don't forget your investment portfolio.A ne...
09/10/2026

Is it time for a fall refresh? As you're reorganizing closets and calendars, don't forget your investment portfolio.

A new school year and season is an ideal opportunity to re-evaluate your assets and consider if you're due for diversification.

Consider adding VC to the mix: top-decile venture funds have cleared 20%+ net IRRs in nearly every vintage since 2017. Beyond the return, it's also a chance to back founders solving real-world problems and have a hand in their impact.

It doesn't have to be complicated. When you become part of the FLF Investor Network as an accredited investor, you get exclusive access to invest alongside us in pre-vetted, early-stage tech deals.

Complete a quick self-accreditation and join our network today, or get in touch with our Investor Associate, Guy Levy, who's happy to answer any questions and discuss your investment goals.

https://hubs.la/Q04x7x2C0

09/10/2026

Florida Funders Fund 2 portfolio company Betr, founded by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, just reunited Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier on screen for the first time since Entourage, this time for Betr 2.0. Jake Paul, Lonzo Ball, Gelo Ball and Le'Veon Bell join Piven and Grenier in the video.

At the center of the launch is Predictions, rolling out in phases to eligible users in select states through Betr's integration with Polymarket, making Betr the first consumer app to launch it. The campaign also marks Betr's evolution from a microbetting app into a five-product platform: Picks, Predictions, Social Sportsbook, Social Casino and Arcade, with Rips on the way.

"Betr today is a fundamentally different company than the one we launched," said Joey Levy, Founder and CEO of Betr.

Variety and TMZ both covered the reunion and launch. Watch the spot and read the full release below.

https://hubs.la/Q04x7wNz0

Stoke Space just closed a $1 billion Series E to push their fully reusable rocket toward its first flight.The round was ...
09/09/2026

Stoke Space just closed a $1 billion Series E to push their fully reusable rocket toward its first flight.

The round was co-led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital, with Stoke Space targeting early 2027 for the first orbital launch of its Nova Pathfinder vehicle. The funding also accelerates work on the larger 15-ton-class Nova Block 2 vehicle and builds out the production capacity needed to fly at scale.

As an FLF Alts deal, investors in our network have the opportunity to invest directly in this later-stage, fast-growing company in the space transportation sector.

Congratulations to Andy Lapsa, Tom Feldman, and the entire Stoke Space team on this milestone round.

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When we say we dive deep with our founders, we mean it. We gathered several of our FLF portfolio company founders in Mia...
09/08/2026

When we say we dive deep with our founders, we mean it. We gathered several of our FLF portfolio company founders in Miami to join Rachael Richardson, our Director of Investments and a Certified Scuba Diver, for a dive trip to explore the Florida coast from an entirely new perspective. Connection and inspiration know no bounds.

In September 2016, Tom Wallace, Marc Blumenthal and Kevin Adamek took over a small early-stage investment firm in Florid...
09/04/2026

In September 2016, Tom Wallace, Marc Blumenthal and Kevin Adamek took over a small early-stage investment firm in Florida.

They saw a problem: talented Florida founders kept leaving for San Francisco or Boston to get funded. So they set out to change that, and Saxon Baum and Michael Kadow joined to help build a firm around network, distribution, and community.

Nine years later, Florida Funders has an investor network of 2,000-plus accredited investors, multiple venture capital funds, and over $300M invested in early-stage tech.

We're Florida's most connected VC firm, and the mission remains: find great founders, fund them, help them build.

We were honored to join Embarc Collective Tampa Bay's Glaring Gap Summit last week. Each year, the event aims to educate...
09/03/2026

We were honored to join Embarc Collective Tampa Bay's Glaring Gap Summit last week. Each year, the event aims to educate its 50 select women attendees - from all career stages, including students - on how to vet early-stage business models, assess markets, and study valuation tactics and portfolio strategy to expand the pool of investors engaged with female founders.

Among the summit's many sessions, FLF Director of Investments Rachael Richardson presented on what makes startups stand out to investors and pulled back the curtain on our proven investment process.

Other topics covered through panels, hands-on workshops, and conversations included:

- Demystifying Angel Investing
- Capital Is Power: Women, Wealth & Influence
- Inside the Networks That Shape Venture Capital
- From the Sidelines to the Cap Table

Featuring insight from experts like Columbia Business School professor Angela Lee, Lisa Dallmer of Dimensional Fund Advisors, All Raise's SVP of Marketing Elise Brown, angel investor Mina Kim, Kamel PR founder Kathy Osborne, and founder and CEO of Women in Tech & Entrepreneurship Raechel Canipe.

We're excited to see what connections and future investors come out of this year's summit. Thanks for having us, Evan Erickson and Embarc!

Archive just announced the close of a strategic funding round led by Anti-Fund and Florida Funders, with participation f...
09/02/2026

Archive just announced the close of a strategic funding round led by Anti-Fund and Florida Funders, with participation from Battery Ventures, Stripe, Tiger Global, Lux Capital, and Human Capital, angels from OpenAI and Perplexity, and more than 50 founders and executives across tech and consumer companies.

More than 1,000 brands, including Pinterest, DoorDash, L'Oréal, and two of the largest AI labs, now run their creator marketing on Archive. The platform gives brands social listening and end-to-end creator programs, built on AI that reads short-form video in ways manual tools never could - like processing 25,000 videos in under 5 minutes.

Jake Paul, co-founder of Anti-Fund, put it this way: "The fastest-growing AI companies in our portfolio have made creators their number one channel, and Archive is the machine behind it. This is exactly the kind of company we started Anti-Fund to bet on."

We couldn't be prouder to back Archive and its co-founders, Paul Benigeri and Geoff Woo, as they scale. Can't wait to see what's next in their journey.

Tampa is officially the #1 large city in America to start a business!WalletHub compared 100 of the nation's largest cit...
08/31/2026

Tampa is officially the #1 large city in America to start a business!

WalletHub compared 100 of the nation's largest cities across 19 factors, from access to financing to office-space affordability. Florida took the entire top five, with Orlando, Jacksonville, Hialeah, and St. Petersburg joining Tampa to lead the pack.

Tampa earned the top spot thanks to a low corporate tax rate that lets founders keep more of their revenue, plus a high number of investors per capita to fund the toughest early years.

Couldn't be prouder to call Tampa home and contribute to expanding this business hub even further.

https://hubs.la/Q04vZkR90

08/27/2026

FLF runs on human connection and trust.

We show up in person, consistently, at our annual summit and at founder and investor gatherings throughout the year, because relations that last take time in the room together.

When you work with FLF, you work directly with our team, not a layer of gatekeepers.

That closeness turns knowledge and introductions into results our founders and investors can point to.

Want access to a community that shows up for you? That's the FLF Investor Network. Join us.
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