NWA Innovation Fund

35 Mules provides early-stage startups with cross-industry subject-matter expertise, advanced technology solutions, business services, world-class facilities and access to Fortune 200 corporate and technology leaders.

Lead is a group of institutional investors with an entrepreneurial mindset. LEAD operates an investment division and an innovation arm.

Embark Collective helps Florida’s startup talent build bold, scalable, thriving companies.

Tampa Bay Wave is a “for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs” innovation community working to foster a stronger and bigger tech startup ecosystem in Tampa Bay and throughout Florida. Tampa Bay Wave is fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of their organization staff and operations.

The incubator supports startup and early stage companies who are at the research and development intensive phase of their growth process.

Rokk3r is a strategic holding company that invests in creating, acquiring and integrating companies. Rokk3r partners with corporations and entrepreneurs to build and scale technology-enabled companies and business models leveraging exponential technologies.

LAB Ventures is a VC Fund and Startup Studio dedicated to accelerating early-stage real estate and construction technology companies.

Endeavor Miami creates a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth entrepreneurs to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward.

PS27 Foundation provides educational resources to early-stage companies and startups to help them achieve sustainable growth. We deliver training and education through classroom lessons, company site visits, comprehensive mentoring, and distance learning.

Groundswell Startups, Inc. is a privately funded, nonprofit incubator serving high tech founders in Space Coast, FL, a region that offers more engineering talent per capita than any other in the United States. Groundswell’s mission is to create a strong pipeline to capital, resources, and industry expert support for the benefit of high impact startup companies in Space Coast, FL.

The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation is a public-private partnership between Nova Southeastern University and Broward County acting as an economic and education development engine linking the South Florida innovation ecosystem.

UF Innovate is building business on innovation. It is the umbrella organization uniting the four entities that drive the innovation ecosystem at UF. Based at one of the nation’s leading research institutions, UF Innovate comprises Tech Licensing, Ventures, Pathways, and an Accelerate program, which includes two business incubators, The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech. Together, those organizations move research discoveries from the laboratory to the market. UF Innovate connects innovators with entrepreneurs, investors and industry, incubates startups and growth companies, and fosters a resilient economy — all in an effort to make the world a better place.

The Launch Pad at The University of Miami offers career guidance, resources, and advice to entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors at the University of Miami. Our mission at The Launch Pad is to show University of Miami students and alumni that starting a new venture and being an entrepreneur is a legitimate career path.

The Tampa Bay Technology Incubator (TBTI) is one vehicle through which USF CONNECT grows successful companies. As part of USF Research and Innovation's Innovation Enterprise, TBTI supports technology research as a catalyst for economic development and advocates the creation and development of facilities for high-technology companies and related support functions.