Andreas Calabrese (@a_d_calabrese)
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Five years ago this month, Tampa Bay Ventures was founded on a structural thesis: that Florida, now the seventeenth-largest economy in the world, was producing venture-scale companies at a rate the existing capital base could not absorb, and that a disciplined, locally embedded fund operating full-time inside the Tampa Bay ecosystem would compound an information advantage that out-of-state investors could not replicate.
Fund I closed shortly after at $27M, with a mandate to be the first institutional check into founders building from the region. Over the five years since, we have invested in 19 portfolio companies, often pre-revenue, and frequently before any other institutional capital had committed.
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