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Embarc Collective member company syp is partnering with USF athletes to test its smart hydration technology and improve athletic performance. 🚀💧

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/yO6O8Vehm7

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🔬 Congratulations to Moffitt Cancer Center and Speros on opening the Moffitt Discovery and Innovation Center!

We're proud that this new research hub will house the future Speros FORGE Startup Incubator, led by Embarc Collective. 🚀

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/E04XRdWtNg

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Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company DAGR on being selected for @PalantirTech's Startup Fellowship Cohort 003! We’re proud to see our founders earning opportunities to accelerate innovation on a national stage.

🔗 Explore membership today: https://t.co/TobVKfTbMe

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🚀 Meet the @AmbitionAccel cohort!

We're pleased to introduce Paul Evans, Founder & CEO of Pathi Health, an AI-powered platform helping cancer patients understand diagnoses, organize medical records, and explore clinical trials in English and Spanish.

🔗 https://t.co/ohG4kbaujx

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We’re excited to share this week’s #EcosystemHighlight, a series that features founders and leaders from our vast community of innovators!

This week, we’re highlighting Kamal, Chief Innovation Officer & Managing Partner at Electus Global Education Co.

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🚀 Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company Cope Notes and Founder & CEO Johnny Crowder on winning the CTIA @WirelessFdn 's 2026 Catalyst and @TMobile Innovator Award!

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/4LUP7wyI1t

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Mark your calendars for Embarc Collective's Q4 Builder Series!
Join us for a conversation featuring Jennifer Crabtree of Tampa Medical & Research District and TGH, moderated by Jennifer Burrington of Tampa Bay EDC.

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/I1cOShlthk

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🚀 Meet the @AmbitionAccel cohort!

Introducing Krishan Punia, founder of SisaTech AI, whose AI-powered platform, SIVIA Medical, simplifies complex patient records so cardiologists can spend more time caring for patients.

Learn more: https://t.co/mQMHIOeiOF

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Introducing the 2026 HealthTech cohort!

Anchored at Embarc Collective within the Tampa Medical & Research District, this track brings together founders developing solutions across healthcare delivery, medical devices, diagnostics and digital health.

Through Ambition Accelerated, these companies will connect with leading medical institutions, corporate partners, coaches and investors to help bring innovations to market and scale in Florida.

Thank you to our founding partners @FloridaC100, @EmbarcCollectiv and @eMergeAmericas. Thank you to our presenting partners, @_GuideWell and @tghcares.

Welcome to the cohort!

Learn more: https://t.co/hTrViVLnGV

[AMBITION ACCELERATED @AmbitionAccel]

Florida isn't just attracting the next generation of great companies. We're helping build them.

We brought together 46 innovative companies from across the country and around the world to launch the 2026 Ambition Accelerated accelerator program.

Over the next eight weeks, these founders will connect directly with expert coaching and more than 75 of Florida's leading CEOs, potential customers, investors and strategic partners to help turn innovative ideas into companies that can scale.

Four industry-focused accelerators. One statewide platform. A shared commitment to building Florida's future.

This is Ambition Accelerated.

Learn more: https://t.co/yJC4Yt55KD

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Honored to be a member of the @Speros_Florida FORGE (Florida Oncology and Radiopharmaceutical Growth Engine) coalition that received the 2026 Most Significant Innovation Award during the Annual Awards Celebration at @BioFlorida's Annual Innovation Conference in Orlando last week.

Lawrence Range II, CPA, MBA, CHFP, Business Development Director at Speros, and Jay Lebsack, Vice President of Clinical Research Operations at Moffitt Cancer Center, accepted the award on behalf of the team.

A BIG shout out to Josh Carpenter, President at Speros and Chief Integration Officer at Moffitt, and Hannah Mae Merten, Chief of Staff and Executive Director of Strategy at Speros, and the entire team at Speros for their efforts to unite a group of leading Tampa Bay institutions -- @MoffittNews and @Speros_Florida, @EmbarcCollectiv, the @USouthFlorida, and Pasco-Hernando State College. The goal is “… to build an end-to-end radiopharmaceutical ecosystem on the massive $1.5 billion, 775-acre Speros campus in Pasco Countyr, along with imaging technologist training at PHSC and nuclear pharmacy opportunities at USF.

The effort is expected to generate 4,000 jobs and $2.6 billion in statewide economic impact over the next decade” and establish the Tampa Bay region as a preeminent life sciences and healthcare hub for next-generation modalities that deliver best-in-class precision medicine. Longer-term, the coalition plans to recruit top early-stage precision medicine companies across different modalities to FORGE and help them move from drug discovery through production and clinical use to full-scale launch and growth at Speros.

For more information about the coalition, check out @anjelicamrubin's article earlier this summer in the @TBBJnewsroom here: https://t.co/G1rBFGi7fC.

“FORGE represents a transformational opportunity to position the Tampa Bay region at the forefront of one of the most promising advances in cancer care,” Speros President and Moffitt Chief Integration Officer Josh Carpenter said. “By bringing together these regional partners, we are building the talent, infrastructure and innovation ecosystem needed to accelerate next-generation radiopharmaceutical therapies.

For more info about Embarc Collective or to explore membership, visit https://t.co/PbfehqKRVF.

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Congratulations to @EmbarcCollectiv member-company @CopeNotes®, founded and led by Johnny Crowder, CRPS, CEO. Cope Notes was one of four tech companies to be named winners of the Catalyst 2026 Innovator Award from the @CTIA @WirelessFdn and @TMobile.

Catalyst is a competitive grants program for social entrepreneurs using wireless technology to deliver solutions to the challenges impacting American communities.

“CTIA Wireless Foundation’s Catalyst program highlights exceptional entrepreneurs who are demonstrating what’s possible when we leverage wireless innovation and American ingenuity,” said Ajit Pai, President of CTIA Wireless Foundation and President & CEO of CTIA. “We are excited to celebrate the Catalyst 2026 winners, a group of dynamic innovators using mobile-first solutions to improve access to workforce training and development, healthcare, and counseling in their communities.”

The first-place grant of $100,000 was awarded to Austin-based FreeWorld, an app that trains and places formerly incarcerated individuals into jobs in the trucking industry, helping to ease unemployment and driver shortages. San Francisco-based Oben Health, an app that trains barbers and hairstylists as certified Community Health Workers to screen clients for hypertension and connect them with ongoing care, was awarded the second-place grant of $50,000, and Empower Work, an SMS and RCS platform that provides peer counseling to vulnerable and low-income workers struggling in the workplace, and Tampa-based Cope Notes® were awarded third-place grants of $25,000 each.

For more information about the CTIA Wireless Foundation Catalyst 2026 Award Winners, visit https://t.co/YTABqq8skv.

Cope Notes® uses daily text messages that combine peer support, positive psychology, and digital journaling to send positive thoughts and affirmations, enabling subscribers to combat depression and anxiety and help improve mental and emotional health. As a suicide/abuse survivor, Johnny Crowder spent his formative years searching for resources to help him cope with his mental health conditions, ranging from OCD and bipolar disorder to schizophrenia. After studying psychology at the @UCF and volunteering with NAMI, Johnny wanted to combine the neuroscience principles he learned about in school with the power of peer support that changed his life in treatment. In 2017, he began sending unsolicited psychology facts, journaling prompts, and exercises to friends via text message. The response was so positive that he opened it up to the public, and the rest is history.

For more information about Cope Notes, visit https://t.co/uF4UUdUVgo.

For more info about Embarc Collective or to explore membership, visit https://t.co/PbfehqKRVF.

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🏆 Congratulations to the Speros FORGE coalition on receiving BioFlorida's 2026 Most Significant Innovation Award!

We're proud to collaborate on advancing oncology innovation and strengthening Florida's life sciences ecosystem.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/OpezZ7tUCI

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We’re excited to share this week’s #EcosystemHighlight, a series that features founders and leaders from our vast community of innovators!

This week, we’re highlighting Mathis, Co-Founder of syp!

🔗Learn more about Mathis: https://t.co/M3i4LKPJvY

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Founders from across Florida gathered in West Palm Beach for the official kickoff of Ambition Accelerated 2026

🔗 Learn more about who is participating in Ambition Accelerated and how the program is bringing Florida’s regions and industries together: https://t.co/EwfpVvutSm

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Embarc Collective is proud to serve as the Tampa Bay HealthTech track anchor for Ambition Accelerated, helping connect high-growth companies with coaching, customers, capital & industry expertise.

⭐️Read the full announcement: https://t.co/TfoHnTCHbm

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We’re excited to share this week’s #EcosystemHighlight, a series that features founders and leaders from our vast community of innovators!

This week, we’re highlighting Majiye, Co-Founder of Ingenee!

🔗Learn more about Andrew: https://t.co/e8kAGMZhFZ

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🐾 Could gene therapy offer new hope for dogs with dementia?

USF highlights Embarc Collective’s Kate Heath and her pug Ivy alongside innovative research from Blue Zone Therapeutics.

🔗 Read the full USF Health feature: https://t.co/KLcLcpKnc8

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Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company @easealertffas on securing investment from our partner @TampaBayVenture!

An exciting milestone for firefighter safety innovation and Tampa Bay’s startup ecosystem🚀

⭐️Read the @TBBJnewsroom piece here: https://t.co/J9rV9gDvQP

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We’re excited to welcome @BakerTillyItl as Embarc Collective’s newest Shared Services Partner! Baker Tilly will bring its accounting, tax, HR, payroll, advisory, and assurance expertise directly to Embarc Collective’s community.

⭐️Learn more: https://t.co/VspPI2i2WN