Tampa Bay Startups and VC Firms in 2026: ReliaQuest, ConnectWise, Florida Funders
Tampa Bay venture map in 2026 — ReliaQuest’s $3.4B round, ConnectWise, Kforce, plus Florida Funders and Tampa Bay Wave. Not Miami’s LatAm gateway.
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Tampa Bay venture map in 2026 — ReliaQuest’s $3.4B round, ConnectWise, Kforce, plus Florida Funders and Tampa Bay Wave. Not Miami’s LatAm gateway.
St. Louis’s venture map in 2026 — Geneoscopy, CoverCress, Allotera Therapeutics, plus BioGenerator Ventures and Cultivation Capital.
Seattle enterprise venture map in 2026 — Madrona, Founders' Co-op, PSL, Flying Fish, Voyager, and Ascend as local HQ funds, plus national firms active in Seattle deals.
Directory-backed map of Seattle / Bellevue / Kent startups — Apptio, Temporal, MotherDuck, Chestnut, XBOW, Overland AI, and more — with HQ honesty and linked /fund/ investors.
A founder shortlist of Bay Area venture firms in our directory — Sequoia, a16z, Benchmark, Greylock, Khosla, and seed specialists — with stage focus, thesis, and honest HQ notes.
Santa Barbara–Goleta’s venture map in 2026 — AppFolio (APPF), Sonos (SONO), Apeel Sciences, Transphorm → Renesas, plus SBVP, ScOp, and Entrada Ventures.