Embarc Collective held its 7th Glaring Gap Summit with 350 women across Florida going through the program and being educated on early-stage investing.

Embarc Collective, a 501c3 and Florida’s largest startup hub, is a central landing zone for some of the most driven and focused startup builders in Florida. Founded to address a critical gap in Florida’s innovation infrastructure, Embarc Collective provides a comprehensive platform of programming, community, and resources designed to give early-stage tech founders every possible advantage. Our globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming and access to an constantly-growing repository of startup resources and frameworks, on-demand coaching and mentorship, access to talent, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, open collab workspace, assigned offices, conference rooms and event space in downtown Tampa, and engagement with a community of 300+ founders that lead 140+ Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in healthcare and life sciences, cybersecurity and data analytics, AI and deep tech, financial and legal services, education, renewable energy and climate tech, and defense and national security, among sixty sectors. Member-companies have created 1,300+ Florida-based tech and tech-enabled jobs driving more than $100M annually in economic returns to the state and have secured $750M in funding, accounting for more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year, while also achieving a remarkable 90+% survival rate. Embarc Collective hosts 350+ events annually that draw 11,500+ participants into startup, technology, and innovation conversations in downtown Tampa. In addition, more than 20,000 professionals, including hundreds of institutional investors, visit each year to engage with high growth tech companies in our community, helping lead the way for Tampa Bay and the state of Florida on the national and international stage. For more info about Embarc Collective, to join our community, or to host an event, please visit https://embarccollective.com/.