Support & Community
Coworking spaces, service providers, corporate innovation arms and community organizations.
Coworking 9
1909
Nonprofit coworking space and entrepreneur-support organization for founders and small-business owners in Palm Beach County.
Canvs
Nonprofit coworking space and entrepreneurial community for tech startups in downtown Orlando.
CIC Miami
An innovation campus and coworking hub in downtown Miami.
Collective Ventures
A downtown Fort Lauderdale coworking space and startup incubator with an on-site cafe.
General Provision
A coworking club for Fort Lauderdale's founder and creative community.
Jacksonville Innovation Hub
A coworking and maker space giving Jacksonville founders workspace, fabrication labs, mentorship, and an in-house accelerator.
Station 2 Innovation
Bradenton coworking space and business-incubation center supporting early-stage entrepreneurs.
The LAB Miami
Wynwood coworking and innovation hub that hosts Miami's dual-use and defense accelerator programs.
Venture X
A Florida-headquartered coworking and flexible-office franchise with locations across the state.
Service Provider 20
Benchmark International
Global M&A advisory firm
Brixey & Meyer
Accounting/advisory firm (Tom O'Neil Tampa lead)
Carta
Cap-table/equity platform
Disco
Community/LMS platform Embarc uses for its members' site and event registration.
DualForce Labs
Miami company building secure marketplace and integration infrastructure for vetted defense and dual-use technologies.
EX3 Labs
Digital tech studio (Adam Wisniewski CEO)
Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Florida Technology
A state-created nonprofit providing company-building and seed funding to university-derived startups.
Florida SBDC at Eastern Florida State College
No-cost small business consulting and training for Brevard County, part of the Florida SBDC Network.
Florida SBDC at Florida Gulf Coast University
The Small Business Development Center providing no-cost consulting to small businesses across five Southwest Florida counties.
Florida Trend Media Company
State business media (Florida 500 list)
Gunster
A Florida law firm with an emerging-companies and venture practice.
Hill Ward Henderson
Tampa law firm
Hypepotamus
Southeast startup media platform covering FL founders (IYA Cares feature).
J.P. Morgan
Global bank
Lab22c
Miami innovation consultancy and ecosystem connector that co-leads the local DoD-backed Rapid Innovation Accelerator.
Silicon Valley Bank
Venture bank
St. Pete Catalyst
St. Petersburg startup/tech online media covering Embarc member companies.
Stifel
Investment bank / venture debt
Tampa Bay Business Journal / Tampa Bay Inno
Primary local business/tech media covering Embarc and Tampa Bay startups (Anjelica Rubin).
weVENTURE Women's Business Center
SBA-funded women's business center at Florida Tech offering no-cost counseling, training, and the IGNITE 360 mentoring program.
Corporate Innovation 13
A-LIGN
Tampa cybersecurity/compliance unicorn (Hg-backed)
AccelerOnc Studio
Moffitt Cancer Center's venture studio building oncology-focused startups, billed as the first U.S. venture studio dedicated to oncology.
CDW
Corporate partner hosting the CDW Innovation Lab at Embarc for founder workshops.
Google for Startups
Corporate accelerator/cloud program
GuideWell
Healthcare organization supporting Ambition Accelerated / Tampa Bay HealthTech track.
GuideWell Innovation Center
Corporate-backed healthcare innovation hub and accelerator in Orlando's Lake Nona Medical City.
Orlando Health Ventures
Orlando Health's corporate venture arm
Palantir Technologies
Data/defense-tech firm relocating HQ to West Palm Beach ('Gold Coast')
Related Ross 
Partner
Stephen Ross real-estate firm
ReliaQuest
Tampa cybersecurity unicorn ($3.4B)
Tampa General Hospital
Academic health system
TGH Ventures
TGH's corporate venture arm
Vinik Sports Group / Tampa Bay Lightning
Jeff Vinik's sports/holding group
Nonprofit / Community 26
Accelerate Brevard: Chamber of Innovation
Brevard County's chamber of innovation supporting the Space Coast business, tech, and startup community.
BioFlorida
Statewide membership association representing Florida's life sciences industry across biopharma, medtech, digital health, and health systems.
Build In SE
Southeast venture-data partner
Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention
A Gainesville museum and foundation that inspires and equips future inventors and entrepreneurs and runs the national Cade Prize competition.
Endeavor Miami
Nonprofit affiliate of the global Endeavor network that selects and supports high-impact, scale-stage entrepreneurs in South Florida.
Florida Chamber of Commerce / Foundation
State business chamber
Florida Community Innovation
A civic-technology nonprofit engaging student innovators to build public-service tech for Floridians.
Florida Venture Forum
Statewide venture-capital association
ITEN WIRED
Pensacola nonprofit tech community hosting the Southeast's annual ITEN WIRED / TechNet CyberCoast summit.
JAX Bridges
A free JAX Chamber entrepreneurial development program helping small and medium businesses build strategy and access capital.
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay
Youth education/workforce nonprofit
National Center for Simulation
Nonprofit consortium promoting the modeling, simulation and training industry from Orlando's Central Florida Research Park.
National Entrepreneur Center
Shared facility in Orlando housing small-business resource partners that offer free coaching and support to entrepreneurs.
Realize Bradenton
A Bradenton nonprofit whose free Start-Up Circle program trains aspiring entrepreneurs to launch small businesses.
Refresh Miami
A community organization covering and convening Miami's tech ecosystem.
South Florida Tech Hub
Regional nonprofit tech association, formerly the Palm Beach Tech Association, uniting South Florida's technology and startup ecosystem.
Space Coast FabLab
Nonprofit makerspace and Fab Lab network member offering prototyping tools across the Space Coast.
St. Petersburg Innovation District
A nonprofit-led innovation district in St. Petersburg anchoring life sciences, marine science, and health research institutions.
startGNV
A nonprofit that grows Greater Gainesville's startup, tech, and biotech innovation ecosystem.
Startup Grind Fort Lauderdale
The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the global Startup Grind entrepreneur community.
SWFL Inc.
The regional chamber of commerce for Southwest Florida, connecting businesses across Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties.
Synapse Florida
Statewide innovation nonprofit (Andy Hafer) running the annual Synapse Summit.
Tampa Bay Tech
Regional tech industry association (Meghan O'Keefe ED)
The Florida Council of 100 Partner
Statewide business-leader nonprofit (CEOs of 200+ companies) leading the Ambition Accelerated platform and partnering with Embarc.
The Spring Entrepreneur Hub
Pensacola's 'front door' entrepreneur hub offering confidential team-based mentoring to founders.
Urban League of Broward County Entrepreneurship Center
A nonprofit entrepreneurship center providing business services and capital in historically underserved communities.