EP 94 St. Pete X Podcast: Andreas Calabrese - TampaBay.Ventures 9-28-23

Join host Joe Hamilton for SPx, a St. Petersburg focused podcast featuring the city’s brightest business people, civic leaders and citizens.

The venture capital scene continues to evolve and emerge in Tampa Bay. Perhaps the most potent accelerant to that evolution is TampaBay.ventures. The founding group saw that tech startups are undervalued in Tampa Bay for a number of reasons. First they saw a lack of traditional funding sources locally, but also nationally. While anyone can open up shop anywhere and reach the world via the internet, that same expansiveness is not yet pervasive in funders who still operate under traditional parameters that keep them from looking to places like Tampa Bay. Secondly - dollars go further here. With that same logic - that businesses here can reach anyone in the world - investments made in Tampa Bay go further because costs are lower. After spending considerable energy searching for all the reasons not open a fund in Tampa Bay, the evidence was to compelling and TampaBay.Ventures was born. Andreas Calabrese, the man who runs the day to day operations for the fund is our guest on episode 94 of St. Pete X. #SPX Stpetecatalyst #joehamilton #Andreas Calabrese #tampabay.ventures #tampabay #radio #radiostpete