How To Spot Trends: Interview with Matt Certo

Matt Certo serves as CEO & Principal of Findsome & Winmore, an Orlando, Florida-based digital marketing agency. Originally called WebSolvers, the company’s first client was his alma mater, Rollins College. […]

Being A Kid-Preneur: Interview with Lillie Wilson

Lillie is an author, sales consultant, student, and philanthropist.  She is 6 years old and now that she graduated kindergarten she is going to work and helping dad with his […]

Business is my Worship: Interview with Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith serves as a Principal of Elevation Capital Group, bringing more than 15 years of extensive business experience in market evaluation, property analysis, management systems, due diligence and finance. […]

Timing and Luck: Interview with Troy Johnston

Personal Bio Troy Johnston is a Co-Founder of Seller.Tools and passionate about exponential results and automation in the Amazon and e-commerce space. He’s previously consulted for 9-figure brands in the […]

Congratulations to Capacitech Energy for Winning 2nd Place at Florida Venture Forum

Congratulations to Capacitech Energy LLC for receiving 2nd Place at the Florida Venture Forum (2019). Founded by CEO, Joe Sleppy, Capacitech Energy is an Orlando-based company that specializes in advanced energy storage technology. Capacitech […]

Neoware Studios

Neoware is a software development firm specializing in Spatial Computing and Distributed Ledger Technology. Neoware creates white labeled applications and unique protocols that enhance businesses practices with emerging technology. Augmented […]

Deepwork Capital

Investors who are Company Builders at Our Core We are a venture capital firm investing in early stage companies in Florida and surrounding regions. Our local presence allow us to engage […]

Duplicate Success: Interview with Mike Wright

Michael Wright is an attorney with over 30 years’ experience, specializing in commercial real estate investment. He established MMI Development to acquire, invest in, develop, and manage commercial real estate […]

Stage Not Age: Interview with Lilian Myers

Lilian Myers is a founder and principal with EconomyFour, a social impact organization that assists public and private sector enterprises to rethink a future of long life and life stage […]

Orlando startup scene builds momentum as Rise of Rest finalists compete for $100k

Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, is visiting cities around the country to find markets ripe with entrepreneurial talent that have been left behind by the greater tech investment community. At […]

Embrace the Change: Interview with Cathy Sawruk

Professional Experienced Principal Broker with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry in Central Florida and around the state. Specializing in both commercial and residential property as […]

O’Dang Hummus founder, Jesse Wolfe, shares his experience with entrepreneurs seeking to grow with Walmart

We received an update from local food entrepreneur Jesse Wolfe this evening, which can be seen below. It is great to see how he and his business, O’Dang Hummus, is […]

Capacitech Energy Gains Momentum after Funding from Varnadore Financial

We are excited to share that local energy startup Capacitech has received funding from Varnadore Financial. We received word about this funding from Joe Sleppy, CEO of Capacitech Energy, and learned more […]

The Philosophy of Service: Interview with Cliff Ingari

    Cliff Ingari –PRESIDENT, SimSTAFF Technical Services Cliff Ingari is President of SimSTAFF Technical Services, LLC based in Orlando, Florida.   He was the prior President of AVT Simulation where […]

WAWWE, Healthy-living App Wins 2019 UCF Joust Venture Competition

Senior Rafaela Frota developed the idea for Wawwe, Inc. (We Are What We Eat) when she was 14. Now she's achieved major praise for her nutrition-assistance app .

Orlando based PlanSource Acquired by Vista Equity Partners

Orlando, Fla. – March 25, 2019 – PlanSource, a leading provider of cloud-based benefits administration technology, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a leading investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses. Vista partners with management teams…

The Power of Persistence: Interview with Paul Ellis

Paul serves as CEO of Foundry Commercial, bringing more than 27 years of commercial real estate brokerage, development, investment, and management experience. As one of the founding members of Foundry, […]

8 finalists announced for Orlando $100,000 ‘Rise of the Rest’ competition by AOL’s Steve Case

By Marco Santana   The traveling road show that will come through Orlando this month and reward tech startup with $100,000 has named the eight finalists that will vie for the prize. Officials with former AOL CEO Steve Case’s “Rise of the Rest” tour, so-named because of Case’s belief that…

After the Sale: Interview with Richard Milam

Richard Milam Entrepreneur RPA/AI – CEO Coach – Consultant A pioneer in the Robotic Process Automation technology movement, Richard Milam brought a revolutionary operational efficiency solution to organizations worldwide with […]

Selling a Service Business: Interview with Cress Diglio

Cress V. Diglio has been a Business Intermediary since 1999. Despite being one of the youngest Brokers in the industry at 28 years old, Cress achieved immediate success. Since that […]

GuideWell Innovation Taps Kirstie McCool-Chadwick as Innovation Executive Director

GuideWell Innovation is pleased to announce that Kirstie McCool-Chadwick has joined the organization as Executive Director. Kirstie’s role will be to connect Florida’s health and wellness entrepreneurial ecosystems into the […]

The Speed of Execution: Interview with Brian Hall

Brian Hall Husband to Brenda, Father to 5 Incredible young adults, Super PawPaw to 3 Awesome Grandkids Dysfunctional Serial Entrepreneur with only a 35% Success Rate Former USAF C-130 Pilot […]

Coffee with a Cause: Interview with Ben Hoyer

Ben Hoyer is the founder and director of Downtown CREDO, a social enterprise focused on improving quality of lives by cultivating networks of meaning, impact, and community, the President/COO for […]

Nintex acquires EnableSoft, an Orlando automation company.

Nintex, which develops an intelligent automation suite used by more than 8,000 clients across 90 countries, today announced that it has acquired Orlando, Florida-based robotic process automation (RPA) provider EnableSoft for an undisclosed sum. Foxtrot’s roughly 20-person workforce will join the Nintex team “as quickly as possible,” Nintex CEO Eric Johnson said,…

When Courage Becomes Desperation: Interview with Jeff Feuer

About RepScrubs: RepScrubs provides health care facilities with time-sensitive vendor attire that improves infection prevention and vendor management protocols while reducing costs. The RepScrubs system includes real-time vendor tracking reports […]