Tampa Bay WaVE

Established in 2008, Tampa Bay WaVE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship within the tech sector. It supports early-stage companies operating in technology, web, mobile, fintech, health tech, and cybersecurity sectors.

Linda Olson

Founder, President, Board Member and CEO

46 past transactions

Ovum Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Ovum Health is a digital health company specializing in on-demand, virtual fertility care and clinical support. It serves over 40 million insured individuals through its enterprise and insurance contracts. The company offers a free patient engagement platform, FertilityAnswers, available on iOS and Android, which acts as a digital entry point to its services. Ovum Health provides personalized healthcare, utilizing medical software, clinical decision support, advanced lab testing, and analytics to diagnose and treat health conditions that impact fertility, with the aim of reducing maternity costs by minimizing complications such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and cesarean sections.

Five to Nine

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Five to Nine is a company that offers a culture engagement solution aimed at enhancing workplace connectivity and inclusion. It has developed an online employee engagement platform that facilitates the management and evaluation of both virtual and in-person internal programs. This platform integrates various workflows and gathers event analytics and feedback, allowing organizations to assess employee participation and sentiments effectively. By enabling human resource teams to create communities of interest, Five to Nine plays a significant role in promoting inclusion and improving the overall employee experience within organizations.

NeuroXR

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
NeuroXR develops immersive virtual reality applications for rehabilitation and pain management. Its platform delivers self‑guided, gamified therapy that uses neuroscience‑based techniques such as mirror therapy and hand tracking. The system enables individuals with upper‑limb injuries or neuropathic pain to engage in accessible, home‑based recovery that complements traditional clinical treatments.

Megaminds

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Megaminds is an educational platform that offers child care services to kids whose parents work.

ContextQA

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
ContextQA is an AI-driven platform for end-to-end software testing automation. It enables no-code test case generation, auto-healing, visual regression, and root-cause analysis. The platform supports multiple types of testing, including functional, API, accessibility, security, performance, cross-browser, and cross-device tests. It integrates with major platforms like JIRA, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and offers webhook integration.

Abacus Exchange

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Abacus Exchange is a disruptive EdTech & FinTech startup revolutionizing financial education and access to capital markets for Spanish-speaking individuals in the USA and Latin America; Our platform provides accessible, practical, and comprehensive courses that teach users how to navigate the stock market, build wealth, and invest in their future.

360 Direct Video

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
360 Direct Video is a woman-owned business that focuses on the needs and wants of the deaf community while also training them in sign language.

Spatially Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Spatially Health is a technology company based in Coral Gables, Florida, founded in 2019 by Hillit Meidar-Alfi. The company specializes in spatial analytics tailored for the healthcare industry, enabling organizations to harness spatial intelligence for data enrichment and analysis. Its platform offers in-depth evaluations of healthcare providers across various geographic locations, allowing for comprehensive comparisons of population demographics and health outcomes under different providers. By aligning individuals with appropriate service providers, Spatially Health helps healthcare organizations uncover the critical connections and relationships between communities and their healthcare decisions, ultimately driving more informed population health strategies.

Service Near

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Service Near operates an on‑demand mobile application that connects consumers with local, pre‑vetted professionals for a range of home maintenance and improvement tasks. The platform provides a single interface to browse, book, and manage services, ensuring quality and convenience for users who wish to schedule and oversee all home care activities in one place.

Healp

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Healp develops a patient-matching application and community that connects individuals with shared health conditions to clinical trials and research opportunities. Users can create patient profiles, access personalized trial information, and participate in a supportive community to share experiences. The platform matches users to relevant trials and provides insights, helping patients make informed decisions while supporting pharmaceutical companies in streamlining recruitment and advancing medical research.

Haptic (WearWorks)

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Haptic (WearWorks), a B2B SaaS company creating a universal language through touch. We have patented the haptic navigation technology, which made history. Haptic guided the first runner who is blind in the NYC Marathon with their HapticNav app.  Haptic is redefining inclusive mobility. Our patented technology uses tactile communication to guide users through subtle vibrations, offering a seamless, screen-free, ears-free experience. This empowers all users—especially those with visual impairments—to navigate independently. Haptic is revolutionizing inclusive technology. Our patented HapticNav tool transforms how we navigate the world, offering a hands-free, eyes-free experience through the power of touch. It empowers thousands, especially those with visual impairments, to reclaim their independence and live screen-free.

WISE Cities

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
WISE Cities categorizes companies to assist clients in locating relevant businesses and also develops a senior support platform that connects older adults with services, community centers, government programs, and social events, enabling them to live independently and remain active in their communities.

indeHealth

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
indeHealth serves as a vital intermediary between students and universities, providing a comprehensive healthcare management platform that puts students at the center of their healthcare journey.

Forward Security

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Forward Security is a team of seasoned security professionals specializing in application and cloud security, DevSecOps, and security training. They serve fast-growing startups and medium-sized enterprises, particularly in Fintech, Health Tech, eCommerce, and technology sectors. With experience working for global organizations like HSBC, Intel, and Motorola, they provide tailored security solutions to help businesses build with confidence.

Avertro

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Avertro specializes in transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) into a proactive threat defense capability. Its CyberHQ® platform integrates real-time security telemetry, enabling organizations to simulate threat scenarios, quantify risk, automate compliance reporting, and maintain audit readiness.

Hook Security

Series A in 2022
Hook Security is a cybersecurity training company that helps organizations build awareness and resilience against manipulation by technology. The company provides phishing simulations, social engineering testing, and security awareness training with micro-learning, reporting, and integrations into existing cybersecurity stacks, including email client plugins and APIs. It trains employees to recognize counterfeit emails and manipulation at the point of use, using psychology and neuroscience to improve retention. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Hook Security offers policy guidance for email and on-demand simulated attacks to reinforce secure behavior across the workforce.

Smart Eye Technology

Smart Eye Technology specializes in biometric security solutions for protecting confidential information. Its platform employs facial recognition and voice verification for multi-factor authentication, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data on screens.

Undaunted Development

Undaunted Development develops interactive visual tools to make coding faster and more intuitive for cybersecurity professionals and developers.

LockDown Labs

LockDown Labs is an AI platform connecting security and development teams to fix application vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party libraries.

Gaming Zero Trust

Gaming Zero Trust is an AI-powered platform centralizing cybersecurity policies, assessing risks, and automating policy implementation.

Opsbeacon

Opsbeacon, established by ex-Cisco FedRAMP security engineers, specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Their platform employs autonomous AI agents to simplify complex security operations, enabling seamless coordination across various security tools. By transforming intricate security tasks into straightforward AI conversations, Opsbeacon amplifies human capabilities, enhancing security teams' effectiveness and efficiency, and reducing cyberattack risks.

Mendara

Mendara creates custom AI solutions to set a new standard for secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

Verisoul

Verisoul offers an AI-driven software platform that helps businesses combat fake and bot users. It analyzes risk signals such as network, browser, device, and user behavior to differentiate real from fake users.

Undaunted Development

Undaunted Development develops interactive visual tools to make coding faster and more intuitive for cybersecurity professionals and developers.

Gaming Zero Trust

Gaming Zero Trust is an AI-powered platform centralizing cybersecurity policies, assessing risks, and automating policy implementation.

Guardare

Guardare is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that automates complex security tasks, provides actionable insights, and streamlines compliance across an organization’s people, devices, and applications. It delivers a unified, single-pane-of-glass view that combines AI-driven analytics with expert human insights to improve visibility into critical assets, proactively identify and prioritize threats, mitigate risks, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing the existing security stack for higher ROI.

HACKERverse®

HACKERverse® is the world’s first AI-Powered POC Platform for Cybersecurity SaaS Vendors.

HACKERverse®

HACKERverse® is the world’s first AI-Powered POC Platform for Cybersecurity SaaS Vendors.

Smart Eye Technology

Smart Eye Technology specializes in biometric security solutions for protecting confidential information. Its platform employs facial recognition and voice verification for multi-factor authentication, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data on screens.

Breacher.ai

Breacher.ai develops deepfake cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from AI-driven threats such as deepfake audio, video, and SMS phishing. The company offers a fully managed service that combines micro-curriculum training, simulations, testing, and awareness programs with deepfake detection, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Its platform integrates with existing security measures to protect employees, assets, and reputation, while providing ongoing reports and a channel for reporting suspicious messages, including phishing attempts on mobile devices.

Fairo

Fairo provides the value of a responsible AI expert consultant through a SaaS platform that speaks the team's language.

ZoraSafe

ZoraSafe develops an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that provides real-time protection and educational tools. The platform offers security measures against online threats and interactive learning experiences to enhance digital literacy, enabling educational institutions to navigate the digital world with enhanced security and knowledge.

Verisoul

Verisoul offers an AI-driven software platform that helps businesses combat fake and bot users. It analyzes risk signals such as network, browser, device, and user behavior to differentiate real from fake users.

Kriptos

Kriptos is a technology company that specializes in enhancing cybersecurity strategies for organizations. It offers an AI-driven platform designed to classify and manage unstructured data, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, and other formats, which typically comprise 80% of a company's information. The platform provides real-time insights into data discovery and classification across historical, new, and modified documents, analyzing over 1,000 variables per document. It assigns visual labels to data based on its sensitivity level, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity policies and strengthening compliance with regulations like ISO 27001, PCI, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, SOC2, among others. Kriptos seamlessly integrates with existing cybersecurity tools for enhanced data protection and risk management.

Breacher.ai

Breacher.ai develops deepfake cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from AI-driven threats such as deepfake audio, video, and SMS phishing. The company offers a fully managed service that combines micro-curriculum training, simulations, testing, and awareness programs with deepfake detection, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Its platform integrates with existing security measures to protect employees, assets, and reputation, while providing ongoing reports and a channel for reporting suspicious messages, including phishing attempts on mobile devices.

Clox AI

Document intelligence platform that detects fraud in financial documents and automate workflows

LockDown Labs

LockDown Labs is an AI platform connecting security and development teams to fix application vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party libraries.

Mendara

Mendara creates custom AI solutions to set a new standard for secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

ZoraSafe

ZoraSafe develops an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that provides real-time protection and educational tools. The platform offers security measures against online threats and interactive learning experiences to enhance digital literacy, enabling educational institutions to navigate the digital world with enhanced security and knowledge.

Cyntegra

Cyntegra is a company focused on enhancing cyber resilience through its innovative network security platform. This platform is designed to eliminate the need for ransomware payments and mitigate business disruptions caused by cyber threats. By enabling rapid recovery from ransomware and malware attacks, Cyntegra helps clients protect their critical infrastructure while ensuring that business and customer data remain secure. The company's solutions allow organizations to maintain operational continuity and effectively manage the risks associated with cyber disruptions, ultimately enhancing the value of their data and processing capabilities.

Cyntegra

Cyntegra is a company focused on enhancing cyber resilience through its innovative network security platform. This platform is designed to eliminate the need for ransomware payments and mitigate business disruptions caused by cyber threats. By enabling rapid recovery from ransomware and malware attacks, Cyntegra helps clients protect their critical infrastructure while ensuring that business and customer data remain secure. The company's solutions allow organizations to maintain operational continuity and effectively manage the risks associated with cyber disruptions, ultimately enhancing the value of their data and processing capabilities.

Kriptos

Kriptos is a technology company that specializes in enhancing cybersecurity strategies for organizations. It offers an AI-driven platform designed to classify and manage unstructured data, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, and other formats, which typically comprise 80% of a company's information. The platform provides real-time insights into data discovery and classification across historical, new, and modified documents, analyzing over 1,000 variables per document. It assigns visual labels to data based on its sensitivity level, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity policies and strengthening compliance with regulations like ISO 27001, PCI, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, SOC2, among others. Kriptos seamlessly integrates with existing cybersecurity tools for enhanced data protection and risk management.

Fairo

Fairo provides the value of a responsible AI expert consultant through a SaaS platform that speaks the team's language.

Guardare

Guardare is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that automates complex security tasks, provides actionable insights, and streamlines compliance across an organization’s people, devices, and applications. It delivers a unified, single-pane-of-glass view that combines AI-driven analytics with expert human insights to improve visibility into critical assets, proactively identify and prioritize threats, mitigate risks, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing the existing security stack for higher ROI.

Opsbeacon

Opsbeacon, established by ex-Cisco FedRAMP security engineers, specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Their platform employs autonomous AI agents to simplify complex security operations, enabling seamless coordination across various security tools. By transforming intricate security tasks into straightforward AI conversations, Opsbeacon amplifies human capabilities, enhancing security teams' effectiveness and efficiency, and reducing cyberattack risks.

Clox AI

Document intelligence platform that detects fraud in financial documents and automate workflows
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