Acceleration Machine

Sarasota-Bradenton entrepreneurs and executives have lamented for years how the business community lacks gazelles.

Dan Miller and Chris Abbott, who have independently started and sold several local businesses, from a mobile phone marketing company to a property management firm, want to alter that perception. Miller and Abbott are two of the founders behind the Abbeton Accelerator Fund, an innovative local business investment pool.

“This isn't about investing in companies,” says Miller. “It's about investing in ideas.”