Shore thing: City's profile as tech hub on the rise

A new branding campaign touts St. Pete as the nation's next great hotbed for startups.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. February 21, 2020
File. Chad Nuss and his sales software company, InsideOut, are part of a wave of tech firms that have started up in, or moved to, St. Petersburg.
File. Chad Nuss and his sales software company, InsideOut, are part of a wave of tech firms that have started up in, or moved to, St. Petersburg.
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The Greater St. Petersburg Area Economic Corp. wants to help position the Sunshine City as the nation’s next tech mecca. To get there, it recently unveiled a marketing campaign, Become St. Pete, aimed at luring New York- and New Jersey-based tech, data and financial services firms and workers to the area.

 

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