Coworking venture looks to grow with startup lab, venture capital arm

Southwest Florida entrepreneur Brian Samelson is proud of how he built a multimillion-dollar business — pioneering a Software-as-a-Service subscription model for maintenance management — by bootstrapping it. He started the company, eMaint, in Philadelphia in 1986 and sold it to a Fortune 500 company in 2016.

‘Realistically, we’re not going to be Silicon Valley tomorrow. But this is an opportunity to bring more technology companies together.’ Alex Allen, Two39 Group