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Technology

  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 6, 2025
New CEO to lead expansion of Sarasota health tech company

PaceMate has named a new leader as it plans for commercial expansion.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • June 4, 2025
Fort Myers company sponsors 2 Minor League Baseball teams

The Bradenton Marauders and Fort Myers Mighty Mussels have a new corporate sponsor.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • May 30, 2025
Fort Myers adoption of AI technology brings immediate solution

In a future-is-now moment, the city of Fort Myers is embracing artificial intelligence in a big way. More high-tech advances are forthcoming.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • May 22, 2025
Tampa Electric deploying helicopters to survey powerlines

The company will use the aircraft to inspect a 1,300-mile system of transmission lines.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • May 19, 2025
Sarasota company releases app for off-road enthusiasts

Hellios Technologies has released an app for the off-road community that officials say can be adapted for adjacent markets.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon
  • May 13, 2025
$2.6B global tech firm buys Fort Myers company

Fiber Solutions has a second office in Tennessee.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Laura Lyon
  • May 8, 2025
Beck Besecker scaled $20M 3D software firm through grit, perseverance

"The reason we do this is we like to build things. That's pretty intoxicating, getting to kind of build stuff all the time." –Beck Besecker, 3D Cloud

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • May 7, 2025
Tampa senior living tech platform secures $43M in funding

The company’s valuation has increased 478% in three years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • April 30, 2025
Clearwater's KnowBe4 names new president, CEO as founder steps aside

Stu Sjouwerman, the cybersecurity firm's founder and CEO, will become the company's into executive chairman.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 30, 2025
Bradenton bioscience company invests in 3D printing technology business

The investment by Continuity Biosciences LLC into PinPrint Inc. will expand the company’s footprint from therapeutic to aesthetic and cosmetic applications.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 29, 2025
Sarasota Memorial Hospital pioneers new tech in operating room

A surgical team at Sarasota Memorial Hospital employed headsets and AI-enhanced software to increase efficiency.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • April 29, 2025
Embarc Collective launches partnership program, starting with Reliaquest

The Tampa-based startup hub's newly launched partnership program part of a plan to scale the organization to regional success.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 28, 2025
Lakewood Ranch tech company boosts 2025 revenue outlook

"Despite an uncertain macroeconomic backdrop," Roper Technologies president and CEO says, the company is poised for growth.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • April 24, 2025
Tampa cybersecurity firm raises $13M in first major funding round

Four investors participated in the round which saw firm's valuation jump 433%.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • April 18, 2025
No show dogs: Cybersecurity CEO talks $3B valuation, potential IPO

Brian Murphy details the hows and whys of getting to $3 billion in valuation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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