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The HyLo Inno Map · Tampa Bay, FL

Hyper Local Innovation & Investments Map

A live map of Tampa Bay's innovation economy. The organizations, startups, capital, and events moving the region forward, in one place, with the resources to help you act on what you find.

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140+Organizations
130+Startups
59Mapped Locations
4,900+Events This Year

Counts from the live map, October 2026. Always on and growing.

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Click or tap the map to start exploring; until then, scrolling moves the page, not the map. Inside, choose ORG MAP, ORGANIZATIONS, EVENTS, or STARTUPS, then open a listing for details.

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Missing an organization or event? Use SUGGEST ORG or SUGGEST EVENT inside the map.

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Resources

Found it on the map?
Here's what helps next.

Support for Tampa Bay founders, small businesses, and builders, from the organizations on the map. Each resource is run by the organization listed with it.

Featured Resource

Regional Connector Partner · Research & Commercialization

Florida High Tech Corridor

The Florida High Tech Corridor is an economic development initiative of the University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, and University of Florida. It connects companies with research and commercialization resources that turn technology into products and growth.

Exploring federal R&D funding?

FL FAST provides free SBIR/STTR guidance and resources to eligible Florida small businesses pursuing federal research and development funding.

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  • Strategic Partner
  • Talent & Tech Community
  • Free Events

IEEE Computer Society at USF

Student branch chapter · University of South Florida

A student-led tech organization running 13+ professional development events and workshops each semester, an industry mentorship program, and TechX, its annual conference. Every major and background is welcome, and no membership is required for events.

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About the HyLo Inno Map Initiative

You can't invest in what you can't see.

Tampa Bay's innovation economy is real and growing fast. It also lives in fragments.

Founders, investors, operators, and newcomers hear that something is happening here, but no single place shows where, who is building it, or where they fit. The HyLo Inno Map brings it into one view: the organizations, startups, workspaces, capital, and events that make up the region's innovation economy, kept live and always on.

The Map is a HyLo Inno initiative. HyLo Inno (Hyper Local Investments and Innovation) is a subdivision and movement of GROW CEO (Generating Revenue Opportunities and Wellness), shaping the strategic development of the Tampa Bay ecosystem through events, accelerators, incubators, content, and data. Tampa Bay Tech Week is a catalyst event of the movement, with Tampa Bay Tech Week (The Bay Inno Group) and South Box Capital as primary strategic partners.

  • Startup FundingWhere new capital is landing, and at what stage.
  • Jobs & WorkforceWhere hiring and talent density are concentrating.
  • University & ResearchThe institutional engine behind the pipeline.
  • Real Estate & InfrastructureThe physical footprint of the ecosystem and how it grows.
  • Exits & AcquisitionsThe moments that prove the model works.
  • Policy & RegulatoryThe public-side conditions shaping all of it.

From a map to an investment signal.

Every location and event is a data point. Tracked over time, they show where capital is flowing, where talent is gathering, which corridors are heating up, and which institutions are doing the quiet work that builds an economy. Each quarter, HyLo Inno will translate that data into a Tampa Bay Ecosystem Report: a consistent, hyper-local benchmark for founders, investors, institutions, and civic leaders.

Back the infrastructure.

The Map is a public good with a private cost. Keeping it live, accurate, and growing takes real resources. We are inviting a focused group of sponsors to fund it. Sponsorship is a position in the data layer the whole ecosystem reads, not a logo on a page.

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The people behind it

Built in Tampa Bay.

// Built by the Team
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Regional Connector Partner
Florida High Tech Corridor (opens in a new tab)

Florida High Tech Corridor

Connecting Tampa Bay companies with research, commercialization, and SBIR/STTR support through the HyLo Inno Map.

floridahightech.com (opens in a new tab)
Strategic Partners
IEEE Computer Society at USF Tampa Bay Tech Week South Box Capital