Partner / Sponsor

Sponsor the infrastructure
the whole ecosystem reads.

Not a logo on a page. A position inside the data layer.

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The Shift

You don't buy visibility.
You produce a story
worth seeing.

The Old Model

Logo. Booth. Hope.

Traditional sponsorship is a passive transaction. You pay for placement — a banner on a site, a name on a lanyard, a logo in the corner of a slide deck no one saved — and then you wait for the awareness to translate into something meaningful. It rarely does in a way anyone can measure.

The ROI question gets deferred to a spreadsheet no one opens. Your brand appeared somewhere. Whether it mattered is a different story — one nobody ends up telling.

Catalyst Vantage

Story. Distribution. Position.

Catalyst Vantage is a content production and strategic distribution framework built for organizations that want to be remembered, not just seen. Your investment in the Tampa Bay ecosystem becomes a real narrative — shot cinematically, told from your team's perspective, and distributed across social, YouTube, Google Ads, and streaming TV.

You are not adjacent to the ecosystem. You are inside it. Your story runs alongside the Map, the newsletter, and the quarterly report — the tools founders, investors, and civic leaders open because they actually need to, every week.

Community Partners
City of Tampa Visit Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Tech Week Entrepreneur Development Initiative Entrepreneur Collaborative Center IEEE Computer Society at USF
Why This Works

A position competitors
cannot buy their way into later.

The organizations that back ecosystem infrastructure early build the relationships, credibility, and recognition that compounds as Tampa Bay's tech economy grows. Here is exactly what that position looks like.

01

You live inside the tools, not beside them.

The Map, the weekly newsletter, and the quarterly ecosystem intelligence report are not content — they are infrastructure that Tampa Bay's founders, investors, and operators depend on. Your name is embedded in the thing they open, not in an ad running next to it. That distinction matters more than it sounds when you are trying to build a reputation that sticks.

02

Produced content outlasts the moment it started at.

A Catalyst Vantage production tells the real story of your organization's commitment to Tampa Bay — your people, your mission, your investment in the builders around you. That content lives on YouTube, runs as a pre-roll, surfaces in Google searches, and airs on streaming TV. A banner impression lasts a second. A well-told story keeps earning attention without additional spend, for years.

03

The rooms are real, and they remember who showed up.

HyLo Inno's events and community programs put you directly in the same space as the founders, investors, civic leaders, and corporate decision-makers who are building Tampa Bay's next decade. These are people who don't respond to cold outreach but do build genuine loyalty to organizations that consistently show up for the community. You cannot retrofit that credibility after the fact.

04

Tampa Bay is compounding. The window is open.

Venture capital investment, corporate relocations, and talent inflows to the Tampa Bay region are growing across every measurable dimension. The organizations that plant their flag in the ecosystem now — before it is the obvious move — get the credit, the first-mover relationships, and the regional reputation that late arrivals spend years trying to acquire. That window will not stay open indefinitely.

The Network

In good company.

HyLo Inno works alongside the civic institutions and community organizations shaping Tampa Bay's innovation landscape. Sponsors step into a network already in motion.

Tampa Bay Tech Week Visit Tampa Bay City of Tampa South Box Capital Prosper Firm Bay Innovation Group 813 Tech Day 727 Tech Day Entrepreneur Collaborative Center Gulf Works Lab Otriqen IEEE Computer Society at USF
What You're Reaching

The ecosystem
reads this.

Sponsoring HyLo Inno's infrastructure means your name lives inside the tools, events, and reports that Tampa Bay's founders, investors, and ecosystem builders actually use — not alongside them.

59+ Active ecosystem nodes on the Map
1,765+ Events tracked and published
5 Recurring programs in market
Regional Distribution across Tampa Bay, Hillsborough & Pinellas
Catalyst Vantage

Four positions.

Signal

$2,500 / Event

The entry position. Your name and brand in the room where Tampa Bay's ecosystem gathers — on-screen at the event, in HyLo's pre- and post-event newsletter coverage, and in social content tied to the moment. A meaningful, visible presence exactly when founders and investors are paying attention.

  • Logo & name in event materials
  • Newsletter mention (pre + post event)
  • Social media tagging
  • On-screen brand placement
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Story Stakes

$5,000 / Event

Your story enters the narrative. A short produced piece — 30 to 60 seconds — about your company's connection to the Tampa Bay ecosystem, shot at or around the event and included in HyLo's post-event content distribution across social channels. You are not just in the room. You have a voice in it.

  • Everything in Signal
  • Short-form video production (30–60 sec)
  • Post-event social distribution
  • Featured placement in event recap content
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Impact Features

$10,000 / Event

A full narrative about your organization's investment in Tampa Bay, produced cinematically and distributed across HyLo's channels. This is the content that lives on — on YouTube, in social feeds, embedded in quarterly reporting. A story with real reach that keeps earning attention well beyond the event that anchored it.

  • Everything in Story Stakes
  • Full-length cinematic production
  • YouTube + multi-channel distribution
  • Featured in quarterly intelligence report
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Catalyst Cinema

$25,000 / Annual

The flagship. A year-long story arc developed with your team and carried across every event, channel, and program HyLo Inno runs. You are the presenting partner — the organization whose commitment to Tampa Bay's ecosystem is documented, distributed, and compounded across twelve months of infrastructure the whole region reads.

  • Everything in Impact Features, year-round
  • Google Ads + streaming TV distribution
  • Presenting partner placement — all programs
  • Feature in all four quarterly reports
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The Offer

Sponsors back the thing everyone uses and no one else is building.

That is the entire pitch. Everything else is detail we'll walk through together.

Questions, Answered

Good to know.

What is Catalyst Vantage?
Catalyst Vantage is HyLo Inno's partnership framework. Instead of logo placement, partners get narrative-driven video content about their real investment in the Tampa Bay ecosystem, produced by HyLo and distributed across social, YouTube, Google Ads, and streaming TV.
How is this different from traditional sponsorship?
Traditional sponsorship sells visibility and hopes you feel something. Catalyst Vantage produces a story worth seeing and puts your name inside the data layer the whole ecosystem reads — a position competitors cannot buy their way into later.
What are the Catalyst Vantage tiers?
Four positions: Signal at $2,500 per event, Story Stakes at $5,000 per event, Impact Features at $10,000 per event, and Catalyst Cinema at $25,000 annually — the flagship, a year-long story arc across every channel HyLo runs.
What does sponsoring the Map or the Intelligence fund?
The Map and the quarterly reporting are public goods with a private cost: keeping 59+ locations and 1,765+ events live, accurate, and growing, and producing the benchmark the region relies on. Sponsors fund that infrastructure.