International coding bootcamp Ironhack has expanded to Tampa.
Ironhack
The Tampa Bay region has continued to rack up newcomers over the last year, from international companies expanding into the U.S. to fresh-faced entrepreneurs who decided to call the area their new home.
We’ve got the rundown of every expansion, relocation and new headquarters cropping up below.
Relocated
- Spontivly, a community-focused SaaS company, announced its intention to move from Canada to St. Petersburg in January.
Spontivly's co-founders Anthony Nagendraraj and Marissa Huggins
Spontivly
- A newly formed biotech startup chose Tampa for its U.S. headquarters in April. Naples-based private equity firm Econophy Group LLC is a majority owner in NuMedTechs, a startup that will focus on diagnosing respiratory illnesses. It moved into Tampa-based coworking space Quest Workspaces and had plans to hire a dozen employees by the end of 2023.
- Black Dog Venture Partners, an Arizona-based business accelerator and investment fund, moved to Tampa in April.
Scott Kelly, CEO and founder of Black Dog Venture Partners
Scott Kelly
- Satisfi Labs, a New York-based tech company backed by Google and MLB, quietly moved its headquarters to Tampa in May. The company counts Amalie Arena, ZooTampa and Tampa Bay Lightning among its customers.
Don White, CEO and co-founder of Satisfi Labs
Satisfi Labs
- DeliverHealth announced in early June it was moving from Madison, Wisconsin, to open a headquarters and "customer experience center" in a 10,000-square-foot space in Clearwater. It is a technology solutions provider focused on the medical space.
- United Kingdom-based marketing firm Clarify, which counts PayPal and Adobe among clients, tapped Tampa for its U.S. headquarters in July.
Clarify's U.K. office
Robyn Liebenberg
- Enovate Learning LLC, an e-learning content development company, moved its headquarters from the suburbs of Atlanta to St. Petersburg in August.
Rema Merrick, Enovate Learning LLC's owner
Rema Merrick
- Funnel Leasing, a New York-turned-work-from-anywhere company, opened a 7,000-square-foot space in Odessa in August.
Funnel Leasing's new headquarters in Odessa
Funnel Leasing
- Dieumerci Christel, the CEO and founder of an Austin-based edtech company, formally announced he relocated to the region in November. Christel founded Enlightapp in 2018 and was tapped for the Techstars Austin program in 2021.
Dieumerci Christel, CEO and founder of Enlightapp
Dieumerci Christel
Expanded
- International coding boot camp Ironhack selected Tampa as its second U.S. headquarters in February after the Spain-based company first expanded to Miami in 2017.
International coding boot camp Ironhack has expanded to Tampa.
Ironhack
- Minneapolis-based fintech firm Branch tapped Tampa for its first office expansion. The company announced in March it will set up shop in the Industrious space in Ybor City with plans to hire 20 to 30 employees in the next few years.
Part of the Branch team
Branch
- MANTA, a Prague-based global data company, chose Tampa for its U.S. headquarters. CEO Tomas Kratky “fell in love immediately” with the city and chose it for its strong tech talent pool, cost of living and ability to recruit talent from across the nation.
Tomas Kratky, CEO and founder of MANTA
MANTA
- Avanade, a Seattle-based IT firm co-founded by Microsoft and Accenture, announced in April it would open its first U.S.-based engineering hub in Tampa and expects to hire 500 people in three years.
- Sarasota-based biotech company INVO Bioscience expanded from Kansas City in April. It is the fourth location for the publicly traded company that focuses on fertility treatment. In addition to already being in Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama, and Mexico, it plans to add Tampa and San Francisco offices in the coming months.
- Chicago-based CoinFlip expanded to Tampa with its first-ever “crypto experience center.” It opened the 8,000-square-foot center in September in Sparkman Wharf.
The CoinFlip team and Mayor Jane Castor
NICOLE ABBETT
- AnyDesk, a German remote IT company, chose Tampa Bay for its U.S. headquarters — and has already rented out two offices, with plans to double its local workforce by the end of the year. It opened its Clearwater space in July and its downtown Tampa office in December.
The AnyDesk ribbon cutting in Clearwater in July
Logan Profitt
- Inpeco, a Switzerland-based health care company, tapped Tampa for its regional headquarters in September. The company moved into a 2,600-square-foot space in downtown Tampa's University of South Florida Health’s CAMLS building.
USF CAMLS
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