The Ark Invest-backed Tampa Bay Innovation Center is kicking off its ninth accelerator program tailored for early-stage B2B startups.
The program is designed to equip founders with essential skills to launch and scale innovative products, according to a statement. Throughout the accelerator, participants will receive training and mentoring in critical areas such as customer discovery, product strategy, investor readiness and market validation.
“Our program helps founders perform targeted customer discovery, identify their most likely early adopters and develop both a product and go-to-market strategy that puts them on a path to sustainable revenue,” Ken Evans, managing director of the accelerator program, said in a statement. “We recruit startup founders who have identified an opportunity to build products that improve productivity by creating or leveraging emerging technologies.”
These startups, all from the Tampa Bay area, are:
- BluOcean Innovation – SaaS product for business process optimization and forecasting
- Depth AI – Reducing human error and streamlining medical imaging for better patient care
- Job Phaze – Assisting hiring managers with better tools for candidate matching
- Pathogens.ai – Enabling agriculture labs with artificial intelligence-assisted models for pathogen detection
- Perimeter Health – Tracking variants of unknown significance in genetic testing results
- Solar Design Lab – Reducing the cost and delays in the design and engineering of solar systems
- Tampa Deep Sea – Autonomous underwater vehicles for research and marine services
- TECHG-X – Identifying risks associated with climate change and weather-related events
- TerraChat – SaaS platform for workforce and job management in the landscaping industry
“By prioritizing collaboration with local startups and corporate champions, we can further ignite job creation, attract top talent and foster wealth generation,” Tonya Elmore, president and CEO of the Tampa Bay Innovation Center, said in a statement. “These innovative companies are the cornerstone of our community’s growth.”
Founders will present their businesses to a panel of judges at the Innovation Showcase in November at the Ark Innovation Center in St. Petersburg.
