Black Friday is fast approaching (even if it is virtual this year), and with Christmas and Hanukkah just around the corner, it is the perfect time to get all your holiday shopping done for the loved ones on your list.
We wanted to help ease that holiday stress, all while helping you support local — which this year, is more important than ever. We rounded up products and services from tech and startup companies right in the Tampa Bay region. With this many options, you're bound to check off everyone on your list.
For the person voted 'Best Dressed' in high school
Modern Casual: The e-commerce store offers 60 billion potential custom shoe combinations, giving customers the opportunity to change up to 14 details per shoe. Read more here.
Court Bottoms: Workout clothes made from sustainable materials sounds like a win-win all around. Learn more about the Tampa-based company here.
EyeBOGO: The company aims to bring inexpensive items to the masses, but with a twist: His application measures the distance of your pupils and will recommend frames that best fit your face. Check out the company's whole story here.
For your friend with a 'Namaste' tank top
Conscious Coconut: The Dunedin-based company makes high-end coconut oil wellness products, which are USDA organic and fair trade certified. The best part? For every product sold, the company donates a meal to a child in need. Learn more about its pivot during the pandemic here.
Peerfit: The Tampa-based company offers a monthly subscription that allows the user access to gyms and fitness studios for a monthly fee. There's even a way to get your grandparents checked off your list: Peerfit Move offers a Medicare Advantage fitness program for senior citizens. See the latest from the company here.
Solu Tone Therapy System: The Tampa-based company has created a gadget with a simple mission: three minutes of listening, twice daily can decrease stress and anxiety.
RelieveIt: The USF-born product offers a line of plant-derived, anti-inflammatory products sprays and gels perfected from the founder's great-great grandmother. It was also named one of HSN's "The Big Find" items, if you want to get ahead of the curve. Learn more about them here.
For your friend with the foodie Instagram account
Buzz Pop Cocktails: The company has a line of alcoholic-infused popsicles, which can be shipped by the variety pack across the nation. It's also launched its "Soothe Ice" line, which is CBD-infused frozen treats. See what they're up to here.
Cirkul: The former Boston-based company is now headquartered in Tampa, making innovative water bottles for the masses. The shatterproof, BPA-free bottle is designed to fit in flavor cartridges, which can be controlled to dispense more or less flavor with a simple twist. The cartridges range across 43 flavors and six lines, including caffeinated, teas, coffees and electrolyte packages. All blends are zero calories, no sugar and no artificial flavors. Learn more about the company — including its recent $6 million raise — here.
MADE Coffee: The Clearwater-based company, well known for its cold brew in a can, also sells "brew in a box," coffee beans and merchandise. Besides being delicious, it's also backed by rapper Pitbull and donated its products to health care workers in need.
Brick Street Farms: The company provides its wholesale items to places like Oxford Exchange and the Don Cesar, but if you want a little of the fancier things in life in your own home, they also sell products like house-made balsamic vinaigrette and cinnamon peanut butter with chia seeds. Learn more here.
For the person impossible to shop for (skip the Starbucks gift card this year)
Transitions Candles: Chosen as one of our social impact startups you need to know in 2019, the organization is more than a candle company. Transition Candles helps female high school graduates learn the candle business with a paid internship while also having access to help with resumes, interview skills and mentoring.
OttLite: We all realized just how important good lighting is when we all were forced to be on Zoom happy hours weekly in March. Enter OttLite, an LED lighting company that mimics the sun's natural lighting. It sells everything from desk lamps (with a charging station) to LED makeup mirrors. Learn more about the company here.
GuestWings: Vacations are still out for the most part, but if you know someone badly in need of a getaway, what better solution than an Airstream? It originally launched as a solution for houseguests, but can also be used if you just want a change of scenery from the same four walls you've been looking at the last eight months. Learn more about the company's recent pivot here.
Editor's Note: Tampa Bay Inno independently selects gift guide recommendations based on its continuous reporting on the Tampa Bay startup ecosystem and other research. It doesn't receive any affiliate link compensation or other considerations.
