Tampa Bay Ventures

Tampa Bay Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Tampa, Florida, with a mission to build a vibrant, internationally recognized startup ecosystem in the Tampa Bay region by backing the area's most promising tech-enabled startups. The firm launched its first seed fund targeting $20M and oversubscribed it to roughly $27M by early 2023, with plans to invest in about 25 companies over five years. It invests from seed through Series B, with check sizes commonly cited in the $500K to $2M range, focusing on cybersecurity, e-commerce, healthcare, education technology, finance technology and hardware companies in the Tampa Bay area, and it is willing to lead rounds. The partnership combines founders, angel investors and operators. General Partner Marcus Adolfsson is a serial entrepreneur who founded Smartphone Experts and Mobile Nations, the latter sold to Future Plc for $115M; co-founder Andreas Calabrese began his career at Sweden's Capital A Partners; co-founder Tom Frederick is a multi-exit entrepreneur whose companies were acquired by Xerox and Visual Edge; and co-founder Wesley Barnett is a Lakeland-based investor active in startups and real estate. The team numbers around 14, including seven partners. Across roughly 9 to 15 portfolio companies and 17 tracked investments, holdings include Grifin, a micro-investing app that raised an $11.0M Series A in June 2025; Procoto, a Y Combinator graduate whose round the firm led; Reptrics, a customer-success platform; and Enaia. Its most recent tracked deal was Enaia on October 17, 2024. Tampa Bay Ventures anchors itself in building its regional startup ecosystem.