Florida Seed Capital Guide

This is a working list of places Florida founders can look for early money and early help. It has 67 entries: angel groups, venture funds that write early checks, statewide programs, accelerators and incubators, grants and loans, and pitch competitions.

Every entry links to the organization’s own website, and every entry shows the date we last checked that page. We only wrote down what each organization says about itself. If a site didn’t state a check size or a stage, we left it out rather than guess.

How to use it

• Start with your region and your stage. A pre-revenue company and a company with paying customers belong on different parts of this list.
• Read the organization’s own page before you reach out. Programs open and close, and application windows move.
• Most of these groups prefer a warm introduction. If you need help with that part, our free excerpt Ask the connector, not the angel walks through how to ask for one.

How we chose entries

We included an organization when all of these were true on the day we checked:

1. Its website loaded and was clearly its own.
2. The site showed a Florida base, a Florida office or a Florida focus.
3. It funds or supports early-stage companies, or runs a grant, loan or competition founders can apply to.

We left out sites that were down, redirected somewhere unrelated, or showed no Florida tie. We also left out funds that are still raising and not yet investing, and firms that describe themselves as later-stage or private equity. A missing name doesn’t mean anything bad. It may mean we couldn’t confirm it yet.

We found many candidates through public directories, including Embarc Collective’s free Florida map, then checked each one against its own site. Thanks to everyone who maintains those directories.

How Tanager is treated in this list

Tanager Holdings publishes this page. We do not list ourselves or any company we are involved with, and we do not make introductions through this page. No one pays to be listed, and Tanager takes no referral fees.

Corrections and updates

If something here is wrong or out of date, or you run a Florida program that belongs on the list, email invest@tanager.holdings with a link to the page that shows the change. We recheck entries before each update and change the last-verified date when we do.

If you’d like a short note when we update the list, use the form below. It’s optional. The list stays free and open either way, and we’ll only email you about updates to this list. Every update email includes an unsubscribe link and Tanager’s postal address.

Angel groups and angel funds

Venture funds and studios

Investor networks and statewide programs

Accelerators, incubators and university programs

Founder Hubs and Communities

These places connect founders with people, space, and events, and they are not funds or accelerators.

Grants, loans and public programs (non-dilutive)

Pitch competitions and conferences

Before you apply

• Check the organization’s page again. The date in each row is when we last looked, not a promise that nothing has changed.
• Angel groups and funds that invest in your company are buying securities. Talk to your own lawyer before you send anyone a term sheet, a SAFE or a deck with raise terms in it.
• Grants and loans have their own eligibility rules. Read them on the program’s site.