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Tampa Bay’s hottest tech companies 🔥

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Vū Studio’s LED background provides a backdrop for a local music video. | Photo by @vuatusf

Earlier this month, Tampa Bay Inno recognized 35 local companies in its annual Flame Awards.

We know that sometimes talking tech, numbers, facts, and figures can feel like a total snooze fest, so we’re here to spice things up.

Here are five of our top Tampa Bay-based movers and shakers, heating up the global playing field + setting our region ablaze.

🎟 Satisfi Labs

They created the AI chat you use when you need help buying tickets to watch the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Rays, or Tampa Bay Buccaneers in action.
Think: Those 24/7 help chats when you go to a website.

🍴 Omnivore

If you’ve ever worked behind a digital cash register — you know there are a ton of buttons you have to click correctly to make a sale. Omnivore streamlines the job by combining the average cash register with digital software.
Think: Those touchscreen cash registers that employees flip around for your signature — they seem to be everywhere.

🍞 Base Culture

No matter how you slice it, this natural food brand is known for supplying Tampa Bay with paleo, grain-free, and gluten-free frozen baked goods. Products are sold at Whole Foods Market, Sprouts, and Fresh Market.
Think: Healthy loaves of bread, different kinds of nut butter, and more.

💉 Morphogenesis

This health tech company is focused on creating a skin cancer drug that will help treat patients with advanced melanoma.
Think: An injection you’d get at the hospital to help ease symptoms and slow melanoma.

🎥 Vū Technologies Corp.

This company is the film industry’s leading virtual film studio network, serving filmmakers, production companies, enterprise brands, and metaverse developers.
Think: A colossal-sized curved LED TV that CBS Sports, Neiman Marcus, WWE, and Mercedez-Benz rented out for promos and commercials.

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Tuesday, Nov. 15

Shuffleboard Night of Fun | Tuesday, Nov. 15 | 6-8 p.m. | Mirror Lake St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, 559 Mirror Lake Dr. N., St. Petersburg | $20 | Join Unity of Gulfport for a night of fun at the oldest shuffleboard courts in the world.
Lightning vs. Stars | Tuesday, Nov. 15 | 7-10 p.m. | Amalie Arena, 401 Channelside Dr., Tampa | $20 | It’s an epic showdown every time Dallas goes head-to-head with our Tampa Bay Lightning on the ice.

Wednesday, Nov. 16

Golden Hour: A Country Music Concert Series | Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 6-9 p.m. | Armature Works, 1910 N. Ola Ave., Tampa | Free | The OakLee Band will be headlining, and Amber Lynn and the Low Tide Band will bring the southern vibes.

Thursday, Nov. 17

St. Pete BikeFest 2022 | Thursday, Nov. 17-Friday, Nov. 18 | 10 a.m.-10 p.m. | Orange County Choppers, 10575 49th St. N., Clearwater | Free | Meet Orange County Choppers stars at this four-day motorcycle celebration with concerts by local and national acts, nightly bar crawls, vendors, and a bike show.

Friday, Nov. 18

Tampa Bay Boat Show | Friday, Nov. 18 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Florida State Fair, 4800 US Hwy. 301 North, Tampa | Free | The Tampa Bay Boat Show will host millions of dollars worth of new boats, watercraft, and exhibits for the boating enthusiast.
BIG FOOT MEETS STAR WARS | Friday, Nov. 18 | 12 p.m.-12 a.m. | Pinellas Ale Works, 1962 First Ave. South, St. Petersburg | Free | In artist Tim Gibbon’s latest show, his imagination takes off with the fantasy of Bigfoot and Star Wars characters as friends partying together.
Cody Johnson | Friday, Nov. 18 | 7 p.m. | Yuengling Center, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa | $40-$125 | Nashville Platinum recording artist Cody Johnson is rocking USF’s own Yuengling Center with special guest Randy Houser.

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Biz

The Bucs are scoring wins on + off the field. Linebacker Carl Nassib just received Series A funding for his Tampa-based startup: Rayze. The app connects youth seeking volunteer or donor opportunities with nonprofits. 🏈 (Tampa Bay Inno)
Achieve, a FinTech company out of San Mateo, CA, is moving to TBAY + plans to hire about 100 Tampanians in 2023 on top of their 40 Tampa-based hires this month. Achieve provides digital personal finance solutions, but these new remote positions will be in member services. (Tampa Bay Business Journal)

Development

Duckweed Urban Market plans to open a new convenience store on Davis Island (302 E. Davis Blvd., Tampa) The market will stock fresh produce, snacks, wine, liquor, and more. You can shop its healthy vegan + keto items at these Tampa locations: Downtown Tampa, Tampa’s Channel District, NOHO Square, and Westshore. 🛒 (Creative Loafing Tampa Bay)
So many car washes have been popping up around Tampa Bay lately — From Woodie’s Wash Shack to Big Dan’s Car Wash. But the question is, why? Well, the demand is there, and it’s due to a high car-to-household rate, pollen dust, salty air, and love bug residue. 🧽 (Tampa Bay Times)

Sports

The GOAT, Tom Brady, has a new record to put in his ever-expanding collection. This weekend, the 45-year-old became the first quarterback to win an NFL game in three countries outside the US — with two in London, one in Mexico City, and one in Germany. 🐐 (CNN Sports)
The FIFA World Cup is almost here + Mary Margaret’s Olde Irish Tavern (29 3rd Street North) in DTSP plans to host drink n’ watch parties for all 64 games in the world’s biggest sporting event. The establishment opens for breakfast at 5 a.m. every game day starting Nov. 20. ⚽️ (I Love the Burg)

Show

Roll out the red carpet — The Florida Strawberry Festival’s lineup is stacked with music icons like headliner Willie Nelson, Lynard Skynyrd, and Train. And there are 17 other artists you’re sure to love set to take on the Wish Farms soundstage from March 2-12, 2023. 🍓

Arts

Come check out the outsanding works of art at Treasure Island’s 2022 Sanding Ovations Masters Cup sand sculpture festival on Nov. 17-20 + Nov. 26-27. This year’s theme is “Once Upon a Time.” In addition to the build-off, there will be free entertainment, activities, food, a beach market, and more.

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Daunted by a long holiday shopping list? Quick cash idea: List your extra storage spaces on Neighbor. You can rent out anything from closets and sheds to driveways and parking spots. Bonus: Listing your space is free. 💸*

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Things just got steamy...

Are you ready to give a blind date a try? | Photo by @loveisblindnetflix

Calling all single folks looking to discover if love is truly blind — Netflix’s hit dating show ''Love is Blind'' is looking for Tampa-based contestants.

Here’s how the show works:

For ten days, participants have conversation dates with other contestants while staying in separate "pods.” The key: these pods are wired so contestants can hear each other but never catch a glimpse.
The two can only meet face-to-face if a successful marriage proposal takes place.
Once couples are engaged, they go on a vacation together to a resort where they can choose to take things up a notch — if ya know what we mean.
After that, they move in together for four weeks and meet each other’s closest friends and family.
Four weeks later, in front of a crowd and upon a wedding altar, the two must choose if they will tie the knot — or not.

If interested, here’s a link to the spicy 69-question form, asking potential participants personal questions.

THE WRAP

Today’s issue was written by Brad.

Editor’s pick: My girlfriend just got me into “Love is Blind.” It kind of reminds me of how people had to stay at home during the pandemic and maintain relationships without face-to-face interactions. Pro tip, remember that reality TV is oftentimes, heavily produced and scripted.

Missed yesterday’s newsletter? We wrote up 20 ways to get involved in Tampa Bay’s volunteering scene, here.

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Editorial: Brad Haft, Bailey LeFever, Jessalin Heins-Nagamoto, Ashlea Hearn, Emily Shea | Send us a scoop, question, or feedback.

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