Seven local startups are out to change the way business as usual is done.
The companies just graduated from the Tampa Bay Innovation Center’s B2B Tech Accelerator, and showed off their solutions to business problems for a panel of judges at an Innovation Showcase this week.
During the 90-day program, the companies received training and mentoring in customer delivery, investor readiness and leadership.
“Enthusiasm is great in the beginning but you have to show that you’ve got traction and you understand who your market is,” said Ken Evans, managing director of the Tech Accelerator. “That’s where I’ve been adamant about making sure they are out there doing those interviews and hearing no a lot.”
Here’s a look at the accelerator graduates.
• Ceres Engineering LLC, an advanced analytics and decision support solution for the trucking and supply chain industry.
The problem: “Flooding today is one of the largest and most impactful weather events you’ll find. It costs $56 billion a year to U.S. industry. The technology that develops that flood data still is limited to only providing the probability of risk of that flood, rather than detailed…
