Tampa Bay Wave brings five BlueTech startups to Tampa Bay

Group photo of attendees at Tampa Bay Wave's 2026 Tech|X Pitch Night, gathered in front of a Tampa Bay Wave banner at the organization's Tampa headquarters.

Tampa Bay Wave has launched the second cohort of its BlueTech|X Accelerator, bringing five startups from the United States and Europe to the Tampa Bay region for a six-week program designed to help early-stage companies commercialize technologies serving coastal communities, maritime industries and the broader Blue Economy. Running from Aug. 3 through Sept. 17, the … Read more

Kal Gullapalli and The Business of Building Businesses

Kal Gullapalli was in eighth grade when he told his mother he wasn’t going to medical school because he had already decided he wanted to become an investment banker, even though nearly every adult in his family practiced medicine. His parents immigrated from India in the early 1970s, recruited by American hospitals during a nationwide … Read more