Lance Raab
Investor at Florida Funders
Lance Raab
Investor at Florida Funders
Tampa, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Investor / Member
2013 - Current
Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and crowd-funding platform that invests in early-stage technology companies in Florida. The firm is led by an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and experienced angel investors with proven track records of successful exits and a shared passion for growing the next generation of Florida tech companies.
Board Member
2012
Tampa Bay Wave, Florida's #1 Accelerator, is non-profit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into growing tech ventures in Tampa Bay.
Founder/CEO
2008
JazzMedia is a privately held company based in Tampa, Florida that owns, develops and invests in high quality .com domain names.
Board Member
2019 - 2022
TSOLife is a venture-backed technology company focused on providing senior living operators with the most in-depth information on who a community’s residents are. Our innovative system has a unique way to collect this information in a way that doesn’t require data entry, easily digitizing resident profiles to create a powerful dashboard with a suite of information that automatically turns resident insights into actions for staff to put knowledge into practice. TSOLife is the tool for data-informed senior living communities.
Pitch Coach
2018 - 2020
The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA) is a Florida-based technology accelerator that is designed to establish and grow successful, high-growth Israeli and Florida tech ventures in the Tampa Bay Area. Assist founders with their pitch decks and presentations to help prepare them to pitch to investors at Demo Day.
Founder/Owner
2009 - 2017
FoodBlogs.com is a visual content discovery platform and search engine that makes it fun and easy for users to find the best food content from across the web and the definitive resource for bloggers to promote their craft. Launched FoodBlogs.com in 2009, partnered with Grateful Ventures in 2014. Sold to Gannett Publishing in 2017. Grateful Ventures and FoodBlogs.com are now part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.
Volunteer
2005 - 2014
JA's volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential.
Member
2000 - 2013
Vistage (formerly TEC) is an international organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of CEO's.
Member
1998 - 2013
The mission of the CEO Council is to be the premier organization for entrepreneurial Chief Executive Officers in the Tampa Bay area. The Council's foundation is built upon its ability to build relationships, generate ideas and formulate solutions.
Founder/CEO
1987 - 2007
Leading publisher of software for the Senior Living Industry. Sold the company to MDI Technologies in 2007