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Tom Wallace

Managing Partner at Florida Funders

Tampa, Florida

Overview 

Tom Wallace is the Managing Partner at Florida Funders in Tampa, Florida, specializing in investing in tech startups at various stages including Series A, Seed, and Pre-seed. With a background as the CEO of Vector Solutions and experience as a board member and interim CEO at TotalSDS, Tom has successfully led companies and invested in startups like ybot, showcasing his strategic leadership and investment acumen in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    Florida Funders is an early stage technology investment firm focused on Florida and the SouthEast with roughly $250m of AUM (Assets Under Management).

Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and angel investor syndication platform.

  • Board Member and interim CEO

    2022

    TotalSDS is a portfolio company of Florida Funders. TotalSDS is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company focused on the EHS (Environmental, Health & Safety) space.

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2003 - 2018

    Vector Solutions is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company based in Tampa, FL that focuses on online compliance training in a multitude of vertical markets. The company has been sold/recapitalized several times to private equity investors including LLR capital (Philadelphia, PA) and Providence Equity Partners (NY, NY).

  • Member Board of Directors of 1st Tee of Tampa Bay

    2010 - 2017

  • CEO

    1989 - 1999

    The Waldec Group was a network integration firm based in Florida that worked closely with Microsoft, Cisco, HP and other technology companies to provide digital solutions and networks to Fortune 2000 firms, hospitals, and large law firms. The company was sold to IKON - a Fortune 500 publicly traded company in 1999.

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