Growing Companies

5102 West Laurel Street
#800
Tampa, FL 33607

5706 Benjamin Center Drive
Suite 103
Tampa, FL 33634-5262

FranNet of Greater Tampa Bay matches potential business owners with franchises. FranNet works with people who want to be business owners, assessing their skills, and if the right fit, matching them with a franchise opportunity. FranNet works with a variety of franchises in West Central Florida from Citrus County to Polk County to Collier County, including the entire Tampa Bay region. 

3001 N. Rocky Point Drive East
Suite 200
Tampa, Florida 33607

Since opening in the Spring of 2008, Solamatrix, Inc. of St. Petersburg, has experienced tremendous growth. The developer and manufacturer of window films for cars, homes and commercial buildings creates innovative products such as the company SUN-GARD and GLASS-GARD. SUN-GARD is an automotive solar film used to block UV rays from damaging interior leather and vinyl. GLASS-GARD is a safety and security film used for both commercial and residential properties, and is designed to help hold a broken pane of glass together preventing shards of glass from flying upon impact. As of the end of 2010, the company employed 66. A merger with another film manufacturing company, Madico, Inc., however, means the company plans to employ 115 by the end of 2011. 

2630 Fairfield Ave. South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33712

Senior Management Advisors Inc. (SMA) operates 12 full service independent living, assisted living and Alzheimer's care residential communities in Florida and Georgia. The company was founded in 1985. SMA employs 25 people at its corporate office in Clearwater, and an average of 40 people at each senior living community. The company specializes in rejuvenating and stabilizing senior living communities for owners, financial institutions, private investors and government agencies. They offer services including consultation, management, development and renovation of residential communities.

13770 58th Street North
Clearwater, Florida 33760

Hiregy, a professional staffing and recruiting firm in Tampa, specializes in finding skilled workers to match with administrative, accounting, legal, customer service, HR and IT jobs. Founded in 2004, Hiregy helps companies with open positions to connect with job seekers. 

1111 N. Westshore Blvd.
Suite 102
Tampa, FL 33607

IPitomy Communications, a Sarasota-based company, offers telecommunication solutions, including products and support. IPitomy was founded by NIck Branica in 2004. Prior to founding IPitomy, Branica served as president and CEO of Comdial Corp. IPitomy's product, Pure IP PBX, received a 2009 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine.

1940 Northgate Blvd.
Suite B-1
Sarasota, FL 34234

Prudential Lakewood Ranch Realty, ranked as the top realty group (2010) by Trendgraphix, is one of the nation's leading providers of MLS-based real estate reports. The group was recognized as the top performer in several categories, including total sales, percentage of listing, percentage of buyers, listing sales and buyer sales.

8141 Main Street
Lakewood Ranch
Bradenton, FL 34202

Hire Velocity, a recruitment process outsourcing company, serves its clients by providing HR services such as recruiting and benefits enrollment. CEO Valeri Marks has been running Hire Velocity since May 2009. In December 2010, Hire Velocity acquired TSC Services, and the combined entity employs approximately 84 people.

5550 W. Executive Drive
Suite 310
Tampa, FL 33609

Plasma-Therm manufactures equipment for the production of electronic chips for current and futuristic applications. A growing bright spot of high-value-added industry serving global markets, Plasma-Therm increasingly attracts technical and engineering talent to Tampa Bay even in today's rocky economy. About 75 percent of Plasma-Therm employees are college-educated and about 25 percent have post-graduate degrees, typically in materials or electrical engineering.

10050 16th St. N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33716

Sarasota Precision Engineering (SPE), located in Sarasota, began as an automotive and aerospace manufacturing company, and has opened a medical manufacturing division. The medical division offers customers medical device solutions, specializing in medical molding.

2305 72nd Avenue East
Sarasota, Florida 34243

SAXOTECH is dedicated to helping media companies address the changing behaviors of consumers by providing enterprise content management and monetization solutions. Today, the solutions are used by more than 600 organizations around the world. Media groups and independent companies alike use their scalable, easy-to-implement solutions to efficiently plan, create, edit and publish to multiple channels as well as to develop new revenue streams. SAXOTECH also provides a full line of professional services designed to complement its suite of products and solutions.

302 Knights Run Avenue
Suite 1150
Tampa, Florida 33602

Vibe Fit's focus is on complete wellness and the underlying causes of fat retention, whether hormonal, nutritional or behavioral. Its philosophy is based on addressing the problem from the inside out, because each person has different requirements in order to be successful. Vibe Fit creates customized nutritional programs for clients, and address behavioral issues with the latest technology. 

3689 Tampa Road
Suite 305
Oldsmar, Florida 34677

Blue Water Media is an award-winning interactive agency providing web design, custom web development and online marketing solutions for businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. While BWM excel as a web design and development partner for many national brands, Fortune 500 clientele and government, it has earned a reputation as a leading web design company. Leveraging flexible Open Source Software, Enterprise Solutions and Social Media, Blue Water Media offers tailored, integrated Web-based solutions that combine design, custom application development and Internet marketing to achieve online success.

14375 Myerlake Circle
Clearwater, Florida 33760

Voalté provides software solutions for healthcare institutions that solve communication problems at the point-of-care. Voalté believes that better, more efficient communication improves clinical performance, which in turn improves patient care, safety and satisfaction. The products are designed to be intuitive, high-value, mission critical applications running on the latest generation of touch-based smartphones. Voalté strives to provide an exceptional end-to-end user experience.

3665 Bee Ridge Road
Suite 200
Sarasota, Florida 34233