10 Best Startups to Work For in Tampa

While the whole guava thing never quite took off, it got the city started. Nowadays Tampa is home to a vibrant tech startup scene with clusters of companies popping up all over the city. Being so close to the University of Southern Florida coupled with relatively cheap housing and lots of downtown development has led to Tampa becoming a place that more and more up-and-coming businesses are looking at as a place to call home.

Today, Tampa is still one of the fastest growing cities in America. But with all the new tech companies cropping up every day, it begs the question: which companies are the best for employees to work for?

We were curious — so, using company scores from websites that aggregate reviews like GlassDoor and Indeed as a baseline, we created our own list of some of the best companies to work for that were based within a 30-mile commute of Tampa, FL.

The full list can be found further down, but first, here’s a quick top ten.

1. Whooshfly
2. SavvyCard
3. LumaStream
4. FairWarning®
5. Therapist Assisted Online (TAO)
6. Nitro Mobile Solutions LLC
7. Priatek
8. Washlava
9. Peerfit
10. PikMyKid

Does your company make the top twenty? Read on to the full list to find out.

1. Whooshfly

Company Description: Whooshfly is an air travel company based in Tampa that connects travelers to a network of private plane operators in order to help them save time and money while avoiding airports.

Employees of the company enjoy the mission-driven nature of the company, as all of the company’s work is focused squarely on helping air travelers take more and more adventures without a lot of busy work getting in the way of working towards this goal.

2. SavvyCard

Company Description: SavvyCard is a lead development platform that uses marketing automation to generate sales leads at an extraordinarily low cost.

Employees appreciate the friendly staff as well as the flexible and supportive atmosphere. While it takes a lot of work to get a company off the ground, SavvyCard ensures that its employees still have a healthy work/life balance.

3. LumaStream

Company Description: LumaStream is a private electronic manufacturing company specializing in LED lighting — in particular, LumaStream focuses on making these LED lights as low voltage and sustainable as possible in order to help work collectively towards an energy efficient future.

Employees of LumaStream love the company thanks to impressive progress the company has already made, with employees especially noting the scalable aspect of the revenue for the company’s LED projects.

4. FairWarning®

Company Description: FairWarning’s industry-leading application security solutions provide data protection and governance for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Salesforce, Office 365, and hundreds of other applications (secure sensitive data inside cloud based applications). FairWarning® solutions protect organizations of all sizes against data theft and misuse through real-time and continuous user activity monitoring and improve compliance effectiveness with complex federal and state privacy laws such as HIPAA, FFIEC, PCI, FINRA, SOX, FISMA and EU Data Protection Act. FairWarning® catches people stealing your data.

Employees of Fair Warning Inc. enjoy the company’s excellent culture as well the good feeling they get for working with a company whose products they actually believe in.

5. TAO Connect

Company Description: TAO (Therapy Assistance Online) Connect, is an online health services platform that helps its clients be proactive about their mental and emotional health by providing them with educational modules, tools, and exercises that can be used to help manage a variety of issues and symptoms.

Employees of TAO Connect like the way that employees of the company are true believers, all of them being dedicated to the company’s goal of improving mental health for people all over the world.

6. Nitro Mobile Solutions LLC

Company Description: Nitro Mobile Solutions LLC is a technology services company that provides cybersecurity services to businesses and organizations through the use of their NitroDefender neural network.

Employees of Nitro Mobile Solutions LLC love the fact that the company has fostered an overwhelmingly positive environment that promotes open criticism and advice in order to make the company a supportive and fun place to be.

7. Priatek

Company Description: Priatek is a technology services company that helps businesses create meaningful customer engagements by improving the user experience for interacting with the company through the use of games and prizes.

Employees of the company appreciate the fun work environment that the company provides, as well as upper management’s friendliness toward new ideas and general openness to receiving criticism.

8. Washlava

Company Description: Washlava is a laundromat that lets individuals use their cellphones in order to reserve and pay for laundry services, allowing customers to monitor their laundry status in real time from their mobile device.

The company’s unique idea and the interesting problem that the company has taken it upon itself to solve is part of what makes the company such a great place to work for.

9. Peerfit

Company Description: Peerfit is a technology services company that hopes to create an environment of fitness for companies by giving their teams access to premium classes as well as online resources that will help them keep up their motivation to stay healthy.

The company’s rapid growth and the fact that it only charges for engagement — which allows them to expand their client base and increase access to their services for ordinary folks — are some of the best reasons why the company is an excellent place for employees to work.

10. PikMyKid

Company Description: PikMyKid is a tech services company that allows schools to regulate their dismissal process and make it easier for parents to check on the status of their children’s school attendance in a single, dedicated app.

The company’s mission to help schools and the fact that the company often works closely with individual teachers to help further improve the school dismissal process are some of the best reasons to work for PikMyKid.

Wrapping Up

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Author

Ryan Morris

Ryan Morris was a writer for the Zippia Advice blog who tried to make the job process a little more entertaining for all those involved. He obtained his BA and Masters from Appalachian State University.