Incuvate is Tampa's live-work startup incubator — a place to build your company, sleep a few feet from your whiteboard, and get funded in milestones that protect everyone's money.
"Nest the idea. Grow the company. Take flight."
Incuvate is a startup incubator you can work from — and, if you want to be all-in, live in. Subsidized space in exchange for equity, a founder community under one roof, and capital that's released as you earn it.
Early founders get free or subsidized desk and office space in exchange for an agreed equity stake. No cash rent while you find product-market fit — we win when you win.
Already generating revenue? Pay subsidized rent plus a smaller equity component — below-market space and a seat in the network.
Like 216 Singles, but for startups and capital — we pair the right founder with the right accredited investor, and manage the money to protect both.
Founders in the thick of it can live on-site — a bunk, a desk, and a community of people building alongside you. It's optional, and it comes with house rules. This is a professional space for serious builders, open to everyone who respects it.
Open to all serious founders. Smart, driven people of every background — we're building a mixed, professional community, not a frat house.
Office-first, stay optional. Use it as your day office, or stay over when you're deep in a sprint. Residency is earned and agreed in advance.
No drugs, no shady business. Zero tolerance. Anything illegal or sketchy and you're out — it protects everyone's work and reputation.
Respect the house and each other. A clear code of conduct keeps it safe, focused, and welcoming for all residents and guests.
Incuvate plugs into established, professional clinic spaces across the Tampa Bay metro — giving founders a real, staffed home base from day one.
10021 Beach Verbena Drive
Riverview, FL 33578
Serving Westchase, Citrus Park, Town N Country & Hillsborough.
Serving Carrollwood, Lutz & the Dale Mabry corridor.
Serving Odessa, New Port Richey & northwest Tampa Bay.
Investor capital isn't handed over in a lump and hoped for the best. Incuvate escrows and releases it in tranches, gated by milestones the founder commits to.
An investor commits, say, $100,000 to a vetted startup. We hold it and deploy gradually — your downside is never the full amount at once.
We release the first phase — e.g. $20,000 — against a milestone the founder promises to hit in a set window (say, 3 months).
Delivers on schedule? We release the next $20,000. Misses it? The remaining capital stays protected and terms are renegotiated. The startup is fueled as it earns it.
As milestones are met, equity builds — a target like ~10% each for Incuvate (as managing partner) and for you (as investor).
After an agreed hold, sell your shares back to the founder, to Incuvate, or to a qualified third party. Stacked with Opportunity Zone and R&D-credit treatment, your capital is protected in and liquid out.
Incuvate is a partnership between two Tampa-area founders who bring complementary assets: operating know-how and real physical space.
PhD (Carnegie Mellon), PMP. Mentor with the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon (VentureBridge accelerator). Founder of QuantMD and ThinkCreate.AI. Brings the incubation playbook, AI/tech operating muscle, investor matchmaking, and fund-management structure.
Tampa-area operator and physician (MD) contributing the physical footprint — a conference room and a dedicated office across his five clinic spaces in the Tampa area, giving Incuvate an instant multi-site home.
A founding partnership. One brings the model and the capital machinery; the other brings the rooms to build in.
Founder or investor — tell us who you are and we'll be in touch.