Lance Raab

Investor-Operating Partner at Florida Funders, Board Member at Tampa Bay Wave, Board Member at TSOLife.

📍 Tampa, Florida, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Board Member
2019
TSOLife Minerva is a resident insight and experience platform that leverages AI and simplified data collection to help personalize the interactions and experiences with residents. We specialize in helping communities operationalize better data capture, and offer tools to help take that captured data and create actionable steps to personalize and enhance the residents’ lives. The process begins by replacing and digitizing your existing paper-based resident profiles to create a powerful dashboard with a suite of information. These insights lead to actionable resident insights empowering staff to put resident knowledge into practice. This new platform uses a unique information collection method through conversation, which means there’s no data entry required for you or your staff.
Investor-Operating Partner
2013
Florida Funders is a hybrid between a venture capital fund and an investor network that discovers, funds, and builds early-stage technology companies.
Board Member
Jan 2012
Tampa Bay Wave (Wave) is a purpose-driven nonprofit dedicated to accelerating Florida’s innovation economy. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs transform innovative ideas into real-world solutions & scalable businesses in Tampa Bay and communities everywhere. Since our accelerator first launched in 2013, we have supported 600 of the most innovative startups who collectively have raised over $1.1 Billion and created more than 7,000 jobs. As Florida’s #1 Accelerator, Wave has built a successful track record that combines best practices of nationally recognized accelerators and incubators with strategic connections to existing regional entrepreneurship resources, mentors, capital, and other expertise in order to foster a highly cohesive innovation ecosystem. WAVE fills an important gap in Tampa Bay’s and Florida’s ecosystem as Florida’s top tech accelerator in terms of startup volume, investment capital raised, and job creation. Wave’s programs provide tech entrepreneurs with the resources they need to scale their startups, including access to our 250+ mentors, 600+ investors, and exclusive events with key stakeholders in the tech community. Our expertise is in working with startups in cybersecurity, defense tech, AI, healthcare, fintech, and bluetech (or ocean economy).
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2019
Board Member
2019
TSOLife Minerva is a resident insight and experience platform that leverages AI and simplified data collection to help personalize the interactions and experiences with residents. We specialize in helping communities operationalize better data capture, and offer tools to help take that captured data and create actionable steps to personalize and enhance the residents’ lives. The process begins by replacing and digitizing your existing paper-based resident profiles to create a powerful dashboard with a suite of information. These insights lead to actionable resident insights empowering staff to put resident knowledge into practice. This new platform uses a unique information collection method through conversation, which means there’s no data entry required for you or your staff.
2013
Investor-Operating Partner
2013
Florida Funders is a hybrid between a venture capital fund and an investor network that discovers, funds, and builds early-stage technology companies.
2012
Board Member
Jan 2012
Tampa Bay Wave (Wave) is a purpose-driven nonprofit dedicated to accelerating Florida’s innovation economy. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs transform innovative ideas into real-world solutions & scalable businesses in Tampa Bay and communities everywhere. Since our accelerator first launched in 2013, we have supported 600 of the most innovative startups who collectively have raised over $1.1 Billion and created more than 7,000 jobs. As Florida’s #1 Accelerator, Wave has built a successful track record that combines best practices of nationally recognized accelerators and incubators with strategic connections to existing regional entrepreneurship resources, mentors, capital, and other expertise in order to foster a highly cohesive innovation ecosystem. WAVE fills an important gap in Tampa Bay’s and Florida’s ecosystem as Florida’s top tech accelerator in terms of startup volume, investment capital raised, and job creation. Wave’s programs provide tech entrepreneurs with the resources they need to scale their startups, including access to our 250+ mentors, 600+ investors, and exclusive events with key stakeholders in the tech community. Our expertise is in working with startups in cybersecurity, defense tech, AI, healthcare, fintech, and bluetech (or ocean economy).
2009
Founder/Owner
2009
FoodBlogs.com is a visual content discovery platform for mobile and the web that makes it easy for users to discover and share the best of food. As a premiere destination for food content, recipes, photos and bloggers, FoodBlogs.com is the definitive resource for bloggers to perfect their craft, brands to find their next superstar, and food lovers to get lost in one incredible recipe after another.
2008
JazzMedia, LLC
Founder/CEO
2008
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