Travis Priest

BRIDGE Angel Investors is a group of experienced private, accredited investors located in Sarasota, FL, committed to supporting entrepreneurship on a local, state and national level by providing capital and mentoring to assist early-stage businesses achieve high growth.

Suncoast Venture Studio is a venture builder focused on launching high-impact companies in Florida’s Gulf Coast. We invest at the pre-seed and seed stages, matched by outside capital, and operate as an institutional co-founder, providing talent, tools, and execution frameworks to build startups from zero. Our model emphasizes speed, validation, process, and scalability, with an in-house team that supports ventures through ideation, product development, and early traction. The goal is not only investor return, but regional economic growth through well-built companies. We concentrate on four verticals where our team brings deep expertise and market tailwinds align: SaaS/AI, FinTech, Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing, and HealthTech. In SaaS/AI, we build intelligent software that automates decision-making and workflow in underserved industries. In FinTech, we focus on tools that modernize legacy systems, democratize access, and leverage Florida’s unique demographics. Our Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing efforts target robotics, machine vision, and automation software that solve industrial labor and efficiency problems, while our HealthTech ventures apply software, AI, data, and connected devices to challenges in care delivery, elder health, and clinical operations. Each of these sectors are capital-efficient and ripe for transformation. By combining our internal venture creation process with access to domain experts, university tech-transfer pipelines, and our own operator experience, we can de-risk early execution and bring high-value startups to market faster. We aim to launch 3-4 ventures per year across these focus areas, positioning Suncoast as a launchpad for practical innovation across industries critical to the region and the future.

BRIDGE Angel Investors is a group of experienced private, accredited investors located in Sarasota, FL, committed to supporting entrepreneurship on a local, state and national level by providing capital and mentoring to assist early-stage businesses achieve high growth.

Vocap provides early growth capital and stage-relevant knowhow to B2B software businesses. Specifically, Vocap focuses on helping companies with clear product-market fit harden their growth strategy and operational foundation for scale.

Sundrop Mobile is a mobile marketing and loyalty solutions provider. Sundrop operates an automated, “card-less” mobile loyalty program, loyalTXT™, that uses a customer’s mobile number as their "loyalty card,"​ text messaging with email for data collection and communication, and seamlessly integrates social media and location-based services. Sundrop introduces businesses to their customers by providing the infrastructure and expertise that empowers merchants to reach their customers via mobile, email, social media, and location-based marketing -- anytime. Sundrop helps businesses become mobile, social, and local. www.sundropmobile.com