Florida Gulfshore Capital

Florida Gulfshore Capital is a private investment firm putting money into early-stage, technology-enabled companies, mainly in Florida and the wider Southeast. It sits within a group of investment businesses built around Halstatt, a long-running family firm in Naples, Florida.

What Florida Gulfshore Capital offers

• First institutional funding: the firm prefers to be a venture's first professional investor, alone or in a syndicate.
• Active board role: a board seat or observer seat in each portfolio company.
• Strategy and execution input: governance intended to shape how companies develop.

Customers and markets

Business-to-business products and services companies at or near the start of revenue. The firm favours founders with a record of building and selling growing companies, and invests in development rather than pure discovery. One principal leads early-stage investments and works with portfolio companies at board level.

Key facts

• Region: Florida and the Southeast
• Parent group: Halstatt, Naples, Florida
• Stage: early-stage, close to revenue