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Tampa General Hospital
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Established 2021
Tampa General Hospital launched InnoVentures in the first quarter of 2021 as the academic medical center's venture capital fund, now branded TGH Ventures. The program was built on three vehicles: the TGH Innovation Lab for internal operational improvement, the TGH Accelerator for early-stage healthcare companies, and direct venture investments in healthcare and healthcare-adjacent companies. It is housed with Embarc Collective in a 32,000-square-foot facility in Tampa's emerging medical district. Complementary programs include Co-Lab, which provides entrepreneurial resources, and IdeaHQ, which crowdsources ideas from team members. It both invests in and accelerates outside companies while developing internal ideas.
Documented successes: Launched Q1 2021 as one of the first venture funds run by a Florida academic health system; partnered with healthcare venture fund Virtue in December 2021; honored at the Tampa Bay Business Journal 2022 Inno Fire Awards; named to Becker's Hospital Review list of hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs for a third consecutive year in 2025, the only Florida academic health system on the 2025 list; runs Co-Lab and IdeaHQ programs and TGH Innovation Week (launched 2024)
Mandate and remit
Tampa General Hospital launched InnoVentures in the first quarter of 2021 as the academic medical center's venture capital fund, now branded TGH Ventures. The program was built on three vehicles: the TGH Innovation Lab for internal operational improvement, the TGH Accelerator for early-stage healthcare companies, and direct venture investments in healthcare and healthcare-adjacent companies. It is housed with Embarc Collective in a 32,000-square-foot facility in Tampa's emerging medical district. Complementary programs include Co-Lab, which provides entrepreneurial resources, and IdeaHQ, which crowdsources ideas from team members. It both invests in and accelerates outside companies while developing internal ideas.
These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.
Fund or office: TGH Ventures (formerly TGH InnoVentures)
Tampa General Hospital launched InnoVentures in the first quarter of 2021 as the academic medical center's venture capital fund, now branded TGH Ventures. The program was built on three vehicles: the TGH Innovation Lab for internal operational improvement, the TGH Accelerator for early-stage healthcare companies, and direct venture investments in healthcare and healthcare-adjacent companies. It is housed with Embarc Collective in a 32,000-square-foot facility in Tampa's emerging medical district. Complementary programs include Co-Lab, which provides entrepreneurial resources, and IdeaHQ, which crowdsources ideas from team members. It both invests in and accelerates outside companies while developing internal ideas.
Documented successes
Launched Q1 2021 as one of the first venture funds run by a Florida academic health system; partnered with healthcare venture fund Virtue in December 2021; honored at the Tampa Bay Business Journal 2022 Inno Fire Awards; named to Becker's Hospital Review list of hospitals and health systems with great innovation programs for a third consecutive year in 2025, the only Florida academic health system on the 2025 list; runs Co-Lab and IdeaHQ programs and TGH Innovation Week (launched 2024)
Organizational home: TGH Ventures (formerly TGH InnoVentures), Tampa General Hospital
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