Above: Savtira CEO Tim Roberts, in shirtsleeves, and Gregg Sullivan, right, stroll down Seventh Avenue in Ybor City. Roberts likes Ybor’s atmosphere but the pace of growth at his tech company means Savtira is looking at downtown tower office space for its future headquarters. Photo: Willie J. Allen Jr., St. Petersburg Times
Wake up and good morning. Kudos to some up-and-coming as well as some more established tech companies, thanks to awards announced by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum this past Friday evening.
Ybor City's Savtira Corp., the cloud computing e-commerce platform business, was named emerging technology company of the year. The firm, which arrived at the start of this year in Ybor with 65 employees, already has plans to add hundreds more, is expanding to another Ybor building to accommodate growth and says its executives will move to a downtown Tampa office tower. The company's growing ...