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PS27 Ventures CEO, Jim Stallings, sat down with TheTop.VC Podcast to discuss the future of voice automation. Listen Here

PS27 Portfolio Company, SmartBox, gives back to the Brea Fire Department by providing snacks for their fire crew! Great work, SmartBox! Smart box carefully selected and curated a box full of brands that give back to society in all kinds of ways. Each brand contained...

PS27 Portfolio Company, Blended Designs, was recently featured in Ebony Magazine. Read more in the excerpt below by Savannah Taylor.Black businesses are booming, and also struggling. How can both be true? Many of us have watched, read or even meme’d about the dire...

By teaming up with FreshJax for their annual employee gift, Vystar Credit Union was able to give every VyStar employee a box of delicious spices, and more importantly, provide 2,060 meals for children in need.FreshJax Organic Spices are the simple, healthy, and...

Coffee for the Entrepreneurship LifestyleJACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, US, March 16, 2021 - Civilized Coffee, one of the fastest growing Specialty Coffee Roasters, has teamed up with Mark Cuban (Owner of Dallas Mavericks) and his company Three Commas to create an exciting...

PS27 Media Advisor, Christine Caven, sat down with Brendan Rivers this week on WJCT First Coast Connect to discuss the Female Founders Forum, the largest celebration of International Women’s Day in Florida. Listen to the interview at 46:00. Listen now

FreshJax Ghost Pepper Sea Salt was recently featured on CNN's list: "The Spiciest Food On Amazon That Reviewers Are Obsessed With."PS27 portfolio company, FreshJax’s  Ghost Pepper Sea Salt was a part of a list of 20 items that contained the very best...

PS27 Foundation and Deloitte are excited to announce the 6th Annual Female Founders Forum hosted virtually on March 12th, 2021. Each year, the Female Founders Forum attracts women entrepreneurs and intrepreneurs from across the region who want to become better leaders...

“I learned the difference between a founder and CEO from Jim Stallings at PS27.” - Kevin Dedner When Kevin Dedner founded digital health startup Hurdle in 2018, he couldn’t have anticipated what the following years would hold—a global pandemic and a death toll of more...

Via. The Jacksonville Daily RecordThe Jacksonville Daily Record and the Jacksonville Record & Observer profiled four area entrepreneurs under the age of 30 who started and run their companies.They all say they started their ventures by identifying a need and...

PS27 portfolio company, Blended Designs, was featured by USA Today in an article highlighting 11 Popular Black-owned Fashion Brands on Amazon. Read the full article here. A must-have for kids.We simply couldn’t go without mentioning Blended Designs, a Black-owned...

Today PS27 Ventures hosted Mikaela McShane of the #NASA T2X Program with Jacksonville's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Learn...

PS27 Ventures CEO, Jim Stallings will be speaking at Synapse Summit on March 8th - March 11th. Don't miss your chance to meet Florida's leading investors during this SynapseSummit session presented by Florida Funders. We'll be joined by Las Olas Venture Capital's Mark...

“Most small business owners don’t want handouts. They want to work and pay back their customers, who love them enough to keep them in business. We want to help people create invested advocates for their business.”– MIVENTURE CO-FOUNDER JASON...

On Friday, Feb 12th PS27 Media Advisor, Christine Caven, will be speaking at the first ever WEX Virtual on Clubhouse. This event is hosted by Women Empower X and is geared towards empowering women to get to the next level in their life and business. The event will...