About Florida Opportunity Fund
Based on legislation created in 2007 and launched in 2008, the Florida Opportunity Fund (FOF) provides venture capital to emerging Florida companies, leverages additional capital resources, builds relationships with experienced entrepreneurs to lead growth companies, and partners with other organizations to strengthen the early-stage finance ecosystem in Florida. FOF is a not-for-profit corporation and, by statute, is not an instrumentality of the State of Florida. FOF was created because the Florida Legislature found there was a need to increase the availability of seed capital and early stage venture equity capital for emerging companies in the State, including, without limitation, enterprises in life sciences, information technology, advanced manufacturing processes, aviation and aerospace, and homeland security and defense, as well as other strategic technologies.