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The Florida Venture Forum, Inc. is Florida's oldest, largest and most prestigious statewide support group for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneurial networking group, the Florida Venture Forum educates entrepreneurs and assists them in identifying sources of venture capital.

Created in 1984 by a group of high-level business leaders and academicians, the goal of the Florida Venture Forum is to help ensure the success of Florida-based entrepreneurial ventures by offering expert counsel and educational advice. Throughout the year, the Florida Venture Forum provides programs on a statewide basis.

At the beginning of each year, the Florida Venture Forum presents the Florida Venture Capital Conference, now in its 18th year. The Annual Conference is scheduled for February 3-4, 2009  at the Naples Grande Resort in Naples, Florida. Florida's only statewide later stage Venture Capital Conference, the showcase has attracted over $1.6 Billion  of venture capital, to date, to Florida-based companies since its inception.

Additionally, the Florida Venture Forum is hosting it's first 2008 Early Stage Venture Capital Conference scheduled for May 16th at the Omni ChampionsGate Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Please click on the 2008 Early Stage Venture Capital Conference for more information.