In the summer of 2022, everything changed for entrepreneur Omar Fuentes.
His Tampa-based telehealth company, AccelEQ, was accepted to the Antler accelerator program in Boulder, Colorado. Fuentes packed his bags for two months and shortly after raised $200,000 from the venture capital firm.
“Personally, we were fighting toward the bitter end,” Fuentes said. “When Antler invested in us, I’m pretty sure that was my last dollar. It was, ‘They better invest, or I’ll have to figure out…