Investors: you pay the company. Not StateCF. Offerings are limited to Florida residents.
Education, not a raise
Florida Formation Weekend
Two consecutive days in a Florida city. You walk out with checklists, a path memo, a REAL folder, a bank letter, and a portal workspace started. Not a promise of checks. Not investor introductions. Capital Forge League hosts the room. A company may run an Invest Local offering itself; a Florida Limited Offering of $2.5 million or more must go through a registered dealer or intermediary (§ 517.0611(4)(b)).
Who the weekend is for
Florida companies
Officers who want to raise from Florida neighbors under Chapter 517 and want the process, not a finder pitch.
Counsel and CFOs
People who have to live with the file after the weekend. One extra seat from the same company is how the room is meant to work.
Out-of-state visitors
You may sit in the room. Education may travel. A StateCF sale cannot. Sitting here does not make a company eligible for Invest Local.
What you walk out with
Paper you can use. Not a certificate. Not a list of investors.
File 1
Checklists
What the company still owes itself: Sunbiz, officers, financials, and the portal file. You leave with a list, not a lecture.
File 2
Path memo
The Florida paths laid out against your facts: Invest Local, a limited offering, or something that does not fit this portal. A worksheet for your securities attorney to decide from, not a legal opinion.
File 3
REAL folder
The working set OFR and a serious company keep: entity papers, officers, the offering facts. You start it in the room and finish it with your lawyer.
File 4
Bank letter
How money moves: investor to the Florida bank named in the paperwork to the company. StateCF never holds it. You leave with language a bank can read.
File 5
Portal workspace
A company account started so the public listing and presentation room are not a blank page on Monday.
The two days
Day one — the path
Entity, officers, exemption, what OFR expects, what this portal will and will not do. You leave with the questions to settle with your securities attorney about whether Invest Local is the right door.
Day two — the file
How a public listing is written, how a presentation room is reviewed, how residency is confirmed, how payment actually moves. You leave with the folder started.
What this is not
- We do not introduce investors or sell lead lists.
- We do not take a commission on the class.
- We do not file OFR for you.
- We do not hold funds.
- We do not certify residency.
The hour-by-hour outline and tuition go to your email after you join the interest list. Cities we are listening for: Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Jacksonville. A date goes on the calendar only when StateCF sets one. Confirm anything legal with counsel and flofr.gov.