Funding for Q2 overall may have dipped compared to Q1, but Q3 kicked off strong in Tampa Bay.

Some Tampa Bay startup giants raised additional funds, other organizations announced the deployment of funds and one Tampa tech company was sold for millions. We’ve got the full rundown below.

• Telepathy Labs, a Tampa-based IT company, raised $6.6 million, according to an SEC report. The company provides interactive voice and chat-bot technology to help customers “turn communication into action.” This is not the first funding round for the company: in 2017, the company raised a total of $7 million and in 2018 raised $335,000.

• Home improvement sales from places like Home Depot and Lowe’s have soared during coronavirus, which makes sense when all you can do is fix up the place you’re currently stuck in a majority of the time. Another company reaping in the benefits? HOMEE, a local home improvement on-demand service raised $4.5 million following a massive $15 million raise in 2019.

• Immertec rounded out the month of funds raised with $6 million announced on July 31. This makes $12 million for his Series A round and he told Tampa Bay Inno he’s looking to raise “significantly more” in 2021. Read more here.

• The University of South Florida is launching a half-million dollar fund to find solutions to fight racism within the region. It will invest in yearlong projects from USF researchers, delving into the various factors that contribute to economic disparity, police violence, social injustices and more.

• Publicly traded Tampa tech company Benefytt was sold for $625 million to a Chicago-based firm. With the sale to Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, Benefytt will now become a private company while remaining in Tampa. The company is a health insurance technology company and distributor of Medicare-related health insurance plans.