Editor’s Note: This is the third in a five-part series on winners of SRQ Magazine’s 2018 Localpreneurs of the Year.

Jesse Biter hasn’t just exceeded in his own entrepreneurial endeavors; he’s created an ecosystem where other startups can operate and thrive. For his work getting more than one company up and running, the serial CEO last week was named among the winners for the inaugural SRQ Media Group Localpreneurs of the Year awards.

“I appreciate SRQ magazine recognizing what local entrepreneurs are doing,” Biter says. Specifically, Biter’s work as a partner at PropLogix and at Bold: Live, Work Play. PropLogix provides real estate services and property intelligence, promising to bring “technology and innovation to the world of real estate due diligence.” Bold, where he serves as a partner with Tom Francine and Ben Kiekel, provides a co-working space where entrepreneurs can collaborate and share resources.

Bold operates in Sarasota and just opened a second location in St. Petersburg, which is already at full capacity, and the Bold team has also been working on Bold Lofts Sarasota, a living space where tenants will also have access to the cowork environment, which is slated to open this summer.

He's also a minority owner at Exo, which developed a knee sleeve marketed to athletes, and one of the founders of Dealers United, which provides purchasing and other services for small auto dealers.

Biter has described the residential development principally as a way to provide reasonable and attainable housing for many of the entrepreneurs who now work at Bold but commute from outside the city. He also says he wants to be involved in more efforts in the area to improve the workforce and the available training for potential employees in a number of fields. “We don’t have a jobs problem, we have an education problem,” he says. “We have open positions we can’t fill because we can’t find the right people.”