Founding partners
Build the institutional layer behind Magic Island.
Magic Island is a month-long activation for founders, investors, operators, institutions, media, and local ecosystem builders in Florianopolis. FIT gives that energy a durable home.
What is FIT?
FIT is the Florianopolis Institute of Technology.
FIT is the institutional umbrella for the work behind Magic Island: a shared layer for technology, entrepreneurship, convening, and long-term ecosystem development in Florianopolis.
Magic Island is the visible campaign. FIT is the structure that can carry relationships, credibility, governance, and partner participation beyond one month on the calendar.
Why join early?
Founding members help define what the ecosystem becomes.
Early partners get to do more than place a logo. They help shape the first institutional circle around Magic Island, signal commitment to the technology economy in Florianopolis, and support a platform that can attract founders, investors, events, and media attention into the city.
The first year is about activation: proving that multiple organizations can move together, create density, and make the island feel connected. That proof makes future funding, sponsorship, and public-private collaboration easier.
Visibility
Show up where the month is being built.
Featured recognition across the Magic Island website, partner materials, and selected campaign touchpoints.
Association with the August 2026 calendar, self-serve residency, partner events, and institutional ecosystem narrative.
Opportunities to host, sponsor, or co-create activations that put your organization in front of founders, investors, media, and local leaders.
Early access to shape the FIT partner map before the wider campaign opens.
What partnership can include
Founding membership can be strategic, operational, or campaign-facing.
Partners can contribute capital, venues, media reach, founder access, policy relationships, services, content, hospitality, transportation, programming, or community trust. The strongest partnerships combine visibility with something useful for the founders and organizations participating in August.
Declare your role
Tell us whether you want to join as an institutional founding member, sponsor, venue, media partner, event host, or ecosystem supporter.
Design the activation
We map how your organization shows up across the month: visibility, programming, founder access, local relationships, and campaign assets.
Join the founding circle
FIT founding members become part of the institutional layer that gives Magic Island continuity beyond a single event cycle.
Next step
Start the founding-member conversation.
Tell us where your organization fits in the first institutional circle. We will use that to understand your role and shape the right partner path.