Santosh Govindaraju, CEO of Convergent Capital Partners LLC of Tampa, is making a personal investment of $1.2 million into tech start-up Harness. [Handout photo]
Santosh Govindaraju, CEO of Convergent Capital Partners LLC of Tampa, is making a personal investment of $1.2 million into tech start-up Harness. [Handout photo]

TAMPA — For a couple of local tech startups, the money from investors is just as green, even if it is coming from nontraditional sources.

Two Tampa technology startups will receive $1.5 million from angel investors in deals that the nonprofit startup incubator Tampa Bay WaVe helped shepherd by seeking capital from sources without a deep history in tech funding, the group said on Thursday.

Harness, a company founded by Miraj Patel and Andrew Scarborough, will receive $1.2 million from Santosh Govindaraju, CEO of Convergent Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm in Tampa with…