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Congrats on the new digs, @peterthiel !

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Congrats to Miami-based @karimatiyeh and the entire @tryramp team on your recent $750M fundraise and the launch of Ramp Stack! 🥳

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No. 3 on @Newsweek’s mindfulness apps list, behind Calm, ahead of Headspace, and it is coming out of Miami.

Nowful is not pitching “peak performance.” Founder Angélica Fuentes is pushing something more contrarian in startup culture: alleviation over optimization, and a direct challenge to burnout-as-status.

The backstory spans 17 countries and a hard-earned lesson about what high output costs.

https://t.co/JGgQ5nOjKC

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Eight South Florida startups just made the presenting lineup at Florida Venture Forum’s Early Stage Venture Conference.

Only 26 companies were selected statewide, and the local mix spans everything from advanced materials and OEM supply chains to AI-driven risk and compliance infrastructure.

The interesting signal is what this list says about where Miami and Broward innovation is concentrating right now.

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A year ago, “doctors building their own AI workflows between patient visits” sounded impossible.

Now a Miami founder says it is becoming common, and the term they are using for it is meme-worthy, but the shift behind it is serious.

Sofya is betting on programmable clinical intelligence that adapts to how hospitals actually practice medicine, and the timing feels different than it did last fall.

https://t.co/qBexECOV7C

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The NFL schedule release triggers a predictable Miami behavior: fans immediately start pricing flights and plotting long weekends.

@Skyscanner is betting on it with a new Dolphins travel planner, and the bigger signal is what it says about Miami as an Americas base for global tech teams. Brickell is part of the story, and so is the talent pipeline powering the move.

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Great night bringing together Miami’s growing pet founder community 🐾

We’ve been excited to see more local founders building in the pet space, so it felt like the perfect time to get everyone around one table. Huge thanks to @annaskaya at @Ani__VC for co-hosting this dinner with us! 🥂

A fun evening of great conversations, shared learnings, and swapping best practices with people building across pet wellness, nutrition and diagnostics. Excited to see this community continue to grow.

Thanks to all the pet founders that attended!

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$3.6B, all cash, and @autodesk’s biggest deal ever.

The surprise is not that Autodesk wants more AI, it is where they are going to get it: the messy, high-frequency data created when equipment breaks, gets inspected, and gets repaired.

@MaintainX started in Miami and SF, and this move pulls design software closer to the factory floor in a way that could reshape industrial workflows.

https://t.co/nJIj93Id2q

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Biscayne Bay has a 10-year restoration roadmap, but the next bottleneck is not awareness.

At the 2026 Marine Health Summit, the conversation shifted from “what’s wrong” to “what can we deploy,” from floating wetlands and living seawalls to stormwater and seagrass data.

The interesting part is who showed up in the room, and what that says about where Miami’s climate and BlueTech opportunity is heading.

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It started as a tool for young professionals drowning in credit card debt.

Now, Miami startup Investrio is building something much bigger for small businesses, and the shift says a lot about where the real financial pain is showing up in South Florida.

The most interesting part is what pushed the pivot, and what “human-centered” actually means when cash flow gets tight.

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$8.2T market, and a lot of it still runs on PDFs, spreadsheets, and people retyping purchase orders into legacy systems.

Miami-based Canals just raised $35M led by @Base10Partners to bring AI into the messy back-and-forth between distributors, suppliers, and customers.

The interesting part is where they’re applying AI, and why this “boring” workflow may be the real leverage point.

https://t.co/Ek34jMBcIL

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$7M is the headline, but it is not the only signal in Miami tech this week.

A supply chain platform used by airlines and Fortune 500s just raised fresh funding, and the rest of the roundup jumps from consumer to biotech to energy and industrial innovation.

The interesting part is the pattern of where activity is clustering in South Florida right now.

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325 cities, 77-plus countries, one surprising placement for South Florida.

Dealroom’s new Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2026 puts the Miami metro in the Global Champions top 20, a category built on scale metrics like VC, enterprise value, and unicorns.

But the other US ranking in the report is the real signal, it hints at where momentum is accelerating fastest.

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A Brickell VC just put $100M on the table, and the most interesting signal is not the number.

Lightning Capital’s Fund II comes with a key operator hire from Andreessen Horowitz, plus a thesis focused on the “AI Ripple Effects,” meaning what breaks and what wins when AI moves from pilots to scaled adoption.

This is what Miami’s venture scene looks like as it institutionalizes.

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New episode dropping soon…

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If you're guilty of this question “Know any VCs that could be a good fit?”, you should understand the signal you're sending.

The better move? Do your research and work to build relationships before you need them. This and more tips in our latest post.

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$2M. 5 languages. And one that feels built for Miami: Haitian Creole.

MAJC (pronounced “magic”) is soft launching an AI workforce engine aimed at hospitality, with its Culinary Council headquartered in the Magic City and a growing South Florida footprint.

The interesting part is the community angle, not just job matching, and what it could change for restaurants and workers here.

https://t.co/tpXP0MscUH

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Excited for this one 👀

This Saturday, Scott Galloway and Ed Elson are coming to Miami for a live taping of the Prof G Markets podcast.

Expect sharp, unfiltered takes on the stories shaping markets, business, AI, Big Tech, and geopolitics.

🎟️ Our community gets 30% off tickets with code REFRESHMIAMI (click “Unlock” at the top of the ticket page for the code to work).

See you there 🌴

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24 to 48 hours.

That is the turnaround Miami startup Petwealth is aiming for on at-home diagnostics for dogs and cats, built after a personal loss exposed how slow and fragmented pet testing can be.

The interesting part is how they are structuring the workflow, what they are testing for first, and why this could change how vets and pet owners share information.

https://t.co/pAHGAoSO5k

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