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A new dean. A new campus. And a blunt question for higher ed in Miami: what if a university was built more like a startup?

@CarnegieMellon Miami’s founding dean, Jignesh Patel, says legacy structures can slow down collaboration, and this campus is a chance to design around real-world problems and entrepreneurship from day one.

The way he wants to organize teams and partnerships is the twist.

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$64M into a Boynton Beach startup with a sharp thesis: the slowest part of book publishing is everything after the manuscript.

Spines says it is at a $50M revenue run rate after 400% YoY growth, and more than 8,000 US authors have published through its AI-powered platform.

The structure of the financing, and what it signals about creator-economy infrastructure in South Florida, is the part to watch.

https://t.co/vKUu7peFi7

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$5.5M just went into a Miami-headquartered startup betting that tutoring can finally feel truly 1:1, without the 1:1 price tag.

Astral’s origin story starts with a parent watching her daughter flip from “not a math person” to calling math her favorite subject, once the teaching approach matched how she learns.

Who led the round, and what the team is building next, is the part to watch.

https://t.co/j29JpBkOYD

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We've seen some pretty cool tech offices, but this one is definitely different 📷

Our latest 'Inside Miami Tech' takes you behind the scenes at @joinbobai, the Miami fintech that recently raised $5.5M from @peterthiel, @zachperret, @Codie_Sanchez & @markpinc.

Check out their space, meet some of the team, and learn what it takes to work at BOB 👀

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“Why Miami?” is a question Jason Inasi heard for years, back when building tech here felt like swimming against the current.

He founded The Factory Interactive in 1998, rode through every version of Miami’s tech identity, and stayed long enough to watch the talent equation flip.

What he says Miami uniquely gives founders, and what was hardest early on, is the part that hits home.

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Small datasets are one of the hardest realities in healthcare AI, and they can make “state of the art” models fall apart fast.

A @FloridaAtlantic University team in Boca Raton is testing quantum machine learning approaches, in simulation and on real quantum hardware, to see what actually holds up when training data is deliberately limited.

The comparison setup, and what it implies for Miami and South Florida healthtech, is the part to watch.

https://t.co/cELPNyyWj7

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$2M just went into a Miami sports tech startup that started with a simple question from inside a pro basketball org: when non-contact injuries show up, what is the actionable next step?

OnSport AI is using computer vision and machine learning to turn athlete movement into an early warning signal. The round was led by overseas basketball team owners, and the operator angle is the part worth watching.

https://t.co/Ubbhvx138a

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@WIRED  called tech conferences “mostly very boring”, so it came to Wynwood and tried something else.

Its inaugural WIRED World Fair at The Sacred Space mixed big names, hands-on experiences, and a future-facing lineup that jumped from open-source AI to women’s sports ownership to de-extinction.

The interesting part is what Miami signaled by being the first host city, and what that could change about how the tech world shows up here.

https://t.co/AeuXUic5Yp

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Nonprofits do not just “take donations,” they juggle chapters, restricted grants, committees, and reporting that never stops.

A Fort Lauderdale fintech launched in 2022 is trying to remove that back office drag, and its newest release brings AI into the workflow.

The interesting part is the problem it chose to solve first, and why legacy tools keep failing nonprofit operators.

https://t.co/8pgoctymAa

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Everyone is talking about models. A Weston engineer is focused on the part that quietly decides whether AI works in production.

Harish Shenoy helped lead Amazon Aurora Limitless at AWS, and now advises major retailers at @databricks. His takeaway is uncomfortable for a lot of teams: real-time AI is exposing database limits that used to be easy to ignore in South Florida builds.

https://t.co/dXGcMPMfbG

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An abandoned Fort Lauderdale house was not listed for sale, and most investors would have missed it.

A Miami founder spotted the signal in public records instead, unpaid property taxes, then turned it into a real investment via LIBA Capital.

Now he is productizing the process with LIBA SI, and the dataset choices behind it are the part worth watching in South Florida.

https://t.co/9gZxfvOfUZ

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22 miles over Tampa Bay, and a century of aviation history in the background.

Florida just hosted an eVTOL “flying car” demo between Tampa and St. Pete, tied to the FAA’s Advanced Air Mobility push. The part that makes this worth watching is not the photo op, it is what short-hop routes could unlock for airports, logistics, and emergency response across the region.

https://t.co/sBbDVgqakJ

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Join Refresh Miami and @EisnerAmper next Thursday for an interactive workshop designed to help founders navigate the financial and strategic complexities of building and scaling a company.

​We'll cover key topics including fundraising strategies, understanding term sheets, managing equity and dilution, tax considerations and incentives, and the financial and operational best practices that set startups up for long-term success.

​Whether you're just getting started or already scaling your business, you'll walk away with practical insights to help you make smarter decisions at every stage of your founder journey.

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$175M is about to move faster through SMB funding, and the Miami connection is not incidental.

Bizcap recently planted its North American HQ in Miami, and it just closed a new credit facility to scale across the US and Canada. The company claims funding decisions in as little as 3 hours, with capital available the next day.

The underwriting twist is what makes this worth watching.

https://t.co/r7aWzIcVnt

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$500,000 just landed in Boca Raton for something South Florida keeps asking for, more hands-on AI and robotics training that actually matches real-world systems.

@FloridaAtlantic is building shared cyberinfrastructure so students can move between simulation and physical experiments, with digital twins, datasets, and reproducible workflows. The implications for hiring, research, and startup spinouts are worth watching.

https://t.co/MhdHDAm7Ri

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Missed what happened in Miami Tech last week? 👀

We're recapping 3 of the biggest stories, including another tech company moving its HQ to Miami!👇🏼

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A $9M partnership with a top global research institution just landed in South Florida, and it is not the only signal this week.

We also spotted a local acquisition tied to ADT, fresh updates from a science team and a global forum, plus what is changing at MIA and where the new roles are opening up.

One of these threads points to a bigger MiamiTech shift.

https://t.co/BMigzpXwMq

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98.52% accuracy. 15 meters outdoors. And the sensing method is not radar.

Miami-based @FIU engineers are detecting drones by listening for something every electric motor gives off, a low-frequency magnetic signature that can differentiate drone models.

The part to watch is what “stealthier and drastically cheaper” detection could unlock for real-world deployments.

https://t.co/0GcwR9bCHR

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A South Florida healthtech staple just made AI a C-suite job, and the title choice is not accidental.

Boca Raton-based @modmed created a chief AI officer role for co-founder Dan Cane, while shifting the CEO structure and expanding its COO scope. The leadership chessboard tells you how serious the next product chapter is, and what the company wants to move faster now.

https://t.co/1eGXiKsVki

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A Pittsburgh AI compute company just chose 801 Brickell as its new HQ, and the move is not symbolic.

CEO Christopher Miglino is relocating, leadership is anchoring in Miami, and local hiring is already underway. The detail that changes how to read this story is what @AxeCompute actually sells, and why Brickell is a strategic fit for it right now.

https://t.co/dGxGLxmoI3

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