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Jun 12
During the last World Cup, a Coral Gables startup quietly tripled in a single month, and the growth did not fade when the tournament ended.
Now Miami is about to host, and Plei is betting that the biggest sports moment on the calendar will turn viewers into players. The behavior shift they track every tournament is the part to watch.
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ALT World Cup Fever Is Coming, Plei Wants Miami Playing Again
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Jun 11
One of LatAm’s biggest startup-to-startup acquisitions just got announced from a Miami-based unicorn.
Betterfly acquired Mexico’s Minu, and the combined footprint is already 1M employees across 4,000 corporate clients, spanning Mexico, Chile, Spain, and the U.S.
In a shut-down capital cycle, this deal signals a different kind of momentum, and Miami is right in the middle of it.
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ALT Betterfly Buys Minu, A Miami Unicorn’s Next U.S. Growth Move
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Jun 11
$7M just landed in Hallandale Beach for a problem every MSP feels but nobody brags about.
Lexful is betting that IT documentation is the next workflow to get rebuilt for the AI era, and the timing is not an accident as teams scale, turnover hits, and tribal knowledge becomes risk.
The part that stood out: who led the round, and what Lexful is teeing up for this summer.
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ALT Hallandale’s Lexful Lands $7M To Fix IT Docs For The AI Era
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Jun 10
A Miami medtech just unlocked Europe, and it did it with a certification most startups never reach.
DermaSensor’s handheld, AI-powered skin cancer assessment device earned a Class IIb CE Mark, and the company paired the milestone with a $5M investment.
The interesting part is what this changes about commercialization, partnerships, and how far a Miami-built clinical device can scale.
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ALT Miami’s DermaSensor Just Got Cleared For Europe, And $5M Behind It
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Jun 10
It started in a Miami garden with a tray of elbow macaroni drying in the sun.
Rodolfo Saccoman tasted a Cuban scarcity-era snack and saw a business hiding in plain sight, cheap inputs, simple process, and America’s comfort food reimagined.
Now Coditos is hitting store shelves, and he is quietly building something else that feels very South Florida: an alligator alarm system.
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ALT Miami’s Rodolfo Saccoman Turned Macaroni Into A Snack Brand
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Jun 9
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Jun 8
A Miami cybersecurity startup just reintroduced itself for the vibe coding era.
Penti.ai is the new chapter of Securily, and it is built around an agentic AI ethical hacker trained on years of real penetration tests.
As AI-generated code accelerates shipping, the real question is what happens to security, and who is watching the gaps that move just as fast.
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ALT Miami’s Penti Wants To Be The Security Layer For Vibe-Coded Apps
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Jun 8
She did not start with a startup plan, she started with a reset.
After careers in healthcare, interior design, and hospitality, a Miami consultant took a coding bootcamp just to “exercise the brain.” That decision led to @MDCollege, an Apple Swift class, and an idea that turned personal wellness into an AI product.
The founder story, and what it signals about Miami’s talent pipeline, is worth tracking.
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ALT An MDC Student Built An AI Wellness App, And Miami’s Watching
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Jun 6
9,023 feet, a nearly 10-foot rocket, and a Miami campus team that went from scrappy to globally recognized in under five years.
@FIU’s SEDS club is using the MakerSpace to turn hands-on engineering into a competitive edge, and it is starting to show up at one of the biggest collegiate rocketry competitions in the world.
The growth story behind this chapter is the part worth studying.
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ALT FIU’s Rocketry Club Is Turning MakerSpace Time Into Real Careers
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Jun 6
A record-rent office lease at 830 Brickell is just one of the tells in this week’s MiamiTech roundup.
Behind it: a big-name family office planting a flag, South Summit momentum, a new AI adoption pulse check, and a fresh set of local job openings.
The mix of signals is what makes this week worth watching.
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ALT MiamiTech’s Weekly Signals: 830 Brickell, South Summit, AI, And Jobs
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Jun 5
Social media got really good at one thing: keeping you scrolling.
A Miami team is making a different bet with Vylit, an adults-only social and creator platform built by ex-OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan and co-founder Kailey Magder.
It bundles subscriptions, chat, and discovery, and its AI feature called Vybe Match is the part that hints at what “post-doomscroll” could actually look like in product design.
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ALT Miami’s Vylit Wants Social Without The Doomscroll, Here’s The Bet
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Jun 5
A $750M fundraise. A record-setting office lease. A $3.6B acquisition.
It was a big week for Miami Tech.
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Jun 4
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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Jun 4
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.
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ALT Miami’s Nowful Thinks Burnout Culture Is Broken, Here’s The Alternative
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Jun 3
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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ALT 8 South Florida Startups Pitching This Week At Florida Venture Forum
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Jun 3
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.
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ALT Doctors Are Vibe Coding Now, Sofya Wants To Make It Clinical-Grade
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Jun 2
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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ALT Skyscanner’s Miami Bet: Turning Dolphins Road Games Into Trips
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Jun 1
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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