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A 20-plus year trial lawyer says he avoided litigation funding for one reason: it was too expensive.
Now he and his son are building a South Florida marketplace that could change how attorneys and consumers compare lawsuit funding offers, and who wins on price.
The backstory, and the product angle, are more complicated than you’d expect.
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ALT ClaimAngel Wants To Make Lawsuit Funding Less Expensive For Consumers
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A “smart city” used to mean sensors and dashboards. In Miami this October, the conversation is shifting.
Smart City Expo Miami is back for its 7th edition, drawing delegations from 50-plus countries. The theme points past tech, into how cities blend AI, finance, design, and policy to actually improve daily life.
The most interesting part is what “Urban Intelligence” includes, and who is in the room.
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ALT Smart City Expo Miami Is Back, And The Conversation Is Getting Bigger
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Three minutes. One mic. No pitch deck.
SPARC Ignite is back Sept. 26 at Converge Miami with 40 founders from across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.
One startup gets the South Florida slot at Startup World Cup in San Francisco, but the bigger signal might be what happens to the next 10 companies after the lights go down.
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ALT SPARC Ignite Is Back, And 40 Founders Pitch With No Slides
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He walked the sidewalks and interviewed 200 to 300 people to prove demand.
Now that same founder is building @MyMonthlyCar in South Florida, turning dealers’ used inventory into mid-term rentals for people who need a car for weeks, not years.
The model changed after his move from Ukraine to Florida, and it just earned a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 slot.
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ALT MyMonthlyCar Brings Mid-Term Rentals To Miami, Without The Usual Hassle
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We're pumped for the return of CloudFest Americas & NamesCon Global in Miami this November!
Refresh Miami followers can save 20% on their ticket by using code RM20 at checkout! 👇🏼
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A university in Boca Raton is positioning itself as Florida’s quantum front door.
@FloridaAtlantic University just made a leadership hire to steer its Center for Quantum Technologies, and it is pairing that with a new quantum certificate aimed at workforce readiness.
This lands right after FAU’s announcement that it will host the state’s first dedicated large-scale on-site quantum computer. The talent and partnership implications are bigger than they look.
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ALT FAU’s Quantum Push Just Leveled Up, Here’s What Changed
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$1.2M is not the most interesting number in this Miami raise.
GoSprout says it has already digitized 500,000 training records, in a part of the workforce system where paperwork can quietly kill programs before they scale.
Now it has a new funding round and a role in a nationwide Jobs for The Future program backed by Google. The infrastructure angle here is the tell.
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ALT GoSprout Raised $1.2M To Make Apprenticeships Way Less Paperwork
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1,500 agents trained is a serious signal, especially in a niche most people avoid.
Davie-based Heirloom is focused on inherited properties, where the hard part is not pricing the home, it is the grief, the logistics, and the vendor maze that shows up before a listing ever hits the market.
Founder Alexa Rosario built the playbook from a decade in real estate, and the way they teach agents to market these homes is the detail that stands out.
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ALT Heirloom Is Making Inherited Homes Easier To Sell, And Less Stressful
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140 pounds, nearly 6 feet tall, and it just joined a Miami lab.
UM’s RoboCanes added the Fourier Intelligence GR-2 humanoid, and the team is already training it on household tasks, the messy real-world stuff where robotics either levels up or fails fast.
The twist is how this lines up with RoboCup@Home’s newest shift, and why UM’s role stands out globally.
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ALT UM’s RoboCanes Just Added A Humanoid, And Research Gets Real
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1,000 customers in under two years is eye-catching. So is 15x YoY ARR growth.
Miami-based @compai just locked in a $34M Series A, led by Coconut Grove-based Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.
The interesting part is what they plan to do next: leaving the “checklist compliance” lane and pushing into continuous cybersecurity. That shift could change who they compete with, and who buys.
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ALT Comp AI Raised $34M, And Compliance Is Suddenly Moving Fast
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100,000 downloads in Miami is one thing. The more interesting number is what @zeya_app says it has now: 12,000 to 15,000 monthly active users.
Founder and CEO Mehdi Taifi is going after the oldest marketplace problem, the two-way match. Their next product phase leans into AI smart matching that does the searching for you, and the redesign hints at what is coming next.
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ALT Zèya Hits 100,000 Downloads, Now It’s Chasing The Next Million
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2M rides in 2025. 300-plus EVs. 50-plus communities.
That is the scale a Miami-born microtransit startup quietly built, and now it is being folded into an Orlando-area autonomy player.
The interesting part is not just consolidation, it is what happens when human-driven operations and an AI autonomy platform start sharing the same playbook across Florida.
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ALT Freebee Just Joined Forces With Beep, Microtransit In Florida Shifts
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This week we brought together some of Miami’s top CPG and DTC founders. The occasion? Welcoming the city's newest resident, Connor Stastny, to Miami 🌴
Connor formerly served as President & CFO of Grüns, the nutritional supplement company which was acquired by Unilever this April for $1.2B. Now he's onto his next challenge: building and scaling Miami-based Golden Child, a next-gen wellness brand for pets.
To welcome him, we gathered the founders of TRUBAR, Koia, Basepaws, The Coconut Cult, Smood Sweets, E11evenvodka , Grip , Paco & Pepper and Joi for an intimate dinner and candid conversation about building and scaling consumer brands.
Connor, we’re so excited to have you building your next chapter here.
A huge thank you to Derick Duchodni and J.P. Morgan's Disruptive Commerce team for partnering with us to bring this evening together!
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100% year-over-year growth, three years straight, in one of the least forgiving categories: cold-chain shipping.
Miami-based Grip says the old playbook of overnight everything and overpacking gel packs is leaving money on the table, and sometimes still failing.
Now they are building a software-plus-facilities network aiming for 80% of the US within 24 hours. The product mix they are moving is the real clue.
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ALT Grip’s Cold-Chain Playbook: Ship Smarter, Waste Less
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First, the stadium. Now, the U.S. banking market 👀
See what fintech just made Miami its new home and why 140 million customers already love them ❤️
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More than 20 homes and cars hit, in a gated community with alarms set. That moment stuck with Palm Beach ecosystem-builder Joe Russo.
Now he is taking what he saw inside 911 tech at RapidSOS, plus the messy reality of false alerts, and applying it to a new home-security startup called Midnight.
The product angle is not what most alarm companies are optimizing for.
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ALT Joe Russo’s Next Chapter: Turning Ecosystem Ties Into Home Security
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Three South Florida expansion headlines hit in the same week, and they were not all from the usual corners of MiamiTech.
Add a $125M raise from a Miami fintech, plus a real estate move tied to Boca’s BRiC innovation campus, and you get a picture of how fast the map is changing from Miami-Dade up through Palm Beach.
The lineup includes @a16z, @nubank, @LevitaMagnetics, @GoBrightline, WeWork, and more.
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ALT The MiamiTech Week: Expansions, $125M Funding, And New Campuses
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Six client retainers. No staff. No VA. Just one Miami founder and a workflow most people are using wrong.
Ignacio Lopez says the big shift was not a better AI tool, it was treating AI like an always-on system that brings decisions to you before you open your laptop.
The specific mechanics, and the unglamorous tasks it quietly fixes, are the tell.
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ALT How A Miami Founder Runs Six Retainers With Zero Employees
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