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CMU just made a key Miami hire, and it quietly sets the tone for what comes next in Wynwood.
Jignesh Patel was tapped as founding dean and VP of CMU Miami, with a mandate that spans academic programs, research direction, and the partnerships that could connect South Florida companies to top-tier talent.
The timeline is already on the board, and the details are worth watching.
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @pateljm @CarnegieMellon
ALT CMU Picked The Founding Leader For Its Miami Campus, Meet Jignesh Patel
A preventive health scan brand co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek is coming to South Florida. Meanwhile, a major crypto infrastructure player is making a big HQ move, and a Palantir partnership is popping up on the MiamiTech radar.
That is just the start of this week’s 10+ item roundup, including a local startup’s $1M raise and a Mana Tech and Notion collaboration that could shape how teams build here.
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @eldsjal @MDCollege @ManaTechMiami @NotionHQ
ALT 10 Signals Shaping Miami Tech This Week, From Neko Health To Palantir
Excited to welcome Adriana Brasileiro to the Refresh Miami News team as a contributing writer! 🎉
Adriana brings an incredible depth of journalism experience to our newsroom, having reported for some of the world's most respected news organizations, including Bloomberg, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Miami Herald.
She's also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, having been part of the Miami Herald team recognized for its coverage of the Surfside condominium collapse in 2021.
Most recently, Adriana was at Meta, where she led global communications intelligence and reputation strategy across 33 markets.
We're thrilled to have someone with her experience and perspective helping us tell the stories of the founders, companies, and people shaping Miami's tech ecosystem.
Please join us in giving Adriana a warm welcome! ❤️
Check out her first Refresh Miami story 👇🏼
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🚨 LAUNCH ALERT: Introducing Inside Miami Tech 🎬
We're taking you behind the scenes of Miami's most exciting tech companies!
In this new series, we'll be visiting local startups to meet the founders, explore their offices, learn what they're building, and highlight opportunities to join their teams.
And for our very first episode, we're taking you inside @openfx_, the hot startup that recently raised a $94M Series A to rethink the way money moves around the world 🌎
What Miami tech company should we visit next? Drop your suggestions in the comments! 👇 – at Miami, FL
$17.4M just landed behind a Miami-rooted bet that independent doctors do not have to sell to survive.
Sunlight AI emerged from stealth with seed funding, a first acquisition, and a mission aimed at the most stubborn part of healthcare operations, the paperwork and payment maze that eats clinical time.
The founder’s personal connection to the problem makes the strategy especially worth watching.
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ALT Sunlight AI Raises $17.4M To Help Independent Doctors Stay Independent
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Every founder dreams of a big exit. But how early should you start thinking about who's going to buy your company? 🤔
Turns out, the answer might be earlier than you think.
On the latest Miami Tech Pod, we explore why understanding your potential acquirers can be just as important as understanding your customers.
🎙️ Watch the clip for some valuable advice for founders.
$2B for a Wynwood campus is not just a Miami headline, it is a stress test for how the US builds new invention hubs.
Ken Griffin’s record-setting @CarnegieMellon gift lands at a moment when innovation and seed capital are getting more concentrated, not less. If Miami can turn this into a durable engine, it changes the map for founders, talent, and the next generation of companies.
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ALT Ken Griffin’s $2B Miami Bet Could Redraw America’s Innovation Map
Building a company is hard. Having a community of founders who understand the journey makes it a little easier.
Another wonderful 'After the Raise' dinner in the books! Thank you to the founders that joined us and to our partners that make these dinners possible - @CooleyLLP, @EisnerAmper and @jpmorgan ❤️
@charlie_reverte, Intellica
@SamiStart, @Transak
@MariaDerchi, @refreshmiami
@codyVsimmons, @DermaSensor
Paul Rush, Substantial
Pinar Ormeci, Lexful
Matthew Collado, @GroveFinance_
Adam Dinow, Cooley LLP
@EAFritzSpencer, EisnerAmper
@edgardduque, J.P. Morgan
A “temporary” spreadsheet is rarely temporary, it is a signal.
Miami operator Matt Tabin (@2amtech) says the real cost of software drift is not the subscription fee, it is the copy-paste between apps, the manual approvals, and the moments when customers still have to call for something that should be self-serve.
At what point does your stack start running your business?
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @MhTabin
ALT When Your Team Serves The Software, Growth Slows Down
A nearly $13B Nvidia deal is about to get a Miami on-stage breakdown.
Miami AI Summit returns Oct. 23 with a new name, a bigger room, and a curated crowd of 600 to 700 founders, investors, and enterprise leaders at Loews Coral Gables.
The speaker list spans Nvidia, Microsoft, and more. The part to watch is what this says about how fast South Florida’s AI network is maturing.
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ALT Miami AI Summit Levels Up With A $13B Deal Story On Stage
It started with a teacher shortage in Miami-area schools, and a teenager who decided waiting was not an option.
Arihant Jaggi, a 16-year-old from Miami Beach, began running grassroots coding sessions out of North Shore Library with a small group of peers. Now that youth-led effort is scaling beyond South Florida, and the way it is growing says a lot about where tech talent pipelines are coming from next.
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @CushmanSchool
ALT A Miami Beach Teen Built A Coding Nonprofit That’s Going Global
$20K to $100K checks, stablecoin rails, and a fast-growing Miami hub.
@openfx_ just launched a venture arm, and it is not pitching itself like a traditional VC. The strategy is built around partnership, market connectivity, and early access to product capabilities.
Two Miami fintech names are already in the mix, and the founder implications are worth a closer look.
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ALT OpenFX Just Launched A Venture Arm, And Miami Fintech Is On Its Radar
This Miami-based founder built and sold a company before turning 19.
Now he's back at it and he just raised $10 MILLION to rethink how we interact with AI in our everyday lives.
And he has some pretty big names backing his vision, including WHOOP, Eight Sleep, and Vine Ventures. 👀
Watch & learn what he's building now👇
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Anna spent years building in LA before falling in love with Miami. Hear how she compares the two cities and the important distinction between each's tech scenes.
Full episode out now 🎧
$3M is heading to a Miami-built govtech model that started as a local procurement experiment, and now it is being positioned for national adoption.
MDIA just secured a Knight Foundation investment to take Miami-Dade’s Public Innovation Challenge framework into more US communities.
The interesting part is what this could change about how cities test startup solutions, and how fast they can actually buy them.
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @knightfdn
ALT MDIA Just Landed $3M To Take Miami-Dade’s GovTech Model National
A VC who has invested since 1991 says Miami’s tech moment is still building, not peaking.
David Blumberg, founder of @BlumbergCapital, lays out why Florida keeps pulling in founders and capital, and how AI could let smaller teams build companies that used to require whole org charts.
The part that stood out: what this changes about moats, customers, and timing for Miami startups.
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#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @davidblumberg
ALT David Blumberg Says Miami’s Tech Moment Is Still In The Early Innings
Another BIG raise for Miami Tech! 🚀
This Miami startup just secured a $38 MILLION Series A to tackle one of the biggest security challenges of the AI era.
And the investors? None other than Andreessen Horowitz, and TWO Miami-based VCs.
As AI agents gain access to more of our personal information and take on increasingly complex tasks, keeping that information secure is becoming more important than ever.
So how is this Miami company tackling this challenge? Watch & find out. 👇
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