Cyrano Therapeutics raises $9M Series B round to combat loss of smell
Cyrano Therapeutics, a Delray Beach-based regenerative medicine company pioneering the development of treatments for smell loss, has raised $9 million in Series B financing to advance the development...
View ArticleMagic Leap secures $590M from Saudi wealth fund
This week, Magic Leap secured $590 million from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which had become the company’s majority owner in late 2022. The debt funding comes as the Plantation-based company...
View Article6+ things to know in #MiamiTech: New venture fund, plus news from FAU, I...
1 Palm Tree Crew raises $32M venture fund, closes funding round Palm Tree Crew, a Miami-based entertainment, hospitality and investment holding company, recently announced they raised a $32 million...
View ArticleLost something? Drake-backed Boomerang raises $4.9M in seed funding to help...
By Nancy Dahlberg Americans spend about $5 billion annually to replace lost items, many of which are left behind at businesses such as airports, stadiums, concert venues, theme parks, hotels and gyms....
View Article6+ things to know in #MiamiTech: News deluge from SellersFi, JourneyTrack,...
1 SellersFi now can provide Amazon e-commerce sellers with significant credit lines SellersFi, the Weston-based e-commerce fintech scaleup, today announced a financing solution with Amazon that will...
View ArticleOKY raises $2M to expand unique in-kind remittance platform
By Riley Kaminer If you live in Miami, chances are you have some family and friends living abroad. Nowadays, there are plenty of ways you can send them money (and no, we’re not just talking about the...
View ArticleWith a fresh $16.9M injection of capital, Blue Frontier is leading the eco...
By Riley Kaminer Your AC sucks. Sucks a lot of energy, that is. Air conditioning is the lifeblood of South Florida – refrigerant the sweet nectar that enables the tropical lifestyle we enjoy. All of...
View ArticleTouchdown! StatusPRO wins $20M Series A for VR simulation gaming platform
The round, led by Google Ventures, attracts celebrity investors in sports world and beyond By Riley Kaminer Last week’s Apple Vision Pro launch may still be clogging up your X feed today. But in South...
View ArticleFinally secures $10M to develop AI-powered small business bookkeeping platform
By Riley Kaminer Bookkeeping is one of the joys of small business ownership… … said no small business ever! Finally, there’s a solution. Miami-based fintech Finally has developed a platform to help...
View ArticleOmega lands $6M, prepares for launch of DeFi platform for Bitcoin holders
By Riley Kaminer This could very well be Bitcoin’s Big Year. No really… hear us out: halving, the ETF, a (potential) broader resurgence of crypto. Last month, we asked some of #MiamiTech’s most...
View ArticleeCommerce education platform smartBeemo secures $6M fundraise
By Riley Kaminer The eCommerce industry in Mexico is growing at a rate of around 35% a year, according to the Mexican Association of Online Sales (AMVO). Miami-based startup smartBeemo is developing...
View Article6+ things to know in #MiamiTech: News from Yuga Labs, Blackdove, The Source,...
1 Yuga Labs buys Moonbirds maker Yuga Labs, one of the largest web3 media companies in an industry still in the depths of a crypto winter, is growing again. The brand – creator of Bored Ape Yacht...
View ArticleHealthSnap closes $25M Series B amid triple-digit growth
The Miami-based healthtech scaleup now with over 400 employees plans to accelerate nationwide expansion and grow product line By Nancy Dahlberg HealthSnap, the healthcare technology startup that...
View ArticleCarewell bags a $24.7M Series B round to transform the caregiving experience
Carewell is on a mission to provide family caregivers with tools and resources to care for their loved ones. The online retailer also just announced a Series B fund raise, recently relocated its...
View ArticleMyko, an AI startup for sales and revenue teams, attracts seed round led by...
By Nancy Dahlberg For companies, sales and revenue data hold a wealth of insights that they must swiftly unlock to stay at the top of their game. Fortunately, a Miami-based startup with conversational...
View ArticleLucy Guo’s Passes raises $40M Series A to turn top content creators into...
By Riley Kaminer Let’s say you’re an influencer with 500,000 followers. Certainly nothing to sniff at – yet you might find it hard to secure lucrative yet elusive brand partnerships. Passes can help....
View ArticleGaming monetization marketplace Scuti secures $10M
By Riley Kaminer Scuti, a West Palm Beach-based gaming monetization platform (AKA “g-commerce,” or eCommerce for gaming), this week announced a $10 million fundraise led by an unnamed family office....
View ArticlePropense lands $3M seed to propel AI-powered platform for B2B cross-selling
By Riley Kaminer When Timothy Keith was working at Miami-based accounting firm Kaufman Rossin, enabling the company to roll out its CRM platform, he fell in love with the subtle complexities of...
View ArticleWith investors betting on the ‘long game,’ Betr raises $15M at $375M valuation
By Riley Kaminer It all started with microbets: betting on whether a play will be a run or a pass; whether a drive will be a touchdown; who will be the next player to score. Then it became a way to...
View ArticleHow much did female founders raise in VC in 2023? Pitchbook report sheds some...
By Nancy Dahlberg Across the nation and locally, the venture capital funding gap between male- and female-ounded companies remained substantial in 2023, according to a just-released report, the US All...
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