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News, highlights, and events throughout the Americas
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Taxfyle Raises $20M Series B Round, Plans To Grow Its Team By 100+
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Taxfyle, the Miami-based startup that connects consumers and businesses with licensed tax professionals, announced today it raised a $20 million Series B financing round led by Fuel Venture Capital and IDC Ventures. Coming off a year of 300% growth in 2021, CEO Ricky Laviña said this “Uber for taxes” plans to use the funding to make platform improvements, onboard more accounting pros, and significantly expand its 75-person team. The team is already outgrowing its Coconut Grove offices and Laviña hopes to expand the office space or seek out another location, he said in an interview Monday.
- Source: Refresh Miami
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Tech Rental Website Grover To Hire 100+ At New Miami HQ
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German tech firm Grover is officially open for business in Miami's Brickell Financial District, where it plans to hire dozens of employees to support its U.S. expansion. The Berlin-based company enables people to subscribe to consumer tech products on a monthly basis, instead of buying them outright. Grover aims to onboard at least 100 new employees at the mid, senior and C-suite levels at its new U.S. headquarters, at 80 S.W. 8th St., within Brickell City Tower. The firm is hiring across several departments, including marketing, customer support, operations and supply chain and sales positions. It's also recruiting for executive roles, such as chief operations officer and chief people officer.
-Source: Miami Inno
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Novoloop Says It's Worked Out How To Upcycle Plastic Waste, Raises $11M
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Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. The fact that it’s been extremely hard to do so means billions of tonnes of plastic is never recycled, and it’s out there polluting the planet and our oceans. A new U.S.-based startup, Novoloop, claims to have come up with an answer. The two female founder scientists, Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang, have been working for over five years on this problem. They have now raised $11 million in a Series A financing.
- Source: TechCrunch
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Super Bowl Halftime Stars Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Others Invest Big
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Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show made history as the first with rap as its focus. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, all natives of the Los Angeles area, and Eminem, 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige took the stage at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood to perform before the LA Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals. Besides being acclaimed artists, most of the group are also active investors in various businesses. Because we’re always looking for the startup angle around here, we pulled the investment history of each of the artists.
- Source: Crunchbase News
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An Overview of Web3 Venture Capital Activity In 2021
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2021 was a pivotal year for the Web3 sector, where it matured from a nascent community to a budding industry. Massive innovation, stemming from talent and capital flow, has brought forth the underlying decentralized technology stack, as well as consumer-facing applications that are disrupting money, finance, and even the internet itself. Web3 broadly refers to the internet that is owned by its builders, users, and creators. By leveraging tokens and decentralized technology, it aims to disrupt centralized intermediaries.
-Source: Forbes
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Pivot MIA
February 14-16th|Pivot
This February in Miami, the heat is on. Join Pivot’s Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway for a three-day event that captures the raw electricity of South Beach. It’s a new type of conference that will challenge convention, featuring the hottest names in fintech, media, education, entertainment, climate, and more. Use the code EMERGE30 to receive a 30% discount on your ticket.
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Synapse Summit
February 17th| Synapse
Join the innovation movement on February 17th as we takeover Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL to Celebrate, Discover, & Engage everything the Florida innovation community has to offer! Prepare to make boundless connections in-person or virtually through the Synapse hybrid community feature for Florida’s 5th annual premiere innovation event!
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Connect: Artificial Intelligence
February 17th| Publicize
Connect: Artificial Intelligence is a pitch competition that brings together leading members of the media with the most innovative artificial intelligence startups! At Connect: Artificial Intelligence, six logistics startups will pitch their ventures to a panel of Media Judges and receive valuable feedback about their companies before the panel selects a winner.
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Startup Studio Virtual Finale
February 18th| eMerge Americas + City National Bank
You will not want to miss the virtual Startup Studio finale event with City National Bank in partnership with eMerge Americas! A group of 20 diverse and amazing founders have worked very hard throughout a multi-week entrepreneurial program. In the finale, the top 8 will pitch LIVE to a panel of judges who will select the winner of the program. First place will receive a $25,000 grant; 2nd place a $15,000 grant and 3rd place a $10,000 grant, all provided by City National Bank of Florida. Join us virtually and show your support for all of these incredible founders!
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2022 Endeavor Miami Programs
February 20th| Endeavor Miami
Endeavor Miami has opened applications to its 2022 Programs! Endeavor will be running their ScaleUp Program in spring and fall, and EndeavorLAB will feature four cohorts throughout the year. The first EndeavorLAB cohort will focus on assisting minority-led climate tech companies and is powered by Future of Cities and supported by SVB. The deadline to apply to the EndeavorLAB cohort is February 13th and the deadline to apply for the ScaleUp spring cohort is February 20th.
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2022 Annual Global Startup Showcase
February 28th| eMerge Americas + Algorand
eMerge Americas will select 100 startups to participate in a robust multi-week program, which will culminate in a grand finale pitch competition. This competition will take place April 18-19, 2022, at the eMerge Americas global tech conference in front of leading venture capitalists, corporate enterprises, government officials, global media outlets and judges. Participants will have a chance to win over $400,000 in investments. Deadline to apply is February 28, 2022.
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Miami Film Festival
March 4th-13th| Miami Dade College
Miami Film Festival is a world-class platform for International and Ibero-American films. Presenting its 39th edition from March 4-13, 2022, the Festival showcases the work of the world’s best emerging and established filmmakers to the diverse cosmopolitan community of Miami. Cash awards totaling more than $100,000 are given in competition categories. Use promo code MFFRIENDS to receive a discount on your ticket.
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Code/Art Fest 2022
March 12th| Code/Art
Code/Art Fest is an annual gathering intended to celebrate the achievements of young female coders and to increase awareness of opportunities in computing fields. This one-of-a-kind conference is for students, parents, educators, artists, and anyone interested in the intersection of tech & art.
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