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News, highlights, and events throughout the Americas
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Twenty-Two South Florida Startups To Watch In 2022
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While financial technology and health care ventures make up large portions of South Florida’s startup scene, the region’s innovation sector isn’t completely dominated by any industry or vertical – and that’s reflected on our list. This Startups to Watch feature includes businesses from a variety of industries, with everything from virtual reality to psychedelic mental health care represented. The companies are tackling the future of work, crypto investing, real estate development, banking and more. They’re also attracting substantial funding from investors with an eye out for early-stage startups poised for growth in the years to come.
-Source: South Florida Business Journal
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Fintech Led VC Investment Last Year. Here’s What To Look For In 2022
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Financial services was the leading sector for venture investment in 2021 with $134 billion invested, marking a whopping 177 percent year-over-year growth. That compares with overall global venture capital investment, which grew by a still astonishing 92 percent. With fintech emerging as the leading sector for startup sector investment, here are three trends worth watching in 2022—plus a few words of caution from investors.
-Source: Crunchbase
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Why 2021 Was A Breakout Year For Latin America's VC Ecosystem
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In spring 2019, SoftBank launched its $5 billion Latin America Fund, an enormous bet on a region that had collected only $3.9 billion in venture capital in the two years prior, according to PitchBook data. What SoftBank and others couldn't foresee was that VC investment in Latin America was about to take off like a rocket. In 2021, venture-backed companies have raised $14.8 billion across 772 deals in Latin America, according to PitchBook data. That's more than the total capital invested in the region in the previous six years combined.
- Source: PitchBook
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FIU Grad Is Revolutionizing Remittances Using Crypto
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Native Miamian and FIU graduate Diego Yanez is on a mission to make it easier, faster, and cheaper for immigrants to send remittances back to their home country. In December of 2020, Yanez teamed up with Dominican Republic-based lawyer and 20-year banking veteran Marino Marrero to develop Alfred Pay, a startup that is leveraging crypto and blockchain technology to disrupt the remittance industry. “The average cost of a remittance is 7-15%, but some users are paying up to 25%,” Yanez told Refresh Miami. “On our platform, we charge 3%.” Alfred Pay is also quicker than most crossborder payment platforms. According to Yanez, Alfred Pay only takes 4 to 6 seconds to make a transaction.
- Source: Refresh Miami
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Twitter User Finding PS5s Lends Its Muscle to COVID-19 Fight
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A Twitter account with more than a million followers that’s famous for helping consumers track down elusive PlayStation 5 consoles is helping the fight against covid-19 by pointing the public to hard-to-find home tests and available vaccination appointments. Earlier this week, the account, @Wario64, posted on the availability of the BinaxNOW antigen self test, including links to purchase the kits from Amazon. The latest posts come as a spike in covid-19 cases from the omicron variant has led to massive demand for the home tests, with the government and U.S. Postal Service finalizing plans to alleviate that rush by sending coronavirus test kits to U.S. households.
-Source: The Washington Post
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Connect: Miami Innovators
January 13th| Ingram Micro Cloud
Ingram Micro Cloud Connect: Miami Innovators is a pitch competition that brings together leading members of the media with the most innovative startups of Miami. At Ingram Micro Cloud Connect: Miami Innovators, 6 companies will pitch to a panel of distinguished media judges to get valuable feedback about their startups. All members of the startup communities are invited to watch and attendance is FREE. There will be a live Q&A session with the Media Judges afterward where founders and members of the audience can ask questions to gain valuable insights.
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The North American Bitcoin Conference
January 17th-19th| BTC Miami
The North American Bitcoin Conference is the pioneer of crypto-events and has remained the most influential yearly event by curating world-class experiences filled with Hackathons, Pitchfests, NFT galleries, Bitcoin Museums, live podcast sessions featuring thought leaders, and change-makers like Ran NeuNer (host of Crypto Banter), exclusive parties, and after-hours experiences. This year’s conference will also feature masterclasses on Bitcoin, NFTs, the Metaverse, Defi, DAOs, Stablecoins, Blockchain and more. Speakers include Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Harry Yeh of Quantum Fintech Group, Kathleen Breitman of Tezos, and Peter Smith of Blockchain.com.
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Miami Hack Week
January 23rd-30th| Miami Hack Week
Miami Hack Week is back! Join hundreds of hackers across Miami January 23-30. Sign up for your house assignment and hackathon opportunities today. The winning teams will receive $10k+ in cash and prizes!
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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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