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News, highlights and events throughout the Americas

Miami's Tech Scene Keeps Growing: Here Are Eleven Companies Who Recently Moved Their HQ To South Florida

There has been a steady migration of wealthy households and well-paid professionals to the South Florida region, brokers and developers have told the Business Journal. Along with them came an influx of companies, corporations, and firms that signed leases for new offices and facilities in the tri-county area. These new lease deals are typically satellite offices for companies based elsewhere. In other cases, companies opted to relocate their regional or main corporate headquarters from other parts of the U.S. to South Florida. Here are some notable examples of headquarters relocations to the tri-county area within the past year, in no particular order.

 

- Source: South Florida Business Journal

Climate Tech Is A Hot Investment In 2022, Next Five Years Could Be Hotter

Despite whispers of a downturn earlier this year, investors continue to express confidence in climate tech. Though numbers are down compared with 2021, a year that many agree is an outlier in the VC world, they’re on track to beat 2020 as the second hottest year for investment. What’s more, deal counts and values were up in the second quarter of this year compared with the first, suggesting that the slowdown has more or less skipped climate tech.

 

- Source: TechCrunch

Sean 'Diddy' Combs Invest $2M In REC Philly For Miami Expansion

In 2023, Philadelphia-based startup REC, also known as REC Philly, will call Miami it's second home as they launch REC Miami behind their partnership with Diddy. Located in Little River, a neighborhood adjacent to Little Haiti, REC Miami will bring a 12,000-square-foot creative facility equipped with multiple recording studios, photo/video production studios, editing bays, podcast studios, dance studios, design studios, an event venue, coworking space and the in-house production equipment needed to create high-quality media. Sean Combs Capital invested $2 million into REC leading the round and aiding in their current expansion. Combs Enterprises will not only utilize REC’s spaces but also plans to tap into the creative talent to amplify the brands under his umbrella.

 

-Source: Forbes

Proptech Startup Belong Flees Bay Area For 'Less Ideological' Miami

A Bay Area real estate startup has announced its plans to depart the South Bay for Miami, citing its “less ideological” nature as one of the key reasons. The rental tech company Belong, headquartered in San Mateo, announced its plans to move to the Magic City last week. While it’s not an uncommon phenomenon — in recent years, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has made an aggressive push to court tech and crypto firms — the rhetoric behind the move is new. Belong CEO and co-founder Ale Resnik said in a statement that the city “represents a glimpse at a possible future of the USA. One that’s multicultural, more pragmatic, and less ideological. This is an ecosystem where consumer tech can blossom.”

 

-Source: SFGate

CarePredict's Wearable Allows Care For Your Elderly Loved Ones From A Distance

Taking care of aging relatives can leave you feeling frustrated and out of the loop. That’s how Satish Movva felt caring for his then-octogenarian parents. When he would call them every day, they would say that everything was fine. But once he visited in person, he would be met with a different story. “I would end up having to take them to the hospital or to a specialist,” Movva told Refresh Miami. “This unpredictability was wreaking havoc on my life.” Movva began to devise a solution in the form of a wearable through his company CarePredict, which he founded in 2013. Strapped to a patient’s dominant arm, it tracks all the senior’s actions. Think of it as a FitBit on steroids – and tailored to the needs of seniors, their family members, and their medical team. Every day, CarePredict’s device collects thousands of data points on each user. Leveraging deep learning algorithms, CarePredict has connected the dots between specific activities and health outcomes.

 

- Source: Refresh Miami

Muck Rack, The Journalist Database, Raises $180M In First Outside Funding

For any journalist who has ever googled their name, or for anyone else who has ever googled a journalist’s name, there is a good chance that one of the top hits will be for Muck Rack, a database that trawls social media, online publications and other expanses of the internet to compile lists of people, and what they cover and where, a tool used by public relations pros, marketers and others who want to find and connect with them. Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: It’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. The company, based out of Miami, also provides a range of other tools for the media professional — including media monitoring, reporting and analytics and collaboration and pitching tools that it introduced in 2011, after running for two years solely as a journalist database — and as such is more generally part of the world of business intelligence, specifically in the media category, and competes with the likes of Cision, Meltwater, Brandwatch and perhaps to some extent more targeted services like TechMeme.

 

- Source: TechCrunch

Tech Tuesdays

September 13th | Miami Marlins

 

Tech Tuesday comes to loanDepot park, every Marlins home game on Tuesday. Join us for a pregame mixer with local tech companies in the new Recess Sports Lounge as the Marlins take on the San Diego Padres.

Smart City Expo USA

September 14-15th | Miami Beach Convention Center

 

Smart City Expo USA is the country's leading event for cities. We are solving urgent issues of today while preparing cities for tomorrow. Join us in harnessing $1T of federal funds to build inclusive and resilient cities through electrification, climate resiliency, cybersecurity, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3, urban air mobility, AI and edge technology, big data, education equity, the future of work, next-gen infrastructure, and so much more. The first 50 people to use code SMART500 will receive a $500 pass.

AI & Machine Learning in the Enterprise

September 21st | DSS Miami Hybrid

 

Join DSS Miami Hybrid for a day full of knowledge sharing and networking! We’ll gather for an in-person experience in Miami and all sessions will be available for virtual viewing as well. We will also host Miami Machine Learning Week with our South FL partners, don’t miss a whole week of immersive industry talks, workshops, panels and much more only happening the week of September 20-23!

Chamber Connections Happy Hour

September 21st | Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce

 

Join the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce for happy hour on September 21st at CH'I in Brickell City Center from 5:30pm-7:30pm.

Webinar: The EU's New Tech Rules and their Impact on Transatlantic Business

September 28th | European American Chamber of Commerce

 

Do you remember the EU’s GDPR and its extra-territorial impact on companies based outside of Europe? The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), together, will form a single set of new rules that will be applicable to online intermediaries and digital platforms in the EU. These rules will also apply to online intermediaries and companies established outside of the European Union offering their services in Europe. They are scheduled to come into force in 2024 – or sooner for some type of companies – and might impact you. Join us to find out what type of businesses/services/products will be covered by the DSA-DMA Package, what you need to know to anticipate on these new rules and how to build them into your business model.

Endeavor Masterclass Series

October 11th | Endeavor

 

The Endeavor Masterclasses are a series of sessions specially designed for entrepreneurs that THINK BIG and want to CREATE CHANGE. Do you often ask yourself what you need to take into account when negotiating a term sheet with investors? What mistakes to avoid and the best practices to consider? Then, you must join the Endeavor Masterclass by John Kim, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Datavest Partners.

South Florida Space Day

October 12th | NSU Broward Levan Center of Innovation

 

The Levan Center of Innovation is planting the Space Flag in South Florida. Join us for our inaugural South Florida Space Day supporting the economy of space entrepreneurship. Connect and network with entrepreneurs, industry professionals, academia, and many more.

South Florida Innovation Day

October 26th | NSU Broward Levan Center of Innovation + eMerge Americas

 

The Levan Center of Innovation is linking innovation, tech and entrepreneurship across South Florida. Join us for a day packed with networking, thought leadership sessions, an eMerge Americas pitch event, and so much more!

Sand In My Shoes

October 27th | Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce

 

The Sand in My Shoes® Award is the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce most prestigious accolade. Each year, it honors the outstanding achievement of a single community leader in South Florida

who has made a significant contribution to the region, demonstrating a deep love and commitment

to the region as the best possible place in which to live, work and play.

eMerge Americas  2222 Ponce de Leon Blvd  Miami  FL 

 

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