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90 teams entered. One @FIU grad student team won the final pitch and is now headed to England. PolarDoc just advanced to the Hult Prize Global Accelerator, a pipeline that turns student ideas into real ventures, and it puts Miami’s builder talent on a global stage with $1M in seed funding on the line. The healthcare problem they are tackling is bigger than most people realize. refreshmiami.com/news/fius-pola… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Miami startups are making a leadership move that would have been rare 10 years ago. When a company hits an inflection point, think investor reporting, first audit, go-to-market, or hiring strain, more founders are bringing in seasoned execs part-time instead of hiring full-time. The interesting part is what AI and lean burn expectations changed in the math, and who is quietly powering the fastest-growing teams. refreshmiami.com/news/meet-the-… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

24 Miami-Dade high school girls. A six-week microbiology lab. Ten summers of repetition. @MDCollege Homestead’s Microbiology Girls Club has quietly become one of South Florida’s most consequential STEM pipelines, and the details of how it works are more practical than most “future of talent” panels. the room, the routines, the funding model, and what students say changes for them refreshmiami.com/news/a-decade-… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

A $2M gift just hit Miami’s education pipeline, and it is only one of the signals in this week’s MiamiTech roundup. From new plays in pods and angel capital to mobility moves and fintech updates, the throughline is momentum across South Florida’s builder economy. We also flagged a few job opportunities that could be the next on-ramp into the ecosystem. refreshmiami.com/news/8-things-… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

$832M went into Miami metro startups in Q2, even with the slowdown. The surprising part is where Miami-Fort Lauderdale still ranks nationally for deal activity, and what that implies for the rest of 2026 as the region closes in on $2B for the first half. We pulled the quarter’s biggest local checks, plus the trendlines most founders should be tracking. refreshmiami.com/news/miami-are… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

We're recapping Miami's Top 5 Fundraises in Q2 💰 These five companies raised a combined $251M in the last 3 months! Watch to learn who made the list & what they're building 👀 @subquadratic @joingoldenchild @get_hydrahost

7,200 CPAs, one Miami platform, and a tax-season problem almost everyone hates: your advisor says one thing, your CPA says another, and you become the courier. @taxfyle’s strategy has shifted hard over the last 3 years, and it is not about competing with consumer tax software. The real story is why they think advisors and wealth platforms are the new front door for tax work, and what AI changed in the economics. refreshmiami.com/news/taxfyle-t… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Weekend-built apps are shipping faster than ever in Miami. The part nobody brags about is what happens next. A local startup founded by a @smartasset scaling veteran is stepping into the gap between prompt-to-product and production reality, where security, scaling, and basic fundamentals decide who survives real users. The vibe is speed. The edge is durability. refreshmiami.com/news/codistry-… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

$28M just went into a pediatric care platform with multi-state ambition. Miami-linked Pediatrica is expanding across Florida and into Texas, and the Series B is being led by Valspring Capital with @M33Growth participating. The part worth watching: what they plan to standardize as they scale, and how they keep quality consistent while moving fast. refreshmiami.com/news/pediatric… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

A Miami founder is making a contrarian bet about the AI layoff wave. Instead of treating it as an endpoint, Bootup Studios is building an agent-powered platform that could turn displaced talent into first-time founders, and help them run companies with dramatically smaller teams. The interesting part is why they think Miami, specifically, is positioned to win this next chapter. refreshmiami.com/news/thanks-to… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @bootupstudios

11 years in, a South Florida program has quietly become part of @NASA’s space food pipeline. At Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, students are running crop trials to see what actually performs in microgravity. A handful of cultivars they tested have already reached the ISS, and the program’s next chapter points toward Artemis and longer missions. Miami is helping answer a question most people forget: what do astronauts eat next? refreshmiami.com/news/how-fairc… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @FairchildGarden

@Tesla says Robotaxi rides are now live in Miami, but the rollout is more specific than most people think. The initial service is geofenced to a relatively small slice of the city, built around airport-linked routes and a few major connectors. Florida is only the third state in the network, and the launch playbook matters for what comes next in South Florida mobility. refreshmiami.com/news/welcome-t… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

$1.1M just landed in Miami to tackle a flooding problem most people blame on what they can see. Sealor, built inside climate-tech venture studio Nexuma, won an NSF SBIR Phase II award and is moving from lab validation into South Florida field pilots. The intriguing part is where they say the failure actually starts, and what they are trying to strengthen first. refreshmiami.com/news/sealor-se… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

A Miami fintech just picked its ticker, SECZ, and the timing matters. @Securitize is set to hit the NYSE after its Cantor Equity Partners II combination, and the numbers around this deal are not what you usually see in SPAC land. If tokenization is supposed to move from theory to real market infrastructure, this is a moment to watch closely. refreshmiami.com/news/tokenizat… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Wynwood looks like a content backdrop, but one startup saw something else: an operating system waiting to be built. Postr just moved its HQ from Baltimore to Miami after weighing LA and NYC, and the founder’s origin story started with a surprisingly messy problem inside multi-state retail. The interesting part is what they think Miami unlocks for creator marketing workflows. refreshmiami.com/news/with-post… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @postr_official

A Miami founder is betting the next AI moat is not the model, it is the interface. Oasis Devices is building a smart ring that mixes touch input and voice to control computers and assistants with subtle finger movements. The origin story starts with AR fatigue and a simple question: if keyboards are the bottleneck, what replaces them? Miami’s hardware plus AI lane is getting interesting. refreshmiami.com/news/oasis-is-… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @oasisdevices

A Miami lab just turned a Star Trek idea into something clinicians can actually walk through. Inside the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, a 3D bioprinting and biofabrication facility is working on patient-specific approaches that point toward future implantation. The most interesting part is how they are designing the research-to-clinic path, and who they brought into the room to see it up close. refreshmiami.com/news/from-star… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @umiamimedicine

One Miami-area HQ move quietly says a lot about where the region is headed next. In this week’s 10+ item MiamiTech roundup, the signals span AI compliance, space, energy, mobility, and a few notable team moves across South Florida. One company relocated to Aventura and is staffing up locally, and it is not the only momentum worth tracking. refreshmiami.com/news/10-things… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Someone with an idea and a chatbot can ship an app over a weekend. That speed is turning into a very specific new headache for security teams. A Miami startup founded by cybersecurity veterans is betting the next edge is not just finding vulnerabilities, it is exposing entire attack paths before bad actors can exploit them. The Florida backstory, and why AI code changes the stakes, is worth tracking. refreshmiami.com/news/the-hacke… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

A banner plane over Miami, a flash mob, and a mock funeral. Guardz did not launch its latest MSP push with a press release. They staged a zombie-themed campaign to declare the “Franken-stack” of disconnected tools dead, alongside SuperOps. The interesting part is what this says about where MSP software is heading next, especially as AI raises the stakes on speed and simplicity. refreshmiami.com/news/these-fou… #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @GuardzCyber @Superops_com