Refresh Miami

@Waymo’s Miami map just got bigger again, and the newest boundary says a lot about where autonomous rides are headed in South Florida. That is only one item in our 10+ thing roundup, with fresh signals from HIVE, Florida LambaRail, AgentCloak, GoTu, OpenEvidence, Seaworthy Collective, Francis Suarez, Hut 8, and UM winners. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @EvidenceOpen @SeaworthyGlobal

A lot of AI coding tools are optimizing the last mile, typing code faster. Miami serial founder Albert Santalo is betting the real leverage is earlier: the messy planning and spec work most teams still do the old way. His new platform, Archie, is built around that “before the code” layer, and it hints at what comes after vibe coding for teams shipping real products. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Most e-commerce brands obsess over checkout. The real trust test is what happens after the purchase. A Miami-founder built a plug-and-play layer that connects @Zendesk to post-purchase issues like late shipments, returns, and refunds, so agents stop toggling between tools. Now the team is hinting at a sister venture coming soon. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Nearly 242,000 crypto millionaires globally, up 40% in a year. But try turning that onchain wealth into a home purchase and the system often forces the same move: sell first, deal with taxes, and give up upside. Two Miami companies think they found a cleaner path, and it connects financing and closing in a way US real estate has not really seen. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @PropyInc @milocredit

A desert ultramarathon is not the usual place a startup idea begins. Booksy founder Stefan Batory says the path from running to building started with a very specific kind of friction, one most people ignore until it breaks their schedule. Now Booksy is at billion-booking scale, and the origin story has a Miami and South Beach connection worth hearing. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @sbatory

A $300B+ market still runs on spreadsheets and sticky notes, and the mess shows up when an item moves from shop to marketplace to convention. A Miami startup called WRTH thinks the fix is an AI-native operating layer for rare physical assets, starting with collectibles. The team is betting that the biggest opportunity is not another marketplace, it is the infrastructure underneath. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @WRTHapp

A @univmiami athlete turned engineering student is building a wearable after an elbow injury changed his path, and the implications go way beyond one sport. The device is designed to catch overuse risk in repetitive motions like throwing, swinging, and snapping, using biomechanics as the signal. Miami is quietly building a sports tech pipeline on campus, and this project is a clear example. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

A bike ride in Fort Lauderdale turned into a question that a lot of AI teams avoid because it is expensive to admit. Where, exactly, is AI wasting the most compute once it leaves the demo and hits production? Rolv Heggenhougen thinks the answer points to a fix that could change the unit economics of inference for real companies, including teams building in South Florida. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

You don’t need the “right” background or perfect plan. Sometimes you just need the courage to start. Learn how this former lawyer-turned-founder built a $10M+ climate tech company because she refused to stay in her lane. 🎧 Full Episode - miamitechpod.com/a-10m-miami-st…

Most brands learn this the hard way: choosing a 3PL is not a vendor decision; it can rewrite your customer experience. Miami founder Jadah Westdorp saw how messy the search gets, opaque pricing, mismatched capabilities, and trust gaps, and built 3PeeL to act as a matchmaking layer between brands and vetted logistics partners. The interesting part is how she is turning “who do you trust?” into a repeatable process. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech @3PeeLMatchmaker

A restaurant can have QR ordering, smooth payments, and great food, and still lose the customer forever. Miami-based Dishio just raised $2.5M to fix the part most tech skips: turning that one great meal into a repeat relationship. The interesting angle is not the QR code, it is who owns the customer data and how loyalty gets built when checkout is fully digital. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #RefreshMiami #MiamiTech

Three @FIU students are national finalists for the @hultprize — often called the "Nobel Prize for students" — with a $1M shot at tackling one of maternal health's most urgent problems: spontaneous preterm birth. The Miami pipeline is real. Full story at the link in bio. 🔗 #MiamiTech #HealthTech #RefreshMiami

Miami wants AI. But AI runs on power, water, land, and cooling — not just code. Coral Gables-based investor Carolina Muñoz López is asking the question most people skip: does South Florida's infrastructure actually keep pace with the ambition? The answer is more nuanced than you'd think. Full story at the link in bio. 🔗 #MiamiTech #RefreshMiami

Miami founder turns Brickell Bridge frustration into IsBridgeUp – real-time tracking for the bridge that opens 5,000x/year 🌉 From Ukraine's Rail-X to Miami's traffic solutions. Next: every drawbridge in the city. Read the full story on our website or the link in bio. #MiamiTech #RefreshMiami #Miami #CivicTech

A Miami startup just emerged from stealth with $29M and a claim that could reshape AI infrastructure. @subquadratic  says it's built the first LLM with fully subquadratic scaling — nearly 1,000x less attention compute at 12M tokens vs. standard transformers. If it holds up, the economics of AI change. Full story at the link in bio. 🔗 #MiamiTech #MiamiAI #RefreshMiami

This Miami founder is 3D printing seawalls that double as marine habitats 🐠 Faster. Cheaper. Better for the ocean. 🎧 Hear how Kind Designs has already scaled to $10M (and growing!) in this episode of the Miami Tech Pod - miamitechpod.com/a-10m-miami-st…

The @Picsart origin story starts with a little girl posting her drawings online — and coming home in tears. For CEO Hovhannes Avoyan, it wasn't just an internet moment. It was a product problem worth solving. Now Miami is part of his next chapter. Full story at the link in bio. 🔗 #MiamiTech #RefreshMiami #CreatorEconomy @havoyan

This Miami startup just raised $37M from @JoinAtomic, @Redpoint and A*.  If you ❤️ your four-legged family members, you're going to want to watch this.  Congrats Team @joingoldenchild on your launch! Learn more - refreshmiami.com/news/miamis-la… @jackabraham @chest

Miami’s crypto story is getting more infrastructure heavy, and that is a good thing. MoonPay, founded in Miami, is acquiring DFlow in a deal reported at $100M. The headline is not just M&A, it is positioning. MoonPay is moving beyond on ramps and deeper into the machinery that actually routes trades and determines execution quality when markets move fast. Miami-founded @moonpay is acquiring @dflow  for a reported $100M — and the real story isn't the price tag. DFlow quietly processed $50B+ in trading volume since April 2025. During peak @solana activity, 85%+ of blocks include a DFlow transaction. That's not a feature. That's infrastructure. Full story at the link in bio. 🔗 #MiamiTech #RefreshMiami #Fintech