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APPLY TO PRESENT AT FORUM EVENTS
The Florida Venture Forum accepts presenter applications year-round. Apply for the opportunity to present your company to leading investors and industry leaders at our upcoming Forum events.
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Dark Watch, a Stuart hospitality tech startup developing an AI-powered “Know Your Guest” safety intelligence platform designed to detect high-risk individuals before they check-in, on raising an oversubscribed $3.5M seed round led by Eagle Venture Fund with participation from His Kingdom Resources and Blu Ventures.
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Ondas (NASDAQ: ONDS), a West Palm Beach autonomous drone supplier, on acquiring UK autonomous aerial systems company Rotron Aerospace for $6.7M in cash and stock.
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First In, a Pam Beach County early-stage VC firm, closes $148M First In Fund 3 SBIC Critical Technologies - fund licensed as a Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies (SBIC-CT) - will focus its investments in cybersecurity, defense technology, and data-driven security platforms.
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Glade Brook Capital Partners, a Miami and Greenwich, CT growth equity investment firm, closes Glade Brook Gondola Fund, its 6th tech growth equity fund, at over $1B – focused on later-stage growth investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses across AI, SpaceTech, DefenseTech, Internet and FinTech.
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Sarasota angel investor group Bridge Angel Investors doubles in size from last year to 44 members – since their founding in 2017 seeing more deals from Florida with half from Tampa Bay.
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Misfit Labs, an AI-native venture studio founded by a team of former Apple engineers, emerges from stealth and opens in Miami - focused on healthcare, infrastructure, and AI enterprise software - co-founder Kyle Carriedo: “We love Miami. We want to bring back tech. [getting past what he called the black stain on Miami from the crypto hype] “We want to help Miami with our expertise, with our innovation.”
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Tampa Bay Tech Week, April 8 - 10, inaugural event to showcase growing tech ecosystem - Michael Hall, a founding board member: “Tampa Bay needs to be known, unambiguously, as a place where you can build a serious technology company.”
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How Miami became a launchpad for cross-border payment startups - financial bridge history, customers, and expansions from South America.
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Tampa AI startup Actualization.AI wins CyberBay Summit innovation challenge competition and a $70K non-dilutive grant funded by Tampa investment firm Bellini Capital.
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Goliath Ventures (formerly Gen-Z Ventures), an Orlando cryptocurrency investment firm alleged by the DOJ to have operated as a Ponzi scheme and defrauding investors of at least $328M, files for bankruptcy and CEO Christopher Delgado arrested on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
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The Frances Ann Capital Insights Forum - Intellectual Property and The IP of You, Thursday, 1 pm to 4 pm, FSW Building U Classrooms 106/107, Fort Myers. As AI enters due diligence, data protection, and IP analysis, the stakes of ontology become existential. This session explores how intellectual property, data ownership, and human-generated signals must be protected not merely legally, but architecturally.
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Business of Biotech 2026, April 10, all-day, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa. Moffitt’s signature event that historically attracts more than 450 biotech executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and researchers from across the U.S.
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eMerge Americas Conference, April 23 - 24, 2026, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach. eMerge Americas is a strategic convener and catalyst for innovation, bringing together global enterprises, startups, investors, and government leaders to accelerate advancements in AI, National Security, Health, and Finance.
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