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Highlights from the Florida venture capital and entrepreneurship community: News highlights last week included (please visit our website for even more news):

Congratulations to:

• Senpi, a Miami AI-powered crypto wallet startup developing fully autonomous, on-chain agents that can act on behalf of the user to trade, on closing a $4M seed round led by Lemniscap and Coinbase Ventures.
• Virtual Vision Health, a Miami medical eye-care device tech and software startup offering VR tech to conduct standard-of-care visual field testing, on raising a $1M seed round led by GOVO Venture Partners with participation from unnamed angel investors.

Making news:

• Boca Raton’s angel investment network New World Angels launches New World Angels Space Coast - an initiative to drive investment into early-stage companies developing space, satellite, aerospace and dual-use technologies - the company's fifth investment group that adds to the consumer products, health care, manufacturing and industrial products, and information technologies groups.
• ServiceNow, a Fortune 500 tech company headquartered in Santa Clara plans to open a regional HQ and AI Institute in West Palm Beach that will have more than 850 employees by 2030 - CEO Bill McDermott:  "As the first sizable tech company of consequence coming into West Palm Beach, what we can accomplish is going to be amazing."
• Anaplan, a Miami company providing an AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making, acquired Syrup Tech, a New York City AI-native supply chain platform that enables global retailers and inventory-intensive businesses to plan, buy, price, and allocate with confidence for an undisclosed amount.
• Boca Raton air conditioning tech startup Blue Frontier one of 11 startups from the U.S. and Europe selected to participate in the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator, a program designed to accelerate the development of breakthrough climate-related technologies.
• Two deep tech conferences in Florida announced: Florida Deep Tech Venture Summit on December 11 in Lake Nona cohosted by Phase Shift Ventures and Backswing Ventures and eMerge Deep Tech Summit on April 22 - 24 at the Emerge Americas conference in Miami Beach.
• Florida Chamber Foundation’s Florida 2030 Blueprint: Florida aims to improve math proficiency for economic growth as employers struggle to find candidates with adequate math skills.

Upcoming technology entrepreneurship events on our calendar:

• TiECON Florida 2025, October 8, 11:30 am to 7:30 pm, Centro Asturiano de Tampa, Tampa. The premier event of TiE Tampa Bay. Celebrate the thriving entrepreneurial spirit of the region. Immerse yourself in the spirit of TiE Tampa Bay – a community built on Collectivism, Hospitality, and Education.
• Fort Lauderdale Tech Meetup, October 14, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Levan Center of Innovation, Fort Lauderdale. The October edition features networking and a founder fireside chat with David Gucker, COO & Co-founder of Vultr, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and AI.
• Venture Atlanta 2025, October 15 - 16, The Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, Atlanta. Supporting the Southeast’s most promising tech companies by connecting founders and funders through one of the nation’s largest venture capital conferences and communities.
• GatorPitch Miami, November 6, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Miami (register to see address, registration is subject to approval by the host). GatorPitch Miami highlights a cohort of the top startups and entrepreneurial talent from the University of Florida. Influential investors and members of the greater ecosystem get exclusive access to the burgeoning talent from the heart of Gator Nation. Startups affiliated with the University of Florida can apply to pitch by October here.
• Florida Deep Tech Venture Summit, December 11, all-day, Guidewell Innovation Center, Lake Nona. The Florida Deep Tech Venture Summit is a one-day, curated gathering of leaders exploring a new wave of engineering and scientific innovation building in Florida. Keynote speakers including Greg Autry, UCF Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy and Nominee NASA CFO and Daniel Betts, Cofounder and CEO, Blue Frontier. 25 speakers across Florida deep tech, defense, and dual-use startups, VC and federal innovation funders, aerospace and defense industries, and university tech commercialization sources.
• 2026 Florida Venture Capital Conference, February 23 - 25, 2026, Loews Coral Gables, Coral Gables.  Save the Date!

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