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Lean Orb – Transforming the disposable food packaging culture in the hospitality sector and beyond

Lean Orb is a Miami-based compostable foodservice packaging company that is transforming the disposable food packaging culture in the hospitality sector and beyond. Their team designs and distributes alternatives to single-use plastic tableware and catering supplies. They offer solutions to restaurants, hotels, corporate headquarters, music festivals, schools, and other venues where disposable items are used. […]

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IPS Legal Group – We match our clients’ passion and facilitate their dreams

In the Kitchen – A Culinary School dedicated to inspiring and instructing the Miami community

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In the Kitchen Miami is a Culinary School dedicated to inspiring and instructing the Miami community, as well as visitors from near and far, to enjoy all aspects of food and cooking and to teach them to gain greater joy and assuredness, wherever and whatever they cook. In the Kitchen Miami focuses on all things

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LaunchCode – Creates economic opportunity by adding new talent to tech ecosystems across the nation

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LaunchCode creates economic opportunity by adding new talent to tech ecosystems across the nation. While careers in technology have traditionally been reserved for those with a four-year computer science degree, LaunchCode’s programs are free and accessible to motivated individuals who are assessed for passion, drive, and aptitude rather than credentials. , Founded as

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Las Olas VC – A seed-stage fund based in South Florida focused exclusively on B2B tech

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Las Olas VC (“LOVC”) is a seed-stage fund based in South Florida focused exclusively on B2B tech. Our strategy is low-frequency and high conviction, investing $1-3M into less than 20 companies. We lead rounds, take board seats, and work closely with our portfolio company founders. LOVC was founded in late 2015 by Mark Volchek, Dean

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Coursekey – Helps increase schools’ efficiency, compliance, and retention

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CourseKey’s attendance platform revolutionizes how postsecondary institutions handle attendance. By leveraging the devices students bring to class, the platform digitizes the attendance process, significantly shortening the time instructors spend taking roll and providing school registrars with attendance data in real-time. The solution helps increase schools’ efficiency, compliance, and retention. Frustrated by the lack of

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Bluewave Technologies Inc. – A health-tech startup that started out of the University of Florida’s innovation hub

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Created in 2015 company, BLUEWAVE Technologies is a health-tech startup that started out of the University of Florida’s Innovation Hub. Innovation Hub. BLUEWAVE Technologies is a health-tech startup and the creator of the BLUEWAVE, a device that can deodorize items with its proprietary ozone infusion technology in as little as 5 minutes, without using any

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Big Data Jax – Focusing on all things data—from analytics and statistics to machine learning and AI

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A meetup group that serves as a forum for professionals to network and learn from industry leaders about the latest in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Big Data Jax focuses on all things data—from analytics and statistics to machine learning and AI. This 2,400-member group consists of the data experts in Jacksonville and

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Beeline – A story of true innovation, perseverance, and grit

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Ours is a story of true innovation, perseverance, and grit, which eventually led the company to be one of the two dominant forces in workforce management. , Beeline is a Jacksonville-based company just exiting its teenage years. Beeline isn’t a household name; in fact, most of the Jacksonville populace has never even heard

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Auditmacs – Digital transformation in the IOT age is more about people and the multiplier effect than it is about Technology

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As the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation sweep rapidly across the globe, people often focus too much on the technology. Sometimes we need to ask the question … “Why?” Why are we doing this? Just because we can do something with technology isn’t always a good reason that we should. As a technology

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Apple Rose – Spa-quality organic beauty products with the mission of supporting the fight to end human trafficking

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Apple Rose Beauty is a natural skincare company that creates spa-quality organic beauty products with the tangible mission of supporting the fight to end human trafficking. Products are sold on Amazon, at boutiques, and through an e-commerce website with ingredients that are natural, certified organic, and wildcrafted, with a focus on providing the most effective

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KiwiTech – Leading innovation across multiple verticals scaling businesses in the tech space

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Over the last decade, KiwiTech has led innovation across multiple verticals scaling businesses in the tech space. We intimately understand the challenges faced by new founders, aspiring unicorns and established leaders and work closely with them to realize their passion and purpose. Through our extensive relationships and expertise, we bring a perspective that helps strategically

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Lady Green Recycling – Dedicated to bringing sustainability into today’s waste management

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Lady Green Miami is dedicated to bringing sustainability into today’s waste management. Through its innovative pay-to-throw/recycle service and other unique programs, Lady Green hopes to significantly benefit the environment, the economy and everyone’s quality of life. Michelle Salas founded Lady Green Miami Recycling Company in 2010 with a goal to protect the environment and help

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Knight Foundation – A national foundation with strong local roots

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Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy. Photo by Julian

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Collab Space – It takes a community to raise a successful business

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The Story Begins Collab Space founders Emile Salem and Blair Kilrea noticed a gap in the Ottawa-Gatineau community. Below the surface of a quiet government city, many exciting, unique, and groundbreaking ideas were being conceived. Yet, the minds behind these ideas were facing a mountain of challenges to make them a reality. To make matters

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Bruyère – Focusing on providing care that promotes independence

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Bruyère est un organisme de soins de santé universitaire comprenant plusieurs campus, qui maximise la qualité de vie de ses usagers et les aide à retourner vivre à la maison et à y rester. On y offre un vaste éventail de services dans les domaines du vieillissement, de la réadaptation, des soins médicaux complexes, des

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Lise Bourgeois, Présidente-directrice générale – LA CITÉ

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Dès mon arrivée à La Cité en 2010, j’ai constaté l’engagement et la passion de la communauté collégiale, la vitalité et la joie de vivre francophones, la culture de l’excellence dans un environnement des plus stimulants et fertiles, le désir profond de voir nos étudiants réussir, et des projets plus fascinants les uns que les

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La CITÉ – An innovation leader in the Ottawa region

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Déjà solidement établie comme chef de file en matière d’innovation dans la région d’Ottawa, La Cité, le plus grand collège francophone d’arts appliqués et de technologie en Ontario, a atteint de nouveaux sommets en septembre 2018 avec l’inauguration d’un véritable joyau au cœur de son campus principal : le pavillon Excentricité. Construit au coût de

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Founders Fund – Canada’s First Online Business Accelerator for Women Entrepreneurs

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The Founders Fund is Canada’s first online accelerator that emphasizes not only investing in your own success as a founder but also paying it forward. They support women-identifying entrepreneurs during every stage of their growth. Started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, the Founders Fund believes they don’t need one company or one person to make a

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Sara Frasca, Vice President, Innovation Enablement – Platypus Labs

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The concept of innovation can be completely overwhelming. Images of Edison inventing the light bulb or Henry Ford revolutionizing manufacturing push the idea of innovation outside the reach of us mere mortals. If we define innovation as a gigantic, change-the-world, cure-cancer type breakthrough, the concept is relegated to a select few: billionaires, mad scientist inventors,

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Platypus Labs – Innovation is mission critical

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We provide holistic, fully-orchestrated programs to help harness and deploy innovation. Similar to the platypus, we believe that the greatest innovations are an amalgamation of seemingly disparate insights and ideas, that together create surprisingly, unexpected outcomes enabling organizations to deliver their own toxic blow and outpunch the competition. We live in unprecedented times. Exponential complexity,

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Airspace Technologies – Provides 100 percent transparency in real-time to all stakeholders at every stage

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Logistics was been an antiquated industry for far too long. That is why Airspace Technologies was created. The cofounders Nicholas Bulcao and Ryan Rusnak mapped out all the antiquated or human processes and used it as a roadmap for the Airspace Platform. Two things were clear: the customers needed a modern platform that could provide

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Grant Thornton – From inspiration to innovation

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All companies are focused on innovation as a key challenge in business today. The speed of innovation and the cost of implementing new technologies require careful consideration of future investment strategies. Opportunities to innovate are also expanding, particularly with new opportunities to increase insights into the business and to improve the customer experience. Grant Thornton

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