INNOVATE® Miami

Innovations of the World

INNOVATE® Miami

Miami is a city that is rapidly becoming known for its thriving innovation scene. With its diverse cultural heritage, strong economic growth, and a thriving start-up ecosystem, Miami is a hub for entrepreneurs and innovators looking to bring their ideas to life.

One of the key factors driving innovation in Miami is its diverse population. Miami is home to a large number of immigrants from Latin America, Europe, and other parts of the world, and this diversity brings a unique blend of ideas, perspectives, and cultures to the city. This, in turn, has led to the creation of a vibrant and supportive start-up community, where entrepreneurs can collaborate and share their experiences.

Another factor contributing to Miami’s innovative spirit is its growing economy. In recent years, Miami has become one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, with a strong focus on developing industries like technology, finance, and tourism. This has created a wealth of opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators and has attracted investment from major corporations, venture capital firms, and other sources.

Some of the most notable innovators and startups in Miami include FirstFuel, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses improve their energy efficiency, and Open English, an online education company that provides English language instruction to students around the world.

Miami is quickly becoming one of the most exciting and innovative cities in the United States, thanks to its diverse population, strong economic growth, and supportive start-up ecosystem. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, Miami is a great place to turn your ideas into a reality.

The city of Miami continues to gain traction as a growing tech hub and home to innovators and companies leading the way in innovation.  Miami, regarded as the gateway to Latin America proves that the city is also a gateway to the rest of the world. With more than 1,200 multinational companies headquartered in Miami, the city is known for its business brawn as well as its urbane style and natural beauty.

INNOVATE® Miami showcases the organizations, companies, and people who make the city the vibrant network of innovators that it is. Participants are chosen through careful research and through personal nomination, ensuring INNOVATE® Miami authentically reflects those making a huge difference, no matter the size of the organization or their role in the innovation ecosystem in Miami. In addition to industry-based chapters, INNOVATE® Miami also contains original pieces by some of the city’s leading Thought Leaders.

With AR video embedded in its pages, participants’ features come to life on your phone’s screen through the Global Village app. Miami’s innovation ecosystem is as unique as its history and its future.  See for yourself in the first edition of the INNOVATE® Miami ebook.

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Innovators

Featured Innovators

SnapLeads

SnapLeads - Helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data

Helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data

SnapLeads helps businesses unlock marketing opportunities with big data. The company specializes in building data-driven direct mail and client retention platforms for enterprises in various industries including, automotive, legal, medical, and real estate. SnapLeads began as a way for a group of attorneys to generate more business for their own...

Riposte

Riposte - A lifestyle brand that enhances our sense of belonging

A lifestyle brand that enhances our sense of belonging

Riposte is a lifestyle brand that enhances our sense of belonging, thanks to its genuine designs made by local street-artists, printed or embroidered on clothes made of organic fabrics. Our motto: Reliable fashion, Local soul. The brand was founded in May 2019 by Nicolas Riviere, a French entrepreneur based in...

500 Startups

500 Startups - Discovering And Backing The World's Most Talented Entrepreneurs

Discovering And Backing The World's Most Talented Entrepreneurs

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. It is one of the most active venture capital firms in the world. Ana Paula Gonzalez, Innovation & Partnerships...

City Of Coral Gables - Recognized Nationwide As A Pioneering Smart City

City Of Coral Gables - Recognized Nationwide As A Pioneering Smart City

Coral Gables was founded on innovation, being one of the very first planned communities in the United States. Today, we’re known nationwide as a Smart City, leveraging information and communication technologies to benefit our residents, employees, businesses and visitors, as well as make our city more resilient and sustainable. First...

SkyPlanner

SkyPlanner - We believe in fully integrating ourselves within our clients’ businesses

We believe in fully integrating ourselves within our clients’ businesses

SkyPlanner is a 5-star-rated, Silver Salesforce Consulting & AppExchange Partner based in Miami, FL with offices in Bogota, Colombia, and Vitoria, Brazil specialized in helping companies of all shapes and sizes leverage the power of Salesforce to do more with their businesses. At SkyPlanner, we believe in fully integrating ourselves...

PikMyKid.com

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ARVISL

Bridging the gap between the online world and the offline world

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Recipes for Change

Recipes For Change - A localized society created to evoke social change

A localized society created to evoke social change

Recipes for Change is a non – profit organization founded by Chef Santiago Gomez in 2017. Is localized society created to evoke social change by inspiring and educating people through gastronomy, volunteer programs, educational workshops and fundraising events. Our aim is to unite Miami’s local community in order to educate...

SynerTechCloud

Andres Hurtado Rangel

Accelerate and Secure Your Business with Hybrid Cloud

ELEVATOR PITCHThe hybrid cloud, a powerful combination of public and private clouds, has revolutionized the way enterprises do business. It enables employees and customers to experience unparalleled user satisfaction, embrace new business models, and achieve substantially enhanced productivity. SynerTechCloud empowers businesses to leverage the hybrid cloud by identifying the best...

Gallardo Labs

Gallardo Labs - Redefining what is possible with design

Redefining what is possible with design, technology, and heart

Gallardo Labs is a new kind of digital experience agency that is redefining what is possible with design, technology, and heart. They provide strategy, storytelling, design and critical thinking for niche brands and complex products, and are on a mission to help forward-thinking organizations discover their true potential. Conscious that...

EveryMundo

EveryMundo - Provides software products that airlines integrate into their websites to improve their direct sales

Provides software products that airlines integrate into their websites to improve their direct sales

EveryMundo provides software products that airlines integrate into their websites to improve their direct sales and help them compete with the third-party giants of the travel industry.   In today’s digital world, airlines must execute best-in-class online marketing strategies if they intend to compete with third-party online travel companies for...

Endeavor

Endeavor - Enabling high-impact entrepreneurs for a more prosperous future for all

Enabling high-impact entrepreneurs for a more prosperous future for all

Endeavor is a mission-driven, global organization present in 37 markets leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. Its ultimate aim is a more equitable and prosperous future for everyone. Endeavor, launched in 1997, was founded on the belief that job creation, innovation, and overall prosperity flourish where there is robust support for...

Code Explorers

Code Explorers - Preparing The Next Generation For The 4th Industrial Revolution

Preparing the Next Generation for the 4th Industrial Revolution

Code Explorers is a technology research and training development organization. Today’s global workforce faces an urgent need to gain new skills to keep up-to-date with the changing requirements of their jobs. Similarly, the global workforce of tomorrow – today’s children and youth – urgently need an education that sets them...

Guru Financial

A mobile payday lending application

Guru the friendly lender is a mobile payday lending application, helping people get out of these financial troubles by providing them with small affordable loans and educational resources to help improve their financial situation. Problem People need access to credit in order to help pay their bills and take care...

Benjamin Douglas

Benjamin Douglas - Recognized as one of the Top Staffing Agencies and Fastest Growing by the South Florida Business Journal.

Recognized as one of the Top Staffing Agencies and Fastest Growing by the South Florida Business Journal.

Benjamin Douglas is a boutique recruitment agency serving domestic and international clients across a myriad of business sectors with a deep specialization in technology and sales roles. Douglas Viney, CEO and Founder The firm was founded in Miami, Florida by Doug Viney in 2014 and has been recognized as one...

Penpal Schools

Helping teachers connect their students to learn with penpals around the world and from different backgrounds

PenPal Schools PenPal Schools is the world’s largest project-based learning community, with over a quarter million students in 150 countries. Students collaborate through online projects ranging from human rights and the environment to fake news and robotics, all while practicing literacy, technology, and social-emotional skills. PenPal Schools was recognized by...

Pipeline Workspaces

Pipeline Workspaces - A shared workspace concept that caters to a diverse community of entrepreneurs and start-ups

A shared workspace concept that caters to a diverse community of entrepreneurs and start-ups

Based in Miami, Pipeline Workspaces is a shared workspace concept that caters to a diverse community of entrepreneurs, start-ups, corporate teams and international business executives. With seven locations, our members range from local innovators to large companies such as Uber, Google and Postmates. Our growth has been deeply intertwined with...

Chargello

Chargello - Now in twenty-six countries and over 6000 restaurants and other venues

Now in twenty-six countries and over 6000 restaurants and other venues

Chargello makes portable phone charging kits, places them in restaurants and other venues, and uses this unique location to sell targeted ads. By doing this, they have built a highly focused new media channel while also solving the universal need for charging your phone away from home. “My phone was...

Dalent Medical

Dalent Medical - Creating Better Solutions For Physicians To Help Restore Health And Well-Being To Patients

Creating Better Solutions For Physicians To Help Restore Health And Well-Being To Patients

Dalent Medical is committed to creating better solutions for physicians to help restore health and well-being to patients living with sinus-related conditions. The company’s first FDA-listed product, the Sinusleeve™ Balloon Sinus Dilation Sleeve is used to treat chronic sinusitis, a condition that affects more than 30 million people annually, according...

PADL

PADL - Makes getting out on the water easy by combining technology and paddleboards into its paddle share system

Makes getting out on the water easy by combining technology and paddleboards into its paddle share system

PADL makes getting out on the water easy by combining technology and paddleboards into its paddle share system. Users can quickly unlock a smart board from one of PADL’s docking stations through the mobile app and enjoy their ride. PADL is on a mission to get more people out on...

AMR Healthcare Consulting

Developing custom healthcare software & delivering innovative technology solutions

WHO WE AREAMR Healthcare Consulting (AMR) is an award-winning, nurse-led technology firm developing custom software and delivering innovative consulting solutions for the healthcare industry. We are a team of nurses, physicians, technology experts, software developers, and project managers leveraging industry knowledge to offer the latest technology solutions for our clients....

FinConecta

FinConecta - Providing the technology infrastructure necessary to implement open banking

Providing the technology infrastructure necessary to implement open banking

FinConecta provides the technology infrastructure necessary to implement open banking. Through one single integration, FinConecta can easily connect Financial Institutions’ core banking systems with third-party FinTech providers worldwide. The platform that tests and integrates tech solutions 10x faster, accelerating open banking. The digital era brings new disruptive technologies, innovative business...

Crowd Capital

Crowd Capital - We make investors happy by keeping families in their homes

We make investors happy by keeping families in their homes

Crowd Capital is a game changing social impact fintech operating at the intersection of crowd financing, investment platforms, and real estate. We help defaulting borrowers secure their homes while delivering above market average financial returns to our customers in a frictionless and transparent way. By leveraging machine learning and mobile...

Pathwaves

Pathwaves - Providing Mental Health as well as Performance Improvement Services utilizing neurotechnology equipment

Providing Mental Health as well as Performance Improvement Services utilizing neurotechnology equipment

Pathwaves is a Miami-based Biopsychology Digital Therapeutics company providing Mental Health as well as Performance Improvement Services utilizing neurotechnology equipment combined with timeless cognitive behavioral therapy and/or coaching techniques. Neural Empowerment is their proprietary process which begins with a Quantification of Mental Function. A vision for the future “Our goal...

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The Publisher

Rodrigo Rodríguez-Novás

Rodrigo Rodríguez-Novás is the Founder and CEO of NORDES Consulting, a boutique firm specializing in nearshoring, business management, fractional CFO & COO services, M&A, and project management. With over 20 years of progressive experience infinancial services, including financial control, strategic planning, business operations, and mergers & acquisitions, Rodrigo excels in team management and revenue growth.... click to read more

The Publisher

Rodrigo Rodríguez-Novás

Rodrigo Rodríguez-Novás is the Founder and CEO of NORDES Consulting, a boutique firm specializing in nearshoring, business management, fractional CFO & COO services, M&A, and project management. With over 20 years of progressive experience infinancial services, including financial control, strategic planning, business operations, and mergers & acquisitions, Rodrigo excels in team management and revenue growth.... click to read more

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