Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Florida

We have done several spotlight posts on entrepreneurship in different parts of the world: Colorado, Utah, Czech Republic.

Today, we will turn the spotlight on Florida.

As usual, we start with a Unicorn: Modernizing Medicine. It’s a wonderful company from serial entrepreneur Daniel Cane. The HealthcareIT company has raised over $350 million in funding, has over $100 million in revenue, and is a legitimate unicorn.

Read: Equity Financing from Customers: Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane, Boca Raton, Florida

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Roundtable Recap: November 1 – Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Evangelos Simoudis, Founder and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, with whom, we did a deep dive into AI investing.

Viima
Pitching first, Jesse Nieminen from Espoo, Finland, pitched Viima, an innovation management platform for the mid market. The company is approaching a million in revenue.

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Roundtable Recap: October 25 – Europe and Africa Rising

During this week’s roundtable, we had three interesting pitches from three different parts of the world. I am particularly thrilled to see Europe and Africa becoming more active on the 1Mby1M platform. The US and India have always been a big presence.

Telexos
Pitching first, Erhard Frenholz from Weilheim, Germany, pitched Telexos, a liquid biopsy company. The segment seems to have received huge amounts of funding already. What does it take to score a Series A at this stage of the game?

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Roundtable Recap: October 17 – Cool Companies, Exciting Opportunities

During this week’s roundtable, we had as a guest Ray Chan, Managing Director at K5 Ventures and Tech Coast Angels shared his views on the segments his firms invest in.

Locol
As for pitching, we had Sriniva Nag Mandali from Hyderabad, India, pitched Locol, a flexible fleet access solution for tour operators and municipal governments a la Uber, but in a B-to-B context. Very cool!

ViaMaan
Next, Rahul Sharma from Bangalore, India, pitched ViaMaan, an aerial cargo delivery solution. Also very cool.

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Roundtable Recap: October 11 – Global Startup Acceleration Networks are Growing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as a guest Shuly Galili, Founding Partner, UpWest Labs, who talked to us about pre-seed and seed investments in the Israel – Silicon Valley corridor.

Sensfix
As for pitching, we had Balaji Renukumar from Palo Alto, California, pitching Sensfix, an IOT-based venture addressing the repair and maintenance of street lights and other infrastructure assets. Very cool company, and a great example of how various eco-systems are collaborating to produce new startups. This one has been accelerated in India and in Amsterdam, before showing up in Palo Alto.

We also discussed our new partnership with EIT Health to accelerate over 100 European Startups. More on this coming soon.

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Roundtable Recap: October 4 – Diversity in Focus

During this week’s roundtable, we had as a guest Miriam Rivera, Partner at Ulu Ventures, a firm committed to diversity as its core investment philosophy.

undivide
As for the pitches, first up, we had Mohan Perera from Melbourne, Australia, pitching undivide, a compliance management software for blue collar workforces.

The Fractal Entrepreneurship Foundation
Then Radha Eswar from Bangalore, India, pitched The Fractal Entrepreneurship Foundation, a network of bottom-of-the-pyramid franchises focused on generating livelihoods in a systematic way. Very interesting.

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Roundtable Recap: September 27 – Fall 2018 Oracle-1Mby1M Intrapreneurship Challenge Launches

During this week’s roundtable, we had a lot of attendees from Oracle. The Fall 2018 Oracle-1Mby1M Intrapreneurship Challenge launched this week. To all those getting excited about applying, please have a look at this interview I did with Paolo Juvara of Oracle Application Labs this Spring.

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Roundtable Recap: September 19 – Startup Opportunities in Blockchain

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Brock Pierce, Co-Founder at Blockchain Capital, who discussed his worldview of the Blockchain investment opportunity. Brock is one of the pioneers of investing in Blockchain companies.

RVLhub.com
As for the pitches, first up, we had Paulius Vegele from Copenhagen, Denmark, pitching RVLhub.com, a platform where buyers specify what they want to buy and for what budget level, and sellers can make bids to sell them those goods and services.

MyHomeBuy
Then Eileen Merriman from Australia pitched MyHomeBuy, an app to educate first-time home buyers.

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