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A new vertical chapter is emerging in Downtown Miami. Over the past few years, Miami has transformed into a global capital hub — attracting institutional investors, developers, entrepreneurs, and families from around the world. But every global city eventually defines a district that represents its vertical ambition. Today, we are introducing: Miami Super Tall Quarter™ A designated vertical district in Downtown Miami defined by iconic architecture, elevated living, hospitality integration, wellness culture, and next-generation mixed-use development. At its epicenter stands The James Residence — a super-tall residential and hospitality tower designed not simply as a building, but as the founding anchor of a new skyline identity. The vision is clear: • Height with purpose • Luxury with community • Capital with culture • Architecture with longevity This is not about one project. It’s about shaping a vertical ecosystem. Downtown Miami is rising — and the Quarter is taking form. More to come. #Miami #DowntownMiami #SuperTall #RealEstateDevelopment #CapitalMarkets #Hospitality #TheJamesResidence #UrbanDevelopment

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Echoing everything our partner at NextMe, John Y., shared about BizBash Connect + Innovation Forum in Miami. What a week! 👙 First, Huge shoutout to our team for making it happen! Luisaura Alvarez, M.S. . Reynaldo Tavarez, and John Y.. You debuted our 'Smart Stations' inside the Innovation Forum and brought our vision to life for attendees! Why this matters for event planners + brand advertisers Our 'Smart Stations' are more than mirrors — they are a dynamic media channel built for live events. Think about the opportunities: 💡 Play sponsor video content to promote a new product or partnership 💡 Drive traffic instantly to social channels, apps, or websites with QR codes 💡 Display event schedules, maps, or stage agendas where attendees look 💡 Run quick polls, surveys, or gamified experiences to boost engagement 💡 Provide sponsor ad space that rotates by brand, message, or time of day 💡 Seamlessly integrate into exhibitor booths, lounges, VIP areas, and entryways without taking extra floor space 💡 Capture impressions in high-traffic zones like festival entrances, conference check-ins, and venue hallways 💡 And of course, power the must-have Conference Salon + Headshot Lounge, where beauty, branding, and connection collide Why it is game changing: For planners + advertisers, 'Smart Stations' turn everyday attendee moments into measurable impressions. It is utility plus branding working together to maximize ROI and amplify sponsor visibility in the exact moments people are paying attention. 'Smart Stations' are not just another piece of tech on the floor. They are more than signage. It's a new category of experiential media that transforms waiting, watching, and wanting. Thank you again BizBash for the opportunity and also to our friends at SpotMyPhotos for capturing attendees at their best! go MLR is the real pioneer weaving beauty + tech into live events. While we don't always get the recognition for being innovative, we are super grateful to leaders like Michela Giovannotto for giving us the platform to showcase our talent and experiences! Next up Shoptalk Fall in Chicago... where you can experience our new 'Smart Stations' for yourself! 👀

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We’re thrilled to be a meaningful partner in Kavak.com's $300M Series F alongside Andreessen Horowitz and WCM Investment Management. It’s hard as an investor to find an N-of-1 company; it’s meaningfully harder for a founder to build one. Today, Kavak.com is Latin America’s leading platform for buying, selling, financing, and servicing used cars. It closed 2025 with ~120k transactions (+40% YoY), reached its first month of consolidated global profitability in December, and has financed $1B+ for customers since inception. Most remarkably, more than 40% of their customers were first time car buyers — and in Latin America, car ownership can completely transform a person’s livelihood.   When Carlos Garcia Ottati and his team started, the basic plumbing for a functioning used-car market simply didn't exist. In Kavak’s markets, the process was informal, high-friction, and uncertain, with customers facing fraud risk in up to 40% of transactions. Everything we're familiar with in the U.S. — reliable inspections, professional refurbishment, standardized pricing, consumer financing, and structured resale channels — were capabilities Kavak had to build from scratch over a decade. They created trust in a category where it was scarce, and in doing so, a valuable consumer brand.    Kavak isn't just a marketplace. It’s something rarer — part retailer, part logistics network, part lender, and emerging AI powerhouse — and it somehow runs as one. That integration creates an information advantage: proprietary, longitudinal data on how cars are bought, priced, financed, and used, which helps them apply AI to improve decisions at scale.   Many AI beneficiaries won’t look like AI companies at first glance. And while the physical economy has historically made tech investors uncomfortable, it's where Lingotto has leaned in most — where we see some of the largest markets and most durable moats forming over the next decade.    Huge respect to Carlos Garcia Ottati and the team for building the hard thing first — now they get to scale it. In his words, “we have less than 1% of the market, and the best companies create more than 95% of their value after year 15.”   📰: https://lnkd.in/eYvc67j9   Carlos Garcia Ottati Jaime Macaya Moises Flores Botello Isabella S.   #Lingotto #LingottoInnovation #LingottoInvestment cc Clemente Dadoo Lomeli

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🇨🇱 AP Companies recently opened a full-service office in Chile. Their office in Santiago now serves as a launchpad for expanding into neighbouring markets including Argentina, Peru, and Brazil. 🎙️ CEO Natalya Butakova spoke to ITIJ about strengthening and expanding their presence in other markets, geopolitics, and what’s next for the company. AP Companies Global Health Management. Since 1997 | ITIJ: International Travel & Health Insurance Journal | #healthcare | #CostContainment | #telemedicine | #MentalHealth | #MedicalInflation | #MedicalAssistance 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eqakRHFZ

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Rediscovering Innovation: Tulum Energy’s Journey with Hydrogen Tech Tulum Energy's ability to leverage a two-decade-old curiosity into a groundbreaking hydrogen technology demonstrates how revisiting forgotten ideas can yield significant insights and funding—$27M in this case. At ElevenX Capital, we believe this is a testament to the importance of innovation in energy solutions. How do you evaluate the long-term potential of seemingly outdated technologies in your investment strategies? #investing #innovation #venturecapital #entrepreneurship

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This is an excellent report on the #VC activity in Florida for the first half of 2025, put together by our partner,s eMerge Americas. 💡 5 Takeaways from the eMerge Americas 1H 2025 Florida VC Insights Report: 1. Startups across Florida raised $2.85B across 270 deals, putting 2025 on pace for the strongest year since 2022. 2. AI dominates, 33% of all funded startups are AI-focused, with $830M raised in South Florida alone. 3. Cybersecurity and defense tech are booming, with Tampa emerging as “Cyber Bay” and major new AI-cyber programs launching. 4. Fintech, climatetech & Web3 continue to shine, with record funding and renewed investor confidence in Miami. 5. “If you’re not investing in AI, you’re asleep at the wheel,” says Me! https://lnkd.in/eVb-eYA9

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Excited to share this important milestone for us at Mundi Ventures. The first closing of Mundi Ventures LatAm Fund I marks a strong step forward in our long-term commitment to Latin America and the Caribbean, a region with exceptional entrepreneurial talent and significant untapped potential in the growth investing stage. Through our previous global funds, we’ve already had the privilege of backing companies like Sami, Betterfly, Raincoat and Olé life, supporting founders expanding access to financial and health protection across the region. With this new fund, we are doubling down on that mission, investing in the next generation of AI-driven companies across fintech, insurtech, healthtech, cybersecurity and climate, helping close the protection gap and strengthen resilience at scale. Grateful to partner with such a strong group of LPs, including IDB Invest, COFIDES and leading insurance players. This is just the beginning. 🔗 Read more below

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Today we officially kick off our $2M pre seed round for Salubrum (Backed by Forum Ventures), supported by Forum Ventures, Coeus Collective Ventures, and Draper House Americas. Healthcare companies spend over $30B a year trying to acquire patients. The problem is not media. The problem is timing. Every time a patient approaches a healthcare decision a moment opens. Which doctor to see. Which procedure to pursue. Which treatment to start. For the companies involved in that decision, knowing that moment exists is incredibly valuable. Salubrum (Backed by Forum Ventures) is building the intelligence layer that maps those decision moments across the U.S. patient population. Our system aggregates large healthcare datasets covering 300M+ patient identities and uses them to predict when individuals are approaching important healthcare decisions. That signal can then be used by providers, pharma companies, payers, and other healthcare organizations trying to reach patients at the right time. Our first wedge is patient acquisition for healthcare providers and brands, but the underlying intelligence layer has much broader applications wherever patient behavior influences economic decisions. Over the past months we have quietly built the foundation. • Early pilots validating our patient intent scoring system • Distribution partnerships forming across healthcare platforms • Backed by Forum Ventures, Coeus Collective Ventures, Draper House Americas, NEXT Canada and Metta World Peace Starting tomorrow we will be meeting investors as part of the Forum Ventures showcase. If you are an investor interested in building with us get in touch. Calendly: https://lnkd.in/e5j-VvGC Investor Memo: https://lnkd.in/e5HyemAp

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🚀 Draper Founder Spotlight: FRANCISCO RAMIREZ, CEO of MEDPLACE CHILE Draper House Americas Draper Startup House Three years ago, Francisco made the bold decision to leave a senior role in healthcare to tackle one of Latin America’s biggest medical challenges: the shortage of doctors and nurses to cover hospital shifts. That leap gave birth to Medplace, a platform connecting validated health professionals with hospitals and clinics to ensure surgeries and procedures aren’t canceled for lack of staff. 📈 In just 24 months: 20+ clients onboarded 30,000+ professionals using the platform 19,000+ shifts covered across Chile, Brazil, and now expanding to Argentina & Mexico Francisco joined the Draper Founders Program in Chile, won the competition, and earned a scholarship to Draper University in Silicon Valley. That experience — as he says — “opened my head to the real scale of what’s possible.” On #StartupSounds by Draper House Americas 👉 Watch his full story here: https://lnkd.in/dZZGRGhX 🎧 Or listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dT6-vmzT We’re proud to see Draper Startup House founders transforming industries. 🌍

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🌎 Financing the Future of Latin America Talking with (and learning from) the extraordinaire Harvard University educated Reinaldo Fioravanti, PhD this afternoon here at Martin's Tavern, Estd. 1933 in Georgetown about international development lending. The questions abound, and the answers are often as elusive as complex. Questions such as: 🔹 How can we finance infrastructure that drives growth while reducing environmental impact? 🔹 How do we design pro-poor strategies so that new roads, ports, and digital networks also reduce poverty and expand opportunity? 🔹 How can development lending help build local capital markets and expand retail banking—without crowding out the very commercial banks we want to strengthen? It is easy to build a road, a bridge or a power plant. It is way harder to do it involving local capital markets through PPPs, and getting local banks to lend to adjacent private sector players, pulverizing capital dispersion in the system, distributing economic growth through different layers of market players. That’s my two cents… #InternationalDevelopment #SustainableFinance #LatinAmerica #Infrastructure #EmergingMarkets #DevelopmentFinance #ppp #publicprivatepartnership #p3 • Inter-American Development Bank • The World Bank • International Monetary Fund • CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- • United Nations 🇺🇳 Asian Development Bank (ADB) African Development Bank Group United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) And the leaders on this topic: Makhtar Diop Anna Bjerde Carlos Felipe Jaramillo William Maloney Ayat Soliman

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🎤 On this week's Sound Investments, we welcome the fabulous Pablo Casilimas of OneSixOne Ventures Pablo is leaning into a community-first approach to building a new VC fund, focusing on the untapped potential of regions like Seattle and Miami. Whether you're a seasoned investor or an aspiring founder, this is a fun one. 🔊 Catch a short highlight reel below and listen to the full pod on all platforms. https://pod.fo/e/2ea491 #VentureCapital #VC #Startups #Podcast

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Proud moment for our team. 🫒 We just helped land coverage in GB News for our client Peter George Matos DO, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM — spotlighting something most people overlook about the Mediterranean diet: it's not just what you eat, it's what's in what you eat. Dr. Matos put it simply: "The polyphenol content of Mediterranean cuisine represents perhaps its most under-appreciated advantage." That quote is now in front of millions of readers. But stepping back from the placement for a moment — This win belongs to two people who've spent their careers turning ancient wisdom into rigorous science. Stefanos Kales — Professor at Harvard Medical School, over 200 published studies, and one of the most important voices in global Mediterranean diet research. His work has shown that adherence to a Mediterranean lifestyle reduces all-cause mortality by 29% and cancer mortality by 28%. That's not a diet trend. That's a body of evidence decades in the making. Peter George Matos DO, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM — founder of O-Liv and a physician who has dedicated his practice to occupational and preventive medicine, with a particular focus on the metabolic power of olive-based polyphenols. He's doing the rare work of translating deep science into something people can actually use in their daily lives. The media coverage is great. But what we're really grateful for is the privilege of helping amplify work that genuinely matters to people's health. Thank you, Dr. Matos and Dr. Kales. The world is healthier because of what you've built. 🔗 Read the full article in GB News https://lnkd.in/enA9PaKD #MediterraneanDiet #PublicHealth #EarnedMedia #Polyphenols #PreventiveMedicine #PR

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🔔 Attention Miami founders, investors, and startup ecosystem players! 🔔 If you're raising or thinking about it, this is one you won't want to miss. Very excited to be participating on this panel tomorrow night (March 17th) at The LAB Miami, where we will bring 5 distinct fundraising perspectives together for what promises to be an insightful conversation. Here's who's on the panel: 🦄 2x Founder Michael Assraf - $60M raised across 2 companies (Vicarius and Flamingo) 💸 VC investor Anuj Maheshwari, CFA of Fuel Venture Capital - an investor in Replit's $3B Series C round 😇 Angel investor Sonja Markova - Executive Director at University of Miami Cane Angel Network 🚀 Serial entrepreneur Sam Payrovi of ARKHAUS - pursued alternative funding and raised across crowdfunding and private investors 📈 Early-stage investor & advisor Ryan Martin (me!) - Managing Partner at Five Spheres and Investor-in-Residence at Seaworthy Collective Moderated by Grace U. - angel investor and Director of Founder Institute Miami. We'll get into the things nobody puts in a pitch deck: → When you're too early to raise (and what to do instead) → How angels and VCs actually evaluate early-stage companies → What fundraising mistakes keep costing founders → Why "alternative" funding isn't a consolation prize If you're building in Miami, this conversation was designed for you. 📍 The LAB Miami | ⏰ 6:00 PM | 🗓️ March 17th Hosted by Founder Institute - the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, with an alumni base that's raised $2B+ in funding. RSVP link in the comments 👇

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In early-stage VC, conviction is a virtue and a strategy. At Draper Cygnus we invest in deep tech latino founders when their vision is still invisible to most of the market. That’s what being thesis-driven means: making decisions based on long-term belief, not short-term signals. In early stage, you don’t have a perfect product or traction metrics, but: 👉 A founder’s clarity of purpose 👉 How they navigate uncertainty and rejection 👉 The depth of their obsession with the problem they’re solving 👉 Their ability to attract a world-class team These are not soft factors. They are strategic indicators of a founder’s potential to build something that can reshape industries and the future. And when we choose to invest, it’s not a transaction. It’s a long-term commitment to help those founders turn invisible ideas into global impact. #DeepTech #VentureCapital #DraperCygnus

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Is it possible to fight poverty while also making a profit? Quona Capital shows it is, leveraging fintech to revolutionize financial services in emerging markets. 🚀 Join me in this interview with Monica Brand Engel, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quona Capital. Monica leads a visionary venture fund focused on fintech solutions that promote financial inclusion across Asia, Latin America, and Africa. With assets totaling $760 million and operations in major hubs like Mexico City, Bengaluru, Jakarta, and Cape Town, Quona Capital introduces advanced financial services tailored for underserved communities. 💡 Learn how their custom digital payments, lending platforms, and neo-banking services bridge the gap between sophisticated financial infrastructures and the needs of emerging markets. 🌐 Tune in to learn about Monica's journey from a multicultural background to spearheading initiatives that empower millions and prove profitable in the most unexpected places. 🎧: https://lnkd.in/e4Aiw_Pw #SRI360 #ImpactInvesting #FinTech #Sustainability #FinancialInclusion #EmergingMarkets

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Great insights on the LatAm SaaS ecosystem — increasing number of companies reaching scale and tech founders are optimistic about the growth opportunity in the region and globally

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𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬. This week on #WomenRaisingTheBar ⚖️, we spotlight brilliant founders securing funding and building bold solutions across Europe and LATAM. From sustainable biotech and mobility to sports innovation — these women are showing what’s possible. 🇩🇪 Larissa Ruf & Greta G. – BiMA raises €500K to launch a screen-free projector for children 🇫🇷 Adèle James – Phagos raises €25M to create a sustainable alternative to antibiotics 🇩🇪 Helena Most – Resourcly secures €2.7M to cut manufacturing inventory inefficiencies 🇪🇸 Paloma Långstrum – TRIBBU raises €2M to end the lonely commute and tackle carbon emissions 🇲🇽 Natalia Salcedo Franco – PITZ raises $2.1M in one of LatAm’s largest pre-seed rounds 👏👏👏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 — 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. The bar keeps rising. The capital is following. — 👋 I’m Anais, founder of Amela — a global network supporting women founders. Every Saturday, we spotlight the women raising the bar. #WomenRaisingTheBar #FemaleFounders #VC #Startups #Amela ♻️ Found this inspiring? Repost to amplify women raising capital. ⚡ Want more stories like this? Hit follow.

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Proud to see chatlyn included in Nauta Capital’s new piece on the real B2B opportunities in traveltech. Big thanks to Nauta Capital and Andrea Oliver Garcia for the mention. My takeaway as a hotel-tech founder: the most durable wins sit in the “less visible” layers: • Post-booking & operations: where integrations and workflows create real stickiness. • Infrastructure & distribution: abstracting legacy complexity to unlock new channels. • Group, corporate, luxury: high-value, complex segments that need modern tooling. This is exactly where we focus at chatlyn: making guest communication and ops run faster, smarter, and more personal for hotel teams. Full read in the comments 👇

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Exploring the rapid growth of deep tech in Latin America: its potential, hurdles, and strategies. Dive into the insights from Access Partnership. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCxmDJD3 #DeepTech #LatinAmerica

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