Twenty-two Miami metro area startups were selected to present on stage at the upcoming 2026 Florida Venture Capital Conference. The annual conference, which this year will be Feb. 23-25 in Coral Gables, is put on by the Florida Venture Forum, the largest statewide support organization for investors and entrepreneurs.
In total, 54 companies, most but not all from Florida, were selected to present. In addition, the Forum selected nine additional companies that will participate in the conference but are not presenting on stage.
With the expanded programming of Growth, Early and Seed stage companies initiated last year, the Forum received a record number of applications for every category – nearly 300 in total and about 100 more than last year, said Kevin Burgoyne, President and CEO of the Florida Venture Forum. “Attendees at this year’s conference are in for something special.”
Here are the 22 presenting companies from South Florida (company descriptions provided by the Florida Venture Forum):
1Print (Wellington) is a 3D concrete printing company focused on coastal infrastructure and the built environment. The company uses additive manufacturing to produce hybrid green-gray coastal protection systems that outperform traditional seawalls and rip-rap. Its engineered, 3D-printed solutions stabilize shorelines, dissipate wave energy, and integrate habitat by design.
Arrivalist (Miami) is a tourism analytics and spend-intelligence SaaS platform that helps destination marketers measure and optimize marketing impact. Using privacy-safe mobility and credit-card spend data, Arrivalist shows where visitors come from, how they move through a destination, and how much they spend. Its dashboards translate this data into decision-ready insights on campaign performance, visitor segments, seasonality, ROI, and economic impact. www.arrivalist.com
bundleIQ (West Palm Beach) is an AI intelligence platform that transforms scattered information into verified, decision-ready insights. Its patented AI agent, Alani®, connects personal expertise, internal company data, and external sources, delivering answers that are fully cited and traceable to original documents. bundleIQ is trusted by Fortune 500 companies that require reliable, verifiable intelligence when decisions matter.
Captain Compliance (Fort Lauderdale) A B2B SaaS platform that automates data privacy compliance, helping organizations reduce legal risk and avoid costly regulatory fines and litigation.
Construct CRM (Delray Beach) is building a global e-commerce platform for building products and materials distributors. The company provides a contractor-focused CRM that captures online orders and sits alongside distributors’ ERPs to manage the full customer lifecycle—from contractor acquisition through fulfillment and accounts receivable. Expanding beyond online orders, Construct CRM is bringing email, text, and phone-based order intake into a single system, with AI-powered order processing and delivery-risk detection to reduce operational friction and insurance costs in a multi-trillion-dollar global industry.
Credible AI (Miami) is a verification platform providing a trust layer for AI-generated content on the internet. Its flagship product, Skim, verifies the credibility of articles, videos, and social content in real time by cross-referencing claims, assessing source reliability, and detecting AI hallucinations. Positioned as an intelligence layer between users and the web, Credible AI delivers vetted, summarized, and actionable information for knowledge workers and decision-makers.
Elyxm (Miami) is an AI-powered smart bar platform that prepares made-to-order cocktails in seconds with millimetric precision. Unlike batch or pre-mix systems, Elyxm pours each drink ingredient by ingredient, enabling real-time personalization of flavor, strength, and sweetness. Every pour generates ingredient-level taste data that continuously trains the platform’s machine-learning models, creating a connected and learning bar ecosystem.
Gospel Time (Miami) is the first and only platform that helps churches create a more engaged community. More engagement means more donations. With 97% of believers wanting more connection beyond Sunday Mass, Gospel Time delivers a 24/7 digital church experience that meets real demand and unlocks massive scalable impact.
H+Trace (Miami) is a healthtech company that uses data and AI to eliminate errors in clinical laboratories by monitoring and preventing failures in the pre-analytical workflow. The platform predicts sample degradation, delays, and compliance risks before testing begins, turning a major blind spot into a measurable, controllable process. H+Trace has safeguarded over 15 million samples and is expanding to 3,200 additional laboratories through a partnership with a leading external quality assessment organization.
Halo Halo Corp (Royal Palm Beach) is a digital platform blending storytelling, cultural exploration, and community engagement around Filipino-inspired content. The platform uses AI and proprietary methodologies to enable non-intrusive, content-native brand integrations while giving creators greater control over distribution and monetization. For audiences, HALO HALO delivers an immersive, ad-light environment to discover new cultures and digital content, including tools that convert comics into interactive scrolling formats.
Hobby Smart Case (Boynton Beach) is the first smart, connected storage case for graded collectibles, offering GPS tracking, climate monitoring, and security alerts.
Impatient Software (Lake Worth Beach) builds quantum-encrypted satellite tracking systems for critical land and maritime assets. Its platform combines secure hardware, Iridium satellite connectivity, and proprietary software to deliver assured positioning, navigation, and timing in denied or contested environments. The technology supports high-risk government and commercial operations where GPS and conventional connectivity are unreliable or insecure.
Inner Cosmos (Fort Lauderdale) is a neurotechnology company developing a drug-free, home-based treatment for depression and cognitive decline. Its “Digital Pill” is a minimally invasive implant that delivers targeted neurostimulation for treatment-resistant depression, eliminating the need for frequent clinic visits associated with traditional TMS therapy. Inner Cosmos is the first company in two decades to receive FDA IDE approval for a new depression device and has completed an FDA-approved feasibility study, with early results exceeding standard-of-care outcomes and demonstrating sustained remission.
Intellident Systems (Palmetto Bay) is an AI-native, cloud-based dental practice management platform designed to replace legacy software in the $10B+ U.S. dental market. Built AI-first, the platform automates clinical and administrative workflows including documentation, scheduling, insurance processing, imaging, and patient communication. Intellident is preparing for pilot deployments with dental practices, offering faster onboarding, lower training costs, and a modern alternative to incumbent systems.
LuftCar (West Palm Beach) is an advanced air mobility company developing hydrogen-powered heavy-lift eVTOL aircraft, modular vertiports, and an AI-based planning platform for long-range, zero-emission air logistics. Designed to overcome the range, payload, and cost limits of helicopters and battery eVTOLs, its integrated solution supports cargo, defense, healthcare, and disaster response missions. LuftCar has demonstrated early traction through prototypes, purchase orders, and government partnerships, and is positioning Florida as a hub for next-generation air mobility deployment.
My Blue Hero (West Palm Beach) is building an EMR platform designed specifically for neurodivergent children and the families supporting them. The software unifies providers, families, and educators in a single HIPAA- and FERPA-compliant workflow, streamlining care coordination across healthcare and education.
NovoDx (Jupiter) is an at-home diagnostics company developing the GoldN™ platform, a handheld reader and digital ecosystem that delivers lab-quality results in under 15 minutes. The platform supports a pipeline of 50+ tests across women’s health, fertility, oncology, infectious disease, cardiac care, and metabolic monitoring, with FDA-registered assays advancing toward clearance. Operating on a scalable, subscription-based model, NovoDx enables secure, HIPAA-compliant data sharing and is positioned at the intersection of consumer health, telehealth, and public health. www.novo-dx.com
PredictiveIQ (Parkland) builds Continuum, a physics-informed AI platform that combines engineering models with machine learning to predict performance and failure in complex physical systems. Designed for data-scarce environments, the platform generalizes across operating conditions and supports predictive maintenance and digital sustainment for heavy vehicles. PredictiveIQ works across defense and transportation, including commercial aerodynamics use cases and U.S. Army ground vehicle programs, with end-to-end deployment across edge and cloud environments.
Synchronyx (Boca Raton) is a digital health company building the medication layer of care through its Tappt platform. Tappt uses battery-free smart labels and a patient app to capture real-time, dose-level adherence and reasons for missed doses directly from medication packaging, without requiring EHR integration. Sold B2B through pharma, pharmacies, health systems, and clinical trials, the platform enables earlier intervention, improved therapy persistence, and generation of real-world evidence.
Tenille (Fort Lauderdale) is an advocacy and consulting firm specializing in accessibility, disability rights, and inclusive systems design. The firm partners with organizations to translate equity goals into practical strategies and measurable outcomes.
Xpece Drones (Coral Springs) designs, manufactures, and sells reliable waterproof drones built on proprietary modular hardware with U.S.-based fulfillment and service. The company generates recurring revenue through repairs, parts, and warranties and is expanding a global dealer network, with operations in Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. Initially serving the drone fishing market it pioneered in 2015, Xpece is positioned to expand U.S. manufacturing and supply compliant drones to government agencies, first responders, and allied countries.
Zulu Pods (Coral Springs, FL) is an aerospace and defense company that is focused on bringing innovative fluid delivery systems to the market that increase 1) range (for jet engines), 2) safety standards in the sky and 3) defense fleet readiness.
In addition, five Miami area companies were selected as “Spotlight” companies; they were invited to participate in the conference but won’t be presenting this year. They are 3rd-I of Miami, a real-time social safety platform; CrocAlarm of Miami Lakes, which is developing a sonar-first, real-time early-warning system for dangerous aquatic wildlife; THEIA JOBS of Miami, an AI-driven recruiting platform that uses interview agents to screen 100% of applicants instantly; Tolka AI Therapeutics of Miami, a biotech company developing precision therapies for hard-to-treat bacterial infections; and UnifyAMS of Miami, an agentic, all-in-one management platform for mid-to-large membership-driven organizations.
Since 1984, over 2,000 companies have presented at Forum events and have gone on to raise more than $30 billion in equity capital and contribute well over that amount in total economic value to Florida. Find out more about the conference here.
Pictured above: The 2025 Florida Venture Capital Conference kick-off reception. Find Refresh Miami’s 2025 coverage here.
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