AI & Data
Applied-AI and data startups spanning every other Florida sector.
Organizations
University of Florida
Florida's flagship research university and a source of deep-tech spinouts.
AccelerOnc Studio
Moffitt Cancer Center's venture studio building oncology-focused startups, billed as the first U.S. venture studio dedicated to oncology.
Actuate Ventures
Deep-tech and space-tech venture firm and venture studio backing early-stage founders.
Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation
A public-private innovation center and startup incubator run by Nova Southeastern University and Broward County.
Drive Capital
Columbus VC backing Pieces.
DualForce Labs
Miami company building secure marketplace and integration infrastructure for vetted defense and dual-use technologies.
Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County
Public-private economic development partnership diversifying Sarasota County's economy across tech, life sciences, and clean tech.
eMerge Americas National Security 
Partner
eMerge Americas' national security platform connecting dual-use startups with government buyers, investors, and defense partners in Miami.
EX3 Labs
Digital tech studio (Adam Wisniewski CEO)
FIU Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy
Florida International University institute for defense, national security, and cybersecurity policy research and workforce training.
Florida Community Innovation
A civic-technology nonprofit engaging student innovators to build public-service tech for Floridians.
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Pensacola-based state research institute working on AI, robotics, cybersecurity, and human resilience.
Fuel Venture Capital
Miami-founded venture capital firm investing seed through growth stage across technology sectors.
Google for Startups
Corporate accelerator/cloud program
ITEN WIRED
Pensacola nonprofit tech community hosting the Southeast's annual ITEN WIRED / TechNet CyberCoast summit.
Jax Angel Group
The largest and most active angel investment group in North Florida, seed-funding early-stage tech startups.
Lab22c
Miami innovation consultancy and ecosystem connector that co-leads the local DoD-backed Rapid Innovation Accelerator.
Las Olas Venture Capital
An early-stage B2B software venture firm in South Florida.
Misfit Labs
Miami-based AI-native venture studio that co-builds and scales technology companies, including defense and dual-use ventures.
Nyca Partners
Fintech VC that led Loop AI's $14M Series A.
Palantir Technologies
Data/defense-tech firm relocating HQ to West Palm Beach ('Gold Coast')
Rapid Innovation Accelerator - Miami (RIA-Miami)
DoD-backed Miami accelerator helping small businesses win federal defense contracts and SBIR awards.
ReliaQuest
Tampa cybersecurity unicorn ($3.4B)
Silicon Beach
The Jacksonville Innovation Hub's in-house accelerator and hybrid venture studio focused on commercializing technology startups.
South Florida TechGateway
A public-private technology initiative led by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance to grow and attract tech business, capital, and talent.
St. Petersburg Innovation District
A nonprofit-led innovation district in St. Petersburg anchoring life sciences, marine science, and health research institutions.
TechFarms Capital
Panama City Beach venture capital firm making seed and early-stage investments in Southeastern US tech startups.
TheVentureCity
Global early-stage venture fund with a Miami hub investing in product-led, data- and AI-driven startups.
USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing
First named US college focused on AI/cybersecurity/computing
UWF Center for Cybersecurity and AI
University of West Florida center anchoring Pensacola's 'Cyber Coast' cybersecurity workforce and research.
Startups
Actualization.AI
AI hallucination-resistant document-intelligence platform for contract review and AI security (TireKicker).
Admiral
AI-powered marketing-automation / Visitor Relationship Management platform for digital publishers.
AgriBugs
Builds autonomous, solar-powered drone ports that launch pilotless field missions to deliver frequent RGB and multispectral crop-health insights.
Agriculture Intelligence
Developed Agroview, an AI cloud platform that analyzes drone and aerial imagery to give citrus and specialty-crop growers precision data on tree health, count, and nutrients.
AIroraSense
AI verification platform validating completed work on electric-distribution infrastructure.
Allsource Data Corporation
AI-native marketing platform turning first-party data into high-converting audiences (SmartAudiences).
amni.ai
AI-powered supply-chain transparency/validation platform for FDA-regulated industries.
Availity
Operates one of the largest real-time health information networks in the US, connecting providers, health plans, and technology partners for administrative and clinical data exchange.
Baifokal
AI-supported financial-reporting platform turning complex data into actionable insights.
BiaTech Corporation
AI/multimodal fusion technology optimizing upstream energy and power-generation operations.
Brookwell
Agentic AI platform digitizing and streamlining wealth-management advisor transitions.
CarePredict
Eldertech company using wearable devices and AI-powered software to detect behavioral changes and predict health risks in seniors.
CaresLink
AI-driven healthcare workforce platform for credentialing, hiring and education.
Certus Core
Data & AI company building semantic knowledge graphs (sKG) and the IBIS platform for defense, government and enterprise.
Chattr
Enterprise conversational-AI frontline hiring and onboarding platform for hourly workers.
COI Energy
Full-service AI-enabled digital energy-management company decarbonizing buildings by eliminating energy waste.
CooperCast
AI sales-forecasting and commercial-planning platform for beverage alcohol.
DAGR Group
AI narrative-intelligence and decision-support platform detecting information threats in open-source environments.
Deepblocks
Deepblocks offers AI-driven real estate development software that digitizes zoning data and instantly estimates costs, returns and feasibility for site selection.
Directlend AI
AI platform matching small-business owners directly with suitable lenders.
Dono
Dono uses AI to scrape and collate public property records, making property ownership data instantly accessible to lenders, mortgage servicers and real estate investors.
Elucid8 Augur
AI-native market-intelligence platform for government contracting.
eMed
Digital health company providing telehealth-guided at-home diagnostic testing and an agentic AI platform, expanding into weight management and employer healthcare payment models.
eSkuad
Rugged field-data platform replacing paper reports with custom forms and workflows.
Flexmode
AI platform powering partner matching, curated events and venue recommendations.
Forcura (now Mosai)
Healthcare workflow and HIPAA-compliant communication and document-management software for home health and post-acute care providers.
Fractio
Workforce-development platform scaling in-house teams via pay-as-you-go fractional workloads (Fractio Boost).
GameDrive
AI esports analytics and talent-discovery platform turning gameplay into recruiter-ready profiles.
GladysDrift
Quantum-enhanced optimization for data-center operations and energy reduction.
GRIP Intelligence
Embarc member company (data/intelligence) presenting at Synapse Summit.
HealthBird
AI-powered mobile platform and app for comparing, enrolling in, and managing US health insurance plans.
HealthSnap
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) platform that helps healthcare providers launch and scale virtual chronic-care programs.
Iteright
AI-powered Growth Navigation Platform to track, validate and optimize product/technology investments.
Kore.ai
Kore.ai builds enterprise-grade conversational and generative AI agents that automate customer and employee interactions for large organizations.
LifeHub
AI-powered edtech platform rewarding kids and young adults for learning.
Loop AI
Agentic AI platform automating restaurant/retail back-office finance, operations and marketing.
Mark.tech
Chat-friendly AI marketing platform creating landing pages, email campaigns and ad analytics.
MelMat AI
Multi-LLM research-intelligence platform synthesizing results from multiple AI models.
Modernizing Medicine (ModMed)
Cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and revenue cycle software built with practicing physicians for specialties like dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics.
Myelai
AI platform helping businesses navigate operational complexity and connect with tech/marketing partners.
NoteBridge
AI platform helping community lenders replace foreclosure with borrower-friendly resolution strategies.
Notice Ninja
Tax-compliance SaaS platform that uses AI and machine learning to automate the management of tax notices for businesses.
Ondas Inc.
Ondas builds autonomous drone platforms and counter-drone systems, including the American Robotics Optimus drone-in-a-box for 24/7 automated ISR and security operations.
OneRail
OneRail is a last-mile delivery orchestration platform that connects enterprise retailers and wholesalers to a network of couriers for same-day and scheduled fulfillment.
OpenEvidence
AI-powered clinical decision-support platform (a 'ChatGPT for doctors') that lets verified physicians run evidence-based medical consultations grounded in peer-reviewed literature.
Orchid Healthcare Technologies
AI platform providing pre-submission claim defensibility for medical groups and hospitals.
Packfiles
Embarc member company named a TBBJ 2025 Startup to Watch.
Pathi Health
AI digital-health platform helping cancer patients explore treatments and locate clinical trials.
Pieces
AI on-device workflow assistant with long-term memory that helps developers capture and reuse code and knowledge.
Quant Fusion
B2B SaaS platform automating order-management tasks to stem margin loss using AI/ML.
Satisfi Labs
Conversational/agentic AI platform for the sports, entertainment and tourism industries (~800 clients).
Sensable
AI assistive wearable making physical businesses accessible to the visually impaired.
ShyftOff
On-demand contact-center staffing platform with a 17,000+ US agent pool.
Sidus Space
Sidus Space designs, builds and operates low-cost, rapidly scalable satellites and delivers space-based data and predictive analytics as a mission partner from concept to low Earth orbit.
SkyTL
AI-powered mission-management and decision-intelligence platform for wildfires and multi-hazard disaster response (WindTL, TAGS).
SortIQ
AI textile-sorting solution using Meta Ray-Ban glasses for hands-free garment ID and grading.
Spontivly
Real-time community/data analytics dashboard platform for B2B teams.
Stablein Solutions
AI cybersecurity-automation framework for logistics and manufacturing.
Teal
Teal is an AI-powered career platform offering a resume builder, job tracker, job board and interview coach to help job seekers navigate applicant tracking systems.
TENEX.AI
Sarasota AI cybersecurity company (non-Embarc) that reached unicorn status.
Tesseract Ventures
Builds advanced robotics, autonomous drones and AI 'smart ecosystems' (NOMAD, PRISM, MOSAIC, ECHO) for defense, agriculture and energy.
Timegility
AI-enabled time-strategy and workflow platform.
Titl
Titl is modernizing title search and property verification using AI and a tamper-resistant blockchain ledger to speed up real estate closings.
Trustate
AI-enabled estate and trust administration platform for law firms.
Vitals AI
AI platform automating practice reporting and identifying bottlenecks for financial advisors.
Wrench Node
AI shop-management platform automating notes, scheduling and invoicing for auto-repair shops.
Wytebox
AI process-intelligence platform auto-generating project documentation and tickets from team activity.
XTEND
XTEND builds human-guided autonomous drone and robotic systems (its XOS operating system) for rapid-response ISR, counter-UAS and border-protection missions across air, ground and maritime domains.
Industry players
CentralSquare Technologies
CentralSquare Technologies is a Lake Mary, Florida-based public-sector software company providing computer-aided dispatch, public-safety, and public-administration systems to more than 7,500 government agencies.
Chewy
Chewy is an online retailer of pet food, supplies and pet-health products headquartered in Plantation, Florida, operating fulfillment centers and a growing pet-telehealth and pharmacy business.
Citadel / Citadel Securities
Citadel is a global alternative investment manager and Citadel Securities is a leading market maker, both founded by Ken Griffin and now headquartered in Miami's Brickell district with a planned 54-story global headquarters.
Cloud Software Group
Cloud Software Group is the private holding company formed in 2022 by Vista Equity Partners' merger of Citrix and TIBCO, offering virtualization, application delivery, and data-integration software.
ConnectWise
ConnectWise is a Tampa-based software company providing business-management, remote monitoring, and cybersecurity tools built for managed service providers (MSPs) and technology solution providers.
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)
FIS is a global financial-technology company providing banking, payments and capital-markets software and processing to financial institutions worldwide, headquartered in Jacksonville and a member of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500.
Kaseya
Kaseya is a Miami-headquartered IT and security management software company selling network monitoring, backup and cybersecurity tools primarily to managed service providers and internal IT teams.
KnowBe4
KnowBe4 is a Clearwater-based security-awareness training and simulated-phishing platform company taken private by Vista Equity Partners in a $4.6 billion deal in 2023.
Magic Leap
Magic Leap is a Plantation, Florida-based spatial-computing company that designs augmented-reality optics, headsets and enterprise AR platforms, with in-house R&D and manufacturing facilities.
ModMed (Modernizing Medicine)
ModMed is a Boca Raton-based health-IT company whose specialty-specific EHR, practice management, revenue-cycle, and analytics software is used by tens of thousands of providers.
ReliaQuest
ReliaQuest is a Tampa-headquartered cybersecurity company whose AI-driven GreyMatter platform automates threat detection, investigation and response, valued at roughly $3.4 billion after a 2025 funding round.
Roper Technologies, Inc.
Roper Technologies is a Sarasota-based diversified technology holding company that acquires and operates market-leading vertical-software and engineered-products businesses.
TD SYNNEX
TD SYNNEX is a global IT products, services and solutions distributor and aggregator, co-headquartered in Clearwater, Florida and Fremont, California, serving roughly 2,500 technology vendors.
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
UKG is a workforce-management and human-capital-management software company formed in 2020 from the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, with a dual headquarters in Weston, Florida and Lowell, Massachusetts.