• Miami office will help steer $5 billion Softbank Innovation Fund focused on Latin America (Refresh Miami)
• South Florida VC funding starts the year sluggishly, reports show (Refresh Miami)
• Bringing on the hip-hop, Nearpod acquires Flocabulary (Refresh Miami)
• Magic Leap and Dan Marino Foundation team up to tackle key autism challenge (Refresh Miami)
• Growing innovative ventures across the hemisphere (University of Miami)
• ChainBridge, South Florida's newest distillery, pours fruit brandy and vodka in Oakland Park  (Sun Sentinel)

• Pinterest files for an IPO and could be worth nearly $12 billion (CNN Business)
• A Record $2.5B Went to U.S. Insurance Startup Deals Last Year, And Big Insurers Are In All The Way (Crunchbase News)
• Amazon Go Faces Unlikely Challenge From Checkout-Free Startup (Bloomberg)
• To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself (TechCrunch)

Join Refresh Miami & Tech Beach for a fireside chat with Brian and Eric Dosal, founders of BrightGauge Software. Learn how these Miami-natives and brothers launched their business in 2010 in San Francisco, moved the company to Miami, grew it to a 34-person team in 5 years before getting acquired in January of this year. Discussion will cover:

• Building a company out of Miami vs. San Francisco
• Growing a profitable SaaS business
• Why they ultimately sold
• What they’re up to now

Join IE Business School and TheVentureCity for the 2019 Tech Venture Day, a cutting-edge, highly competitive program designed to identify and support start-ups that have the ability to have a positive impact on major challenges faced in business entities—whether private or public— so as to improve their operations thereby furthering the cause of innovation within the business place. 

6 start-ups will be selected to pitch based on their originality, financial viability, and ability to have a positive impact on major challenges faced in business.

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Time: 5:00PM – 10:00PM
Location: TheVentureCity, 2234 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135