Refresh Miami

Miami-based wellness startup Nowful is challenging the grind mindset, the one that treats burnout like a badge of honor.

Founder Angélica Fuentes launched the app in August 2025, and it just ranked No. 3 on Newsweek’s list of top mindfulness apps, behind Calm and ahead of Headspace.

Instead of “do more,” Nowful is built around alleviation, with quick meditations, breathwork, journaling, and check-ins that fit into busy days.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/burnout-became-a-badge-of-honor-nowful-wants-to-change-that/

South Florida is showing up in a big way at this week’s Florida Venture Forum Early Stage Venture Conference, eight local startups made the presenting roster.

With 26 companies selected overall, this is a strong snapshot of what founders across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are building right now.

Drop a name we should be following as they pitch in Orlando.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/8-south-florida-startups-will-present-at-this-weeks-fvf-early-stage-venture-conference/

Somewhere between patient visits, doctors are opening AI coding tools and building their own workflows, and in Miami, Sofya is paying close attention.

Founder Igor Couto calls it “physician vibe coding,” and the bigger shift is that clinicians are getting comfortable collaborating with AI, not just evaluating it.

Sofya is building programmable clinical intelligence designed to adapt to how specific hospitals and physicians actually practice medicine.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/sofya-wants-to-turn-physician-vibe-coding-into-real-healthcare-ai/

For Dolphins fans, the NFL schedule release is not just dates, it is flight searches, hotel rates, and weekend plans.

Skyscanner just launched a Miami Dolphins travel planner for the 2026 to 2027 season, and it comes as the company expands its Americas operation from Miami and prepares for a larger Brickell office.

South Florida keeps showing up as the place where global tech companies want to hire and build.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/skyscanner-is-doubling-down-on-miami-and-betting-dolphins-fans-will-travel-with-it/

Autodesk just announced a $3.6B all-cash deal to acquire MaintainX - AI-Powered Maintenance and Asset Management Platform, the Miami and San Francisco scaleup powering maintenance, inspections, and work orders.

It is Autodesk’s largest acquisition ever, and a big bet that the data created after equipment is deployed will matter as much as the design phase.

Miami’s industrial tech story just got a lot louder.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/autodesk-makes-a-3-6-billion-move-onto-the-factory-floor-with-maintainx-acquisition/

Biscayne Bay is not just the view, it is a core piece of Miami’s economy, from real estate to tourism to coastal resilience.

At the 2026 Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit, scientists, policymakers, developers, and technologists mapped what it will take to restore the bay, and the big takeaway was clear: the plan exists, now the tech needs to scale.

Floating wetlands, living seawalls, stormwater, seagrass, and Everglades restoration were all on the table, and the opportunity for South Florida builders is real.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/biscayne-bay-has-a-restoration-plan-now-it-needs-the-tech-to-match/

Miami’s investrio.io started by helping young professionals tackle credit card debt, and it has since grown into a human-centered financial platform for small businesses.

Co-founders Joyce Medeiros and Laura Muriel Texidor are building around the real-world stress points of running a business, especially cash flow.

South Florida founders, what is the most painful money workflow you still do manually today?

https://refreshmiami.com/news/miami-startup-investrio-is-building-a-human-centered-financial-platform-for-small-businesses/

A huge chunk of wholesale distribution still runs on PDFs, spreadsheets, and phone calls, and Miami-based Canals thinks this is exactly where AI can have real impact.

Canals just announced a $35M funding round led by Base10 Partners, targeting an $8.2T market that is still stuck in messy workflows.

This is a South Florida startup tackling the boring stuff that keeps the economy moving.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/canals-raises-35m-to-make-wholesale-distribution-feel-a-little-less-like-fax-machine-america/

Miami tech stayed busy this week, starting with Blulabs raising $7M to keep building its global supply chain platform.

From Betr and OpenEvidence to INmune Bio, Endeavor Miami, Spearmint Energy, and Titan America’s innovation hub, the signals span consumer, health, climate, and industrial tech.

South Florida builders, this is your quick scan of what is compounding across the ecosystem.

https://refreshmiami.com/news/10-things-to-know-in-miamitech-a-fresh-funding-plus-news-from-betr-inmune-bio-i-squared-capital-openevidence-simpro-group-endeavor-miami-spearmint-energy-titan-americas-innovation/