New Miami Investor Groups

Meet Miami's newest investor groups | The Starting Gate: " . . . .“The panel was world-class and the discussion helped us all get a better grasp on the increasing availability of venture capital in the South Florida region," said Nestor Villalobos, founder of Arctico and a Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge finalist this week (at left). He believes South Florida is quickly emerging as "the place to be for startups across the country looking to start or grow their businesses.” Glen Surnamer, COO of Bookigee, said he too thought the area is hitting an inflexion point. “I think the Miami early stage scene is becoming more comfortable being Miami, rather than trying to be the Bay, NY, Boston, Austin, etc.  This is important because each of those scenes emerged organically out of very specific sociological, demographic and economic circumstances,” Surnamer said. “The point here is that Miami entrepreneur culture has to organically germinate out of the seeds that underpin us. This is clearly starting to happen.”. . . " (read more at link above)

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