Refresh Miami

A new dean. A new campus. And a blunt question for higher ed in Miami: what if a university was built more like a startup?

@CarnegieMellon Miami’s founding dean, Jignesh Patel, says legacy structures can slow down collaboration, and this campus is a chance to design around real-world problems and entrepreneurship from day one.

The way he wants to organize teams and partnerships is the twist.

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$64M into a Boynton Beach startup with a sharp thesis: the slowest part of book publishing is everything after the manuscript.

Spines says it is at a $50M revenue run rate after 400% YoY growth, and more than 8,000 US authors have published through its AI-powered platform.

The structure of the financing, and what it signals about creator-economy infrastructure in South Florida, is the part to watch.

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$5.5M just went into a Miami-headquartered startup betting that tutoring can finally feel truly 1:1, without the 1:1 price tag.

Astral’s origin story starts with a parent watching her daughter flip from “not a math person” to calling math her favorite subject, once the teaching approach matched how she learns.

Who led the round, and what the team is building next, is the part to watch.

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We've seen some pretty cool tech offices, but this one is definitely different 📷

Our latest 'Inside Miami Tech' takes you behind the scenes at @joinbobai, the Miami fintech that recently raised $5.5M from @peterthiel, @zachperret, @Codie_Sanchez & @markpinc.

Check out their space, meet some of the team, and learn what it takes to work at BOB 👀

“Why Miami?” is a question Jason Inasi heard for years, back when building tech here felt like swimming against the current.

He founded The Factory Interactive in 1998, rode through every version of Miami’s tech identity, and stayed long enough to watch the talent equation flip.

What he says Miami uniquely gives founders, and what was hardest early on, is the part that hits home.

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