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Jessica Mahoney's name now shares space in the U.S. patent archives with Thomas Edison's. "Not bad," she joked. Mahoney, founder and CEO of Miami-based ImaageQ, earned that distinction after traveling to Washington, D.C., to defend the company's patented

When Yash Daftary was 15, investors loved his startup idea. They just weren't convinced by the founder. After being turned away time and again because of his age, he crisscrossed the country pitching at startup competitions instead, eventually raising eno

HealthSnap began with a failure that CEO Samson Magid saw up close. His grandfather lived with heart failure and type 2 diabetes, but much of his condition went unmonitored between medical appointments. Eventually, poorly managed diabetes led to the amput

Investors back companies for all sorts of reasons. It's not every day they back one where success could ultimately be measured in lives saved. Miami-based XSponse recently secured a strategic investment from Armory Capital, giving the school safety startu

Walk through enough tech conferences and you'll start noticing a pattern. A few years ago, every major booth wanted to show off an electric vehicle. This year, according to Guident Chairman and CEO Harald Braun, the cars had largely disappeared. "They wer

For an ambitious startup founder, $75,000 can be the first institutional vote of confidence. It gives runway, sure - but, more crucially, it's the check that helps transform an idea into a company worth watching. Florida Funders (FLF) and the Institute fo

Inside many American banks, employees still spend four or five hours a day making sure one system agrees with another. The work is repetitive and invisible to customers, yet it persists beneath an industry promising instant payments and increasingly intel