Endeavor Miami selected nine ventures to participate in the latest cohort of its ScaleUp Program, a four-month accelerator designed to support promising startups with high-impact potential in Florida.
The selected startups will have access to a network of mentors and entrepreneurs who will share their expertise to help those companies scale.
"Our past participants have gone on to close funding rounds, enter new markets, make new key hires, and turbocharge their growth," said Claudia Duran, managing director of Endeavor Miami. "We're eager to watch these companies grow in the next few months and can't wait to see their impact on the greater Miami entrepreneurial ecosystem."
The program includes weekly four-hour group sessions with entrepreneurs; one-on-one mentoring; connections to capital and marketing; and a demo day when founders can pitch their ventures to local investors and business leaders.
Endeavor Miami was launched in 2013 with the support of the Knight Foundation. It's the first U.S. affiliate of Endeavor, a global nonprofit that has advised and helped scale more than 1,000 ventures in 37 markets across the world. Those companies have created an estimated 3.9 million jobs and $28 million in annual revenues.
The ScaleUp Cohort Four participants are:
- Akcelita, a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based startup that provides analytics and workflows to businesses in the retail grocery industry to help them keep track of on-shelf inventory.
- Angle, a Miami-based marketplace that connects users with local professional photographers.
- BiFarm, a Sunrise-based agriculture technology venture that provides smart cultivation and micro-climate control for urban farming operations.
- eCare21, a Tampa-based health technology platform that combines remote patient monitoring, telehealth services and more to monitor population groups at risk for hospitalizations or infectious diseases.
- FacilitaPay, a Brazil-based cross border payment platform for businesses that need to process payments in Latin America.
- GenoBank.io, a San Francisco-based healthtech firm that uses blockchain technology to help donors establish ownership and control over their biosamples and genomic data.
- Lynk, a Miami-based fintech that connects investors with investment strategies via a digital marketplace.
- Overproof, a Miami-based business intelligence startup for the beverage, alcohol and hospitality industries.
- Storybook, a Miami-based app that combines guided messages, narrated bed time stories, and music to help parents get their children to fall asleep.
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