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Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research

3651 FAU Blvd Suite 400, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, United States

Overview

Formed by the Florida Legislature, the Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Florida Technology is a non-profit organization that works collaboratively with the technology licensing and commercialization offices of Florida's state universities and private research institutions to leverage a $2.5B+ research base and form investable companies that create clean jobs in new industries that are driving the global economy. With funding from the State of Florida through the Department of Economic Opportunity, and through the generosity of mentors, advisors and donors, the Florida Institute provides company building services, and seed funding through the Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund, to promising Florida startups.

Total investments
12
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Gemini Sports Analytics

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

    Gemini Sports Analytics provides data insights and AI-driven decision support for team operations, with a focus on roster management, player development and on-field decision-making. Its product is used by professional and collegiate partners, including the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts and Texas A&M. The firm emphasizes systemizing and democratising AI for sports, bringing enterprise-grade analytics into team workflows. Recent financing will be used to hire technical leadership and customer support and to expand its partnership group across the data and AI ecosystem. Gemini has positioned itself as a bridge between academic/scientific rigor and sports industry connectivity through strategic investor relationships. The company was named to SportsPro’s sports tech Ideas to Invest in Now class of 2024. Gemini Sports Analytics offers a no-code, sports-specific intelligence platform that enables stakeholders at elite sports organizations to deploy predictive analytics and MLOps without writing code. The web application integrates Snowflake DB and DataRobot and provides Automated Machine Learning, time series, and clustering analyses covering more than 80% of typical professional-sports queries. GSA addresses teams’ difficulty using the >2 million data points captured per athlete per year by simplifying the data lifecycle and surfacing actionable insights faster. The company was founded in Miami in 2021 and the founding team has deep industry experience across Olympic, NCAA and professional teams. GSA currently has LOIs with teams in the NFL, NBA and European soccer and employs about ten staff, with plans to double headcount over the next year. The recent financing is intended to support product development and hiring as the company expands its go-to-market efforts.

  • GotU

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2022

    TempMee operates a staffing platform that matches licensed dental hygienists with dental offices needing on-demand or permanent placement. Launched at the end of 2019, the company has connected roughly 3,000 dental offices with 6,000 hygienists across Florida and the Southeast. TempMee reports having paid out $2 million to hygienists to date and currently operates with a team of 12 in downtown Miami. The startup plans to open its platform to additional types of dental professionals this year and to add associate dentists and dental assistants within the next year. TempMee is preparing a national expansion over the next 18 months and is hiring developers, marketing staff, and expanding its sales team to scale operations. The founders position the product to serve niche licensed-worker markets beyond dental as a longer-term opportunity.

  • ApexEdge

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

    ApexEdge provides a white-label subscription management platform built for banks, fintechs, and credit unions to help customers cancel subscriptions and negotiate bills. The company works with institutions including Intuit, MetLife, NerdWallet and others to deliver subscription management and financial advocacy solutions. ApexEdge powers Billshark, which Intuit’s Mint announced a partnership with to offer users bill and subscription negotiation tools. Led by CEO Steven McKean, the company says its services increase customer engagement, satisfaction, and revenue for partner institutions. ApexEdge intends to use newly raised funds to enhance talent acquisition and automate its services. The company is based in Miami, FL.

  • NOCAP Sports

    Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

    NOCAP Sports operates a platform that connects college athletes and universities to corporate sponsors and streamlines sponsorships while ensuring compliance at every stage. The product gives brands and agencies access to thousands of athletes along with advanced analytics and communications tools, and the company has prioritized onboarding universities to scale athlete access. NOCAP reports 64 universities signed up, including the University of San Diego, the University of New Mexico, and Boise State. The company was founded in May 2020 and pivoted to its current NIL-focused model over the summer after the NCAA changed its rules to allow college athletes to monetize their name, image, and likeness. The startup says it will use the $2.5M seed to expand marketing, grow its development team to release new features, and make strategic hires including a VP of Sales, bringing headcount to about 10 full‑time employees. The co‑founders are based in Pennsylvania, Texas, and California, and the team plans to make Miami their homebase in early 2022.

  • Admiral

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2016

    Admiral’s VRM platform helps publishers build visitor relationships, drive revenue, and improve retention through AI-powered marketing automation and 1st-party data innovations. The company serves thousands of premium publishers and networks worldwide, including CNBC, Hearst, New York Post, Paramount, Rotten Tomatoes, and USA Today Sports. Admiral positions itself as marketing automation for media publishers, drawing inspiration from B2B SaaS platforms like HubSpot, Drift, and Salesforce but applied at a B2C level. Recent product focus areas highlighted include copyright access control and expanded AI-driven publisher marketing capabilities. The company announced a partnership with The Trade Desk’s OpenPass and intends to expand internationally while growing its Revenue, Product, and Customer Love teams. Admiral also strengthened its leadership with board additions from Harbert Growth Partners and Birchmere Ventures. Admiral offers an analytics and revenue-recovery platform that helps web and mobile publishers measure adblocking impact, engage users to improve ad quality, and automatically recover lost revenue. Its Measure module is free for select publishers and sizes losses down to the impression and dollar, while Engage, Recover, and Transact are performance-priced so publishers pay only when revenue is recovered. Admiral also offers a WordPress plugin to measure adblock impacts and runs a Partner Program to recover and share revenue with adtech partners. The company plans to use new funding to expand its New York-based sales and marketing to premium publishers worldwide and to grow adoption of its plugin and partner program. Admiral markets a guaranteed, performance-priced approach to recovering revenue and invites publishers to qualify for up to $1,000,000 of free revenue recovery.

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