Orlando and Miami, FL – May 27, 2025 – Florida Venture Forum, Florida’s largest statewide support organization for investors and entrepreneurs, today announced the companies selected to present at the 2025 Florida Early Stage Venture Conference, taking place June 2, 2025 – June 3, 2025, at the Fairwinds Alumni Center in Orlando, FL.
Ben Patz, Managing Partner at DeepWork Capital and Florida Venture Forum Selection Chair, said, “The selection committee was excited by the breadth of technology showcased by the applicants and is confident that, independent of their thesis, all seed and early stage investors will find interesting presenting companies.”
“We are extremely excited to showcase such a diverse group of presenters, who will undoubtedly attract record levels of investor interest and capital at this year’s conference,” said Kevin Burgoyne, President and CEO of Florida Venture Forum. “A huge thanks to our selection committee, our members and partners who referred such outstanding applicants, and to our host-partners at Space Florida for their leadership and support of Florida’s innovation ecosystem.”
For more information and to register, visit: https://flventure.org/florida-early-stage-venture-conference/
Participating companies by region:
Central & East/West Central Florida
AMROK, Inc. (https://www.amrok.space/) Orlando, the company is a space tech startup providing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites the ability to perform rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD) autonomously. AMROK’s ARVIN™ optical sensor suite product reduces costs and operational risks, extend satellite lifespans, and unlocks new LEO satellite on-orbit capabilities including refueling, automated satellite maintenance, constellation management, and orbital logistics.
Circuitry.ai (https://circuitry.ai/) Tampa, the company enables manufacturers of complex products to optimize sales, service, and customer outcomes with AI-powered decisions. Circuitry.ai’s decision intelligence platform and Enterprise AI as a Service applications help marketing, sales, and service teams to analyze, augment, and automate impactful and repeat decisions.
Crypto Tutors (https://www.cryptotutors.com/) Orlando, the company future-proofs the workforce through responsible education and tools to keep America competitive. Their platform, DeFi All Odds, uses AI to help individuals uncover future-forward career paths in emerging tech and then teaches them how to build a verifiable portfolio of skills, fast.
Cvergenx, Inc. (https://www.cvergenx.com/) St. Petersburg, the company is a clinical-stage precision oncology company redefining radiation therapy (RT) through genomics. Their proprietary precisionRT Dose (pRTD™) platform personalizes RT dosing based on tumorspecific biology, addressing a massive unmet need in cancer treatment. Backed by strong clinical validation and IP, Cvergenx is positioned to lead a transformation in how RT is prescribed and optimized.
NeuroEM Therapeutics (https://www.neuroem.com/) Tampa, the company is commercializing the first wearable device to deliver a safe, effective, non-invasive treatment for cognitive decline caused by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s (AD) and aging. Backed by multiple patents, their technology showed cognitive improvement in 7 out of 8 AD sufferers in peer reviewed human clinical studies.
Oboro Labs, Inc. (https://oborolabs.com/) Gainesville, the company produces Cyclic Polyolefins on scale. Cyclic polymers, unlike traditional linear polymers, have no chain ends and therefore present many advantages. They are conductive, have lower surface friction, higher melt temperatures, prevent leaching, and more. Applications include printable wire, longer-lasting batteries, safer water bottles, and improved coatings for ships, to name a few.
Operator Solutions, Inc. (https://os-rescue.com/) Melbourne, the company is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides advanced rescue, recovery, and mission-critical support services to government and commercial clients. Established in 2020, the company leverages decades of military and aerospace expertise, drawing on a network of elite military operators, former astronauts, physicians, and highly skilled professionals to execute complex operations in high-risk environments.
Pete (https://www.pete.com/) Orlando, the company is a revolutionary AI-powered learning platform that transforms workforce training. Their solution enables companies to streamline knowledge: create customized virtual academies to develop, host, and manage customized courses without needing a dedicated training department.
Seagate Space Corporation (https://seagatespace.com/) Tampa, the company is developing cost-effective, rapidly deployable, autonomous offshore solutions tailored to space’s operational needs. Their Gateway-S semi-submersible platform design reduces costs and improves performance versus existing ships or vessels through several patent-pending design elements, providing a viable alternative to existing coastal sites.
SmartTracker (https://www.smarttracker.ai/) Clermont, the company offers an innovative all-in-one platform specifically designed to address the critical challenges facing Health & Human service agencies across the United States. Their solution integrates public health, behavioral health, and environmental health capabilities into a unified system that dramatically improves operational efficiency, data sharing, and health outcomes.
Soarce, Inc. (https://www.soarceusa.com/) Orlando, the company is a materials innovation company transforming regenerative biomass—such as seaweed and hemp—into high-performance nanomaterials for advanced applications. Their flagship product, a surfacemodified nanocellulose, enhances fiber-matrix adhesion in composites (e.g., carbon fiber), unlocking significant mechanical improvements without altering existing manufacturing processes. They serve industries including aerospace, automotive, and infrastructure, where their drop-in solution helps reduce composite weight, increase strength, and cut costs.
SynMatter Co. (https://synmatter.co/) Orlando, the company is a woman owned startup commercializing smart corrosion inhibitors, Smart Particles, that address the numerous economic, environmental and health concerns associated with corrosion, a global trillion-dollar problem affecting everything made of metal. Current corrosion inhibitors deliver insufficient protection and are harmful to people and the environment.
North Florida
Swarm Dynamics AI, Inc. Fort Walton Beach, the company is building a full-stack, AI-powered advanced-manufacturing platform that converts domestic raw materials into low-cost, fully autonomous drone swarms at unprecedented speed. Each 25–50 k sq ft “SwarmCenter” bolts onto existing yards or depots and can print 30-plus air-, sea-, or mixed domain vehicles per day, giving defense and industrial customers on-site mass and rapid spiral upgrades without foreign-supply-chain risk.
Southeast Florida
Calculum (https://www.calculum.ai/) Miami, the company enables corporates to gain a competitive advantage by using advanced analytics and AI to improve payment terms (working capital) and gather more insights into trading partners all on one platform.
Titl (https://titl.co/) Miami, the company is innovating real estate transactions by using A.I. and Blockchain technology. They are cutting out the paperwork, legal hurdles, and costly delays that make buying, owning or selling a home difficult. They make home title verification, monitoring, and transfer effortless.
Zulu Pods (https://www.zulupods.com/) Coral Springs, the company is a defense and aerospace company pioneering next-generation components and subsystems. Founded in 2020 by former Pratt & Whitney engineers, they created the world’s first self-contained lubrication unit—the ZPod—which integrates the reservoir, pump, and nozzle into a single lightweight package. Their products to date reduce complexity, weight, and maintenance demands, making them ideal for attritable jet engines, UAVs, rotorcraft, and fleet sustainment.
Southwest Florida
Cession Oncology Naples, the company is advancing a breakthrough clinical platform. Their proprietary nanoparticle technology has demonstrated a remarkable ability to inhibit primary tumor growth and fully halt metastasis in pancreatic cancer models, Preclinical studies show no evidence of off-target toxicity, reinforcing the platform’s therapeutic promise. Beyond its potential as a therapeutic agent, the nanoparticle remodels the tumor microenvironment by eliminating fibrotic barriers, potentially enhancing the efficacy of complementary therapies.
VeriChem, Inc. (https://verichemtech.com/) Lakewood Ranch, the company enables faster, safer drug detection with MagLev, a patented separation tech solving fentanyl and synthetic opioid detection challenges.
Beyond Florida
Medical Ingenuities, LLC. (https://www.medicalingenuities.com/) Illinois, the company’s vascular closure system reduces complications, workload and cost by providing Patent Hemostasis. With over 10M Interventional Procedures performed around the world through an access site in the Radial Artery in a patient’s wrist, the closure of this procedure has a 20% (Approx. 2M yrly) complication rate of radial artery occlusions, hematomas and re-bleeding events.
Rapta, Inc. (https://rapta.ai/) Oregon, the company with its AI Platform, automates the deployment of AI for manufacturing, inspection, training and quality control. Rapta supercharges factories by unlocking 30% to 50% new manufacturing capacity with the same workforce and facility by reducing errors, scrap, and labor. The Rapta platform learns an assembly technique from a few correct and incorrect examples and then automatically generates the AI training set including augmentations to accommodate varying lighting, color, and physical geometry.
Sus Clinicals, Inc. (https://susclinicals.com/) Ohio, the company enables cancer researchers to move their most promising therapeutics to human clinicals by inducing tumors on demand in their proprietary, FDA cleared Oncopig®, generating predictive data on safety/efficacy/metabolic effects.
TRAQ (https://www.traq.ai/) Georgia, the company is a cutting-edge AI-powered conversation intelligence platform that revolutionizes sales, coaching, and client retention. By analyzing sales interactions, TRAQ provides actionable insights to improve communication, strengthen client relationships, and drive measurable business outcomes. It bridges the gap between technology and the human elements of sales, empowering teams to perform at their best.
Collegiate Presenter Competitors:
CourseLynx, representing the University of Florida
FireCodes AI, representing Florida Atlantic University
Flex Fit Soc, representing Stetson University
GISDATA.io, representing the University of Central Florida
BounceBack Pickle, representing Florida Gulf Coast University
SYP, representing the University of South Florida
About the Florida Venture Forum: The Florida Venture Forum is Florida’s largest statewide support organization for investors and entrepreneurs, helping companies with headquarters, operations or supply chain in Florida connect with sources of capital from across the country. Since 1984, more than 2,000 companies have presented at Forum events, collectively raising over $30B in equity capital and contributing well over that amount in total economic value to Florida. The Forum’s membership includes a “who’s who” of venture capital and private equity professionals—ranging from early-stage to growth-stage investors—as well as leading law, accounting, and investment banking firms, and major corporations active in innovation. In addition to hosting flagship events like the Florida Venture Capital Conference, the Statewide Collegiate Start-up Competition, and the Early Stage Venture Conference, the Forum provides year-round programming and industry-focused events across Florida. For more information, visit: http://www.flventure.org
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