Issue 62 – January 2018
 

Digital Health Company Peerfit Closes $8 Million
Series B Investment Round


Peerfit, a digital platform that makes it easy for insurance carriers, brokers, and employers to offer fitness classes and wellness services to their clients and employees, announced that it closed its Series B funding round. With the closing of this round, Peerfit raised $10.3 million from private investors in the last year’s offering. More details may be viewed here.


 

Shoe Carnival Steps Up Omni-Channel, Taps flexReceipts
for Smart Email Receipts


Leading family footwear provider Shoe Carnival, with over 400 stores across thirty-three states, announces a key partnership with the leading innovator in dynamic email receipts, flexReceipts, Inc. This partnership is a key part of Shoe Carnival’s strategy to activate more Shoe Perks loyalty members and enroll customers in SMS notifications.
 
flexReceipts Inc. is the preeminent provider of dynamic digital receipts for enterprise retailers. flexReceipts creates a new, post-purchase engagement channel, which ultimately provides a proven revenue stream for retailers and a high converting opportunity to market loyalty and other programs at a moment of peak interest. More details may be viewed here.

 


 
Social Evidence and Internet for Lawyers Release White Paper Focusing on Tips and Tricks to Find the Right Person on #SocialMedia

 

Andy Adkins, CIO of Social Evidence®, collaborated with Carole Levitt, Esq., and Mark Rosch, founders of Internet for Lawyers, Inc., to publish an #eDiscovery white paper for those researching social media for evidence in legal matters.
 
Social Evidence is a cloud-based application that quickly and accurately collects, organizes, and analyzes data from specific social media sites for targeted accounts and provides tools to enable legal professionals to easily search, find, and use relevant case-related information in a repeatable, admissible, and legally-defensible format. More details may be viewed here.

 


  

 

Northwest Florida Forward Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council Hosts a Discussion on “Access to Capital in Northwest Florida”

 

Florida Institute Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Dr. Lawrence Tinker (second from right), moderated a panel discussion on “Access to Capital in Northwest Florida” at the monthly meeting of the NWFL Forward Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.  Joining him on the panel were Steve Millaway of Tech Farms Capital (left), Bo Megginson, Executive Director of Gulf Coast AIM Group (second from left), and Ryan Tilley, COO of VetCV and Vice Chair of Innovations Awards Committee (right).  Northwest Florida Forward is a strategic initiative to drive economic vitality and growth for the northwest Florida region.  More details may be viewed here.

 


 
 

Mayo Clinic Convergence 2018
February 21 – 23, 2018 || Orlando, Florida

 

Mayo Clinic Convergence calls for groups within the biomedical, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and other fields to come together to solve unmet scientific needs. This conference brings together various scientists with the aim of discovery of education gaps inherent to one’s own discipline and the potential for creative collaboration in shared problem solving. More information may be viewed here.

 


 

 

Business of Biotech Conference 2018
March 2, 2018 || Tampa, Florida

 

The Business of Biotech Conference brings together biomedical companies, startups, entrepreneurs, investors for networking, partnership discussions and service providers. The Moffitt Cancer Center’s Office of Innovation and Industry Alliances holds this annual event that aims to achieve excellence in turning discoveries into medical breakthroughs and fueling a local, vibrant biotech cluster. The Moffitt Cancer Center has made a lasting commitment to the prevention and cure of cancer, working tirelessly in the areas of patient care, research and education to advance one step further in fighting this disease. More information may be viewed here.

 


 

 

South Florida Life Sciences Showcase
March 29, 2018 || Miami, Florida

 

BioFlorida will be hosting the South Florida Life Sciences Showcase at the Miami International Airport on Thursday, March 29th from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. This showcase connects life science executives from industry, research and academia. More details may be viewed here.

 


 

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Formed by the Florida Legislature in 2007, the Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research 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. The Institute provides company building services, and seed funding through the Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund, to promising Florida startups. Seventy-two companies have been funded to date, and the Institute’s economic impact through June 30, 2017 was $970 million, with an annual return on investment of 26 times to the State of Florida.