Venture Week Miami 2026: South Florida's $2B Startup Scene Matures
Venture Week Miami highlighted a maturing ecosystem: $2.02B across 161 deals in early 2026, with fintech, AI, and LatAm cross-border leading the themes.
Fintech remains a core venture capital category, with capital flowing into payments rails, neobanks, insurtech, B2B financial infrastructure, and AI-native financial operations. Our fintech VC coverage tracks the rounds and funds defining the next wave of financial technology.
Explore fintech venture capital articles and funding news below.
Venture Week Miami highlighted a maturing ecosystem: $2.02B across 161 deals in early 2026, with fintech, AI, and LatAm cross-border leading the themes.
Midas' Series A funds the next wave of tokenized treasuries and on-chain investment rails aimed at institutional allocators.
Floodgate led a seed round for fintech EFEX and joined Counsel Health’s $25M Series A, staying active across AI and fintech seeds.
Ribbit Capital began raising a new $300M opportunistic fund, "Leapfrog Capital," to invest across a wider range of deals beyond its fintech core.
Zeal Capital Partners closed an $82M Fund II, tripling AUM to $186M in five years to back inclusive fintech, healthcare, and future-of-work startups.