5 South Florida Tech Startups to Watch in 2026
As Silicon Valley continues to dominate the innovation narrative, investors are steering increasing amounts of capital toward early-stage firms in Palm Beach and Broward counties, drawn by a mix of tax advantages, founder migration and expanding research partnerships with local universities.
The region’s startups are advancing technologies with potential implications well beyond the state’s economy, ranging from next-generation health science to climate resilience and AI-driven enterprise tools.
Here are five South Florida tech companies poised to draw outsized attention in 2026.
1. Doroni Aerospace
Coral Springs / Pompano Beach
While the long-promised era of flying cars has been slow to arrive, Doroni Aerospace is betting that personal aviation is closer than many assume. The Coral Springs firm, which also operates an R&D site in Pompano Beach, is developing a two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (eVTOL) aimed at individual consumers rather than commercial taxi fleets. The company drew international attention in early 2025 when Innovation Wings—part of Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Aero Industries—invested $30 million to accelerate development of Doroni’s H1-X model, with plans to bring it to market in 2026.
2. Vultr
West Palm Beach
One of the world’s largest independent cloud infrastructure providers is headquartered not in Seattle or San Francisco, but in West Palm Beach. Vultr, which operates 32 data centers across six continents, secured a $333 million growth round in December 2024 led by AMD’s venture arm and LuminArx Capital Management. The investment pushed the company’s valuation to $3.5 billion and is expected to support its push into high-performance “supercomputer cluster” deployments as enterprise demand for AI-ready compute surges.
3. Magic Leap
Plantation
Once an emblem of overhyped consumer tech, Magic Leap has been working to reposition itself as an enterprise-focused augmented-reality provider. Its second-generation headset targets professional use cases in healthcare, manufacturing, and defense—markets seen as more commercially viable than the consumer segment where early products struggled. A strategic partnership with Google, announced in May 2024, has helped sustain the company’s momentum, as has roughly $750 million in investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund between 2023 and 2024.
4. IntelePeer
Dania Beach
As companies race to integrate generative AI into customer service operations, IntelePeer has emerged as a fast-growing contender. The Dania Beach firm provides cloud-based automation tools that handle voice, SMS, and digital interactions; one of its AI agents now processes roughly 60 million customer contacts annually with a reported 70% self-service rate. In July 2024, IntelePeer raised $140 million in a round co-led by Savant Growth and VantagePoint Capital Partners, positioning the company to capitalize on what analysts expect to be 50% annual growth in AI-driven customer engagement. IntelePeer says its own revenue is expanding at twice that pace.
5. Syncromune
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale–based Syncromune is pursuing a novel approach to cancer treatment that aims to activate the patient’s immune system at the tumor site itself. The company’s procedure involves freezing the tumor to rupture cancer cells, then delivering a targeted immunotherapy designed to prompt an aggressive immune response—without chemotherapy or radiation. The strategy has drawn significant investor interest: Syncromune closed a $100 million Series A round led by an undisclosed institutional backer, with participation from Wasatch Equity Partners, to advance its lead candidate, SV-102, into Phase 2a clinical trials.
South Florida’s tech economy is benefiting from a rare alignment of capital flows, founder relocation and institutional support. The region has moved beyond the “up-and-coming” label and is now competing for national attention on its own terms. If the next decade belongs partly to America’s emerging tech hubs, South Florida is positioning itself near the front of the pack.
