Miami AI Startups in the Ambition Accelerated Cohort

Miami startups using AI joined the Ambition Accelerated cohort. They cover insurance claims, freight, wage access, procurement and training.

Miami startups using AI joined Ambition Accelerated, the Florida Council of 100 program, with tools for insurance claims, freight, wage access, procurement and training. #AmbitionAccelerated #MiamiTech #Fintech #DefenseTech

Five Miami startups that use AI are in this year’s Ambition Accelerated cohort. The statewide program is run by The Florida Council of 100.

The Council’s kickoff release says 46 early-stage companies joined this year’s cohort.

The Gold Coast track has two eight-week programs.

FinTech is based in West Palm Beach. Dual-Use & Defense Tech is based in Miami.

What Is Ambition Accelerated?

It is a statewide company-building platform powered by The Florida Council of 100 and its Foundation. Related Ross and eMerge Americas are founding platform partners. Embarc Collective provides executive coaching.

According to Ambition Accelerated’s Gold Coast Tech page, founders get access to more than 75 Florida CEOs and executives. They also get pilot opportunities with enterprises, investor introductions and free meeting space.

Participants also get access to eMerge Americas’ invitation-only Miami AI Summit, the Council’s application release says.

One founder and one co-founder from each company also receive a one-year Embarc Collective membership for 2027. A member of the founding team can take the co-founder spot.

Gold Coast Tech launched in 2025. This year it runs under the Ambition Accelerated name.

The program has four tracks. HealthTech is anchored at Embarc Collective in Tampa, and its cohort was introduced on LinkedIn.

TJ Villamil, president of business development at eMerge Americas, welcomed it. “So proud to see Florida’s private sector lean into accelerating Life Sciences innovation in our state,” he wrote.

The page lists 12 FinTech companies and 10 Dual-Use & Defense companies. Every description below comes from the program or the company itself.

Which Miami AI Startups Are in the Cohort?

Wamy Ai is an AI claim analyst for property and casualty insurance. Founder Edgar Harutyunyan says it re-runs its analysis whenever a new document, payment or deadline arrives.

Wamy says a statutory engine built from insurance laws in all 50 states maps each claim to the rules that apply. Customers save 15 to 20 hours per claim, it says.

Movik calls itself the operating system for trucking. Founder Tomas Shuk says an AI copilot tracks documents such as bills of lading and watches cash flow.

Its site lists pre-pickup financing, invoicing and collections, broker credit checks and fleet management. Insurance and healthcare products are listed as coming.

PayFlex offers earned wage access to frontline workers with no interest or fees. Employers pay a subscription, and the company starts with the Hispanic workforce.

Founder Fausto Friedrich says PayFlex began in Uruguay and serves more than 15,000 workers across more than 35 companies. It says it is the first earned wage access platform to put an AI agent in messaging.

Supply Veins builds an AI-native system that turns supplier emails into procurement actions for dual-use manufacturers. Founder Charles Masters Rodriguez says users save four hours a day and cut order defects by 30%. The company calls itself an intelligence layer for firms scaling physical products from prototype to production.

ARSOFT US calls itself an AI, mixed reality and extended reality company established in South Florida. Aidan DeLellis leads it. It says it is headquartered in West Palm Beach and works within Miami’s innovation ecosystem.

Its tools include AI and computer vision for guided field work. A separate product turns medical scans into 3D surgical-planning models, the company says. Its site says it presented AI-enabled XR at FIU’s 11th Annual Hemispheric Security Conference in Miami.

Why Does the Defense Track Matter?

The Council’s kickoff release says the defense track is hosted in Miami, where military and defense support more than 73,000 jobs.

Supply Veins and ARSOFT US both sit in that track. Supply Veins says its product prepares customers for Executive Order 14415, which covers defense supply chains.

That fits a pattern MAIN has followed. We looked at Miami’s rise as a defense tech hub earlier this year.

The track also includes Earendel of Aventura, which describes an energy autonomy platform for defense customers.

How Does the Cohort Fit Miami’s Startup Scene?

The local venture market is active. MAIN reported that Miami startups raised $400M in Q3 2026.

Fintech is where the cohort leans local. Nine of the 12 FinTech companies on the program page list South Florida addresses.

Francis Suarez, the former Miami mayor, is a senior advisor to the Gold Coast Campaign.

The application release quotes him saying Florida is “not just a place to launch, but a place to scale, compete, and stay.”

MAIN has also profiled five Miami fintech AI firms rewiring how money moves. Wamy, Movik and PayFlex now join that group of local names.

MAIN has not independently verified any of these figures. The savings, worker counts and customer claims all come from the companies.

For these five Miami founders, the eight weeks are about winning Florida customers and investors.

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