South Florida tech & capital · layer 4 of N · August 2026
Jupiter to Homestead. Atlantic Ocean to Gulf of America. Layer 1: 18 AI companies. Layer 2: 9 AI-adjacent businesses. Layer 3: 10 financial advisory, crypto & fintech players. Layer 4: 4 established tech anchors added.
Layers 1–3 gained entries this pass: five AI companies and a crypto infrastructure startup turned up on rescan. New layer: established, pre-AI-era tech anchors headquartered in South Florida for years or decades — the region's tech base before the current wave. Established Tech name tags sit directly on the map, in the empty Everglades interior, rather than in a sidebar.
Layer 0: coastline derived from U.S. Census Bureau cartographic county boundaries (via the us-atlas dataset). Lake Okeechobee is a hand-approximated ellipse at its correct position and scale. Roads (I-95, I-75, Florida's Turnpike) are hand-traced through known waypoints. Layer 1: 18 AI companies at roughly $25M+ in disclosed funding, revenue, or market cap. Sensormatic Solutions is Johnson Controls' AI retail division, not an independent company. Added on rescan: Hugging Face (Miami Beach office), Kaseya (Brickell, agentic IT/cybersecurity, $1.75B valuation), DermaSensor (FDA-cleared AI skin-cancer device), Sardine (AI fraud detection, North Miami Beach), Subquadratic (long-context LLM startup, $29M seed), and Core AI Holdings (Nasdaq: CHAI, HomeGPT). Layer 2: 9 AI-adjacent capital, compute, energy, and advisory players — the money and infrastructure behind the AI companies. FPL InETech Center sits on FAU's Boca Raton campus (not Juno Beach, despite FPL's HQ location there); D-Wave Quantum (layer 1) and Boca Raton Innovation Campus are the same physical site, listed separately as tenant and campus. Blumberg Capital and SoftBank Latin America Fund are headquartered elsewhere with a substantial Miami presence. Layer 3: 10 financial advisory, crypto, and fintech companies, name tags on the left sidebar (opposite layers 1, 2 & 4). Elliott Management, Affiliated Managers Group, and Wells Fargo's Wealth & Investment Management division are headquartered in West Palm Beach; Citadel's headquarters is in Brickell, Miami. Blockchain.com relocated its U.S. headquarters to Miami; Cyclops (stablecoin/crypto payments infrastructure, Mastercard client, $20M Series A) is Miami-based with a second office in Vienna; Pantera Capital and MoonPay operate from South Florida but are headquartered elsewhere. Layer 4: 4 established tech companies with South Florida roots that predate the current AI wave — Citrix (Fort Lauderdale), UKG/Ultimate Software (Weston, dual HQ with Lowell, MA), Chewy (Plantation, dual HQ with Boston), and ADT (Boca Raton). Their name tags sit on the map itself, in the empty Everglades interior, with leader lines running out to their real coastal locations, rather than in a sidebar. All positions are by neighborhood, not street address, and spread slightly where companies cluster for legibility. Compiled from public filings, company announcements, and press coverage as of August 2026.