European Startups in Miami: Pitch Night

​Ten European startups are spending a week in Miami to build a US network.

​On Tuesday night, Nov 10, we’re hosting a pitch night with the ten startups and our co-host EVO at The LAB Miami. After a keynote, the teams introduce themselves: what they have built, who they sell to, and what they need to get moving in the US. The visiting startups are here for a week and are looking for US investors, customers, founders and potential partners to network with. If that’s you, join us.

​Part of the first edition of Pitches and Palms (Nov 9–17), the Miami accelerator week for European founders. Full details on pitchesandpalms.com

​Agenda

• ​6:00 PM Doors open

• ​6:30 PM Welcome & Intro

• ​7:00 PM Pitch block 1 (5 startups)

• ​7:20 PM Break

• ​7:35 PM Pitch block 2 (5 startups)

• ​8:10 PM Break

• ​8:25 PM Winners announced

• ​8:30 PM Networking

​Judges:

• ​Hilmon Sorey (The Source Groups, ClozeLoop, Blue Moon VC): Hilmon is a Silicon Valley technology veteran, advisor, and investor who relocated to Miami in 2022.
  
  He has had 3 successful exits as an executive, and founded the award-winning GTM & sales management consulting firm, ClozeLoop which works with Uber, Salesforce, DigitalOcean, Freshworks, Bill.com, Qualtrics, Deepgram.
  Hilmon is also a founding partner in Blue Moon VC the first AI-powered VC firm begun in 2019 with over 50 startup investments to date (2 unicorns).
  
  He has invested in over 160 startups as an angel. He is the author of eight top-selling books on GTM strategy and he co-founded The Source in February of 2024, South Florida's Innovation Hub for tech employment, entrepreneur­ship and investment driving more diverse participation in the tech industry.

• ​Ryan Pruitt (Ocean Azul Partners): Ryan is a Managing Director at Ocean Azul Partners, a Miami-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software and deep tech.
  
  He partners with founders from inception through scale, supporting capital formation, financial strategy, and go-to-market execution. Prior to venture capital, he spent approximately 10 years at Deloitte, where he rose to Audit Director and led complex engagements across public companies, private equity-backed businesses, and global enterprises. He is actively involved in the Miami startup ecosystem through investing, mentorship, and community engagement.

• ​Kevin Cadette (Black Angels Global): Kevin Cadette is the Founding Executive Director of Black Angels Global, a community of accredited investors that gives Black angels access to the strongest early-stage opportunities. He brings together investors, founders, and operators who contribute capital, judgment, and relationships.
  
  Kevin has built an angel group before. From 2020 to 2023, he founded and led a network of accredited investors, running the full process from deal screening through closing, structuring SPVs for member investments, and partnering with venture funds, accelerators, and state programs to source deals.
  
  Before turning to investing, Kevin was a startup founder and a technology executive at Fortune 50 companies. He knows firsthand what it takes to build a company with limited resources and what it takes to execute at global scale. That experience shapes how he evaluates founders and markets

• ​Burhan Sebin (Chief AI Officer at eMerge Americas | Founder of Miami AI Hub): Burhan helps leaders turn AI from experimentation into useful, reliable daily work.
  
  As Chief AI Officer at eMerge Americas and founder of Miami AI Hub, he works across enterprise AI strategy, responsible adoption, practical education, and ecosystem building.
  
  His operating belief is simple: access to AI is becoming abundant. Judgment, trusted context, and disciplined execution are the real advantages.
  
  His long-term mission is to help make Miami one of the world’s most important centers for AI and technology.

​Startups:

• ​BOORGEN (Construction Tech), Leipzig, Germany: BOORGEN is building the AI-native operating system for the built world. Its PlanBuild Intelligence turns human intent into executable construction projects and connects design, engineering, financing, manufacturing and construction in one ecosystem. The goal: become the global intelligence and transaction infrastructure for construction.

• ​PEAK (Sports Tech), Hilden, Germany: PEAK builds a sensor inside a sleeve boxers wear under their gloves and turns every punch into live data on speed, force and heart rate. For athletes and coaches today, pro fights next.

• ​DyeMera Biosciences (Biotech), Cologne, Germany: DyeMera develops biomarkers for cancer and metabolic diseases and supports drug development from basic research to drug screening, patient stratification and companion diagnostics. The first probe is already on the market, five more are in late stage development.

• ​Cosa Group (Advanced Materials), Munich, Germany: AI is evolving fast – but its performance is ultimately defined by the hardware it runs on. At COSA, we focus on exactly that. Our innovations are designed to influence the entire semiconductor supply chain — from materials to manufacturing to how microchips are built and perform.

• ​Weydem (Fan Platform), Berlin, Germany: The leaderboard for fandom knowledge. Fans join a hub for what they love, play ranked duels, arenas and tournaments, and see where they stand against their friends, their city, their country and the world. Six hubs are live, from celebrities and reality TV to romance novels, with more than 27,000 reviewed questions. Next up is the US launch.

• ​Sublush (Consumer), Tallinn, Estonia: Manifestation used to belong to spiritual circles. Now psychology and cognitive science are taking a closer look. Sublush turns personal aspirations into personalized, immersive daily practices. It moves past generic content and helps people visualize and work toward the life they want.

• ​Rheono (Cybersecurity), Berlin, Germany: Rheono’s autonomous AI agents pentest web apps and APIs and come back with working exploits, always inside an authorized scope and with every action logged.

• ​PredictMe (HealthTech), Linköping, Sweden: What if chronic disease could be spotted up to 15 years before it develops? PredictMe trains AI models on epigenetic data, the way your body switches genes on and off to adapt to its environment, to unlock truly proactive healthcare. Their models are trained on people who went on to develop chronic disease up to 15 years later.

• ​JennyHires (AI Recruiter), Antwerp, Belgium: Jenny is an AI recruiter for recruitment agencies. Give Jenny an objective. She is designed to work across permitted systems and return a result you can review. Small agencies can take on more roles without adding headcount.

• ​EASE (Logistics Robotics), Munich, Germany: Every package that reaches your door has been lifted by human hands. Often many times along the way. The LU 20 exoskeleton weighs just 11 lbs, supports arms and back on lifts up to 44 lbs and goes on or off in 50 seconds. More than 200 workers already use it on the job. Then comes Physical AI. The next EASE exoskeleton collects data from real shifts in warehouses and factories, the kind of data robots still lack. Customers pay for the relief. The training data comes with it. EASE grew out of seven years of ergonomics research at TUM (Technical University Munich)

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• ​Program hosts: Julian Andreas Rosen & Sakis Athansios Tabakis (SteerSuite), Stephanie Weyer & Isabel Maria Jeworski (Marketing Mavens)

• ​Event co-host: EVO VC & Startup Community

• ​Home base: The LAB Miami