When one thinks of technology innovation, and the companies and people that produce it, most think of Silicon Valley. Or, for those on the East Coast, New York’s “Silicon Alley.” The mind also may travel to Austin, Texas, or Salt Lake City. Four-time Forbes’ Midas List investor Shervin Pishevar however, believes that Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a place. And in that vein, “Bienvenidos a Miami!”
“I believe in entrepreneurship as a movement, and Miami has been an experiment for the idea that we can create tech hubs anywhere in the world and [be] happy to jump into some of those stories,” Pishevar said in a recent interview. “And we have a very lucky [situation] with [Miami] Mayor [Francis] Suarez, and having a great mayor and leader and leadership in the city that believes in this vision of Miami being a tech hub. It’s incredible to see.
“And for me, selfishly, I have a lot of my friends that I miss who are now living and moving to Miami. And so it’s nice to be able to see my friends more, and the creators and the builders of really the next great companies—many of them have actually moved to Miami in the past few years.”
Miami has seen funding for tech startups explode, especially in 2021. Through most of 2020, the area saw between $198 million and $460 million in investment prior to spiking in Q4 of 2020 with $1.2 billion in investment. In 2021, along with most markets and M&A activity, it blew up: Both Q3 and Q4 showed investments over…
