South Florida’s strength as a business incubator goes far beyond favorable tax rates and good weather, according to Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane. “What makes South Florida such a great place to build and scale a business is its educational institutions," he told several hundred attendees at Tuesday’s Technology Leaders of the Year Awards sponsored by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
The challenge: retaining that top talent trained here, he said. “The only thing working against South Florida is its reputation — the perception that South Florida is not a place suited to build and scale companies. It isn’t true.”
Cane won the chamber’s Technology Entrepreneur of the Year honor. Cane is co-founder of the Boca Raton-based electronic medical records and data company for that employs 270 and has raised $49 million in financing since the company's founding in 2010.
Other awardees were University of Miami student Herwig Koningsof Accredify for Best University Technology Start-Up, Entic for Most Innovative Technology, Baptist Health CIO Mimi Tayloras Most Influential Female Leader in Technology and Ryder System for Best Use of Technology.
- Jane Wooldridge