We Fast Track Innovation To Improve Quality of Life And Accelerate Venture Growth.

We accelerate the discovery and commercialization of technologies that solve critical local challenges by investing in growth stage technology companies and facilitating collaboration between the private and public sectors. Our aim is to drive equitable and sustainable growth through the adoption of innovative solutions that improve the quality of life for Miami-Dade residents.

Propelling Waste Diversion Across Miami-Dade County

Public Innovation Challenge

Miami-Dade Innovation Authority (“MDIA”) seeks early-to-growth stage startup companies with innovative solutions that will enhance Waste Diversion efforts in Miami-Dade County. Collaborators for this challenge include Miami-Dade County’s Office of Innovation and Economic Development (OIED), Department of Solid Waste Management (DSWM), and the Solid Waste Association-North America.

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Miami-Dade Innovation Authority Launches Fourth Public Innovation Challenge to Enhance Transportation Visibility and Management

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MDIA - Public Innovation Challenge Program wins bronze in Innovative Economic Development Category

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  • "We’re saying to entrepreneurs everywhere that we’re open for business, and we’re inviting the private sector to join us as we unlock more streamlined, more cost-effective solutions to big public sector problems. "

    Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County

  • "Miami Dade is the new frontier of tech innovation and entrepreneurship. The Miami Dade Innovation Authority will help us embrace our future and our destiny. This is all about seizing and accelerating opportunity."

    Alberto Ibargüen, President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

  • “This approach will fast-forward local solutions – while giving entrepreneurs a path to test and scale, making it faster and easier to innovate in Miami-Dade."

    Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert, III, Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners

  • "With pilot programs and an openness to creative solutions, we are flipping the way government does business by inviting businesses to pilot their innovations with us."

    Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County

  • "This work will advance innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth in South Florida."

    Ken Griffin, Citadel founder and CEO