Miami indie streetwear running real release cycles. 'Forever Miami' capsule 2025 shows they're scaling drop culture fast. Founder is the only buyer — one conversation, one decision. Approach as a Miami operator who's shipped multi-product release systems.

B2B sports betting analytics / data platform (not a consumer sportsbook). Tomash is the technical contact. Loose product fit — flagged as such. The angle: if Kero ingests odds, event data, or results feeds from multiple sources, inconsistent data quality is a real problem. Approach as a data infrastructure conversation, not a hard pitch. Needs a qualification call before any proposal.

Fort Lauderdale-based influencer/creator marketplace. $5M seed. Latam + US creator economy play — connecting creators, brands, and agencies. Andrew is FL-based and can walk in. The pain: deal flow is scaling faster than their internal ops tooling. Pitch: HOH builds the infrastructure that lets your ops team handle 10x volume without hiring 10x headcount.

$19.7M raised, Series A April 2025. 18 employees scaling to ~36. CEO Champ Bennett, Miami HQ. Innovation Endeavors + HubSpot Ventures. They build video ops tools for enterprise brands — which means their internal client onboarding and delivery workflow has the same ops debt every fast-growing SaaS has at 18 people. Andrew is local = coffee meeting. Champ reads his email.

$20M Series A May 2025, Left Lane Capital. CEO Yash Daftary, Miami. Payments + fulfillment + courses + CRM + community in one platform — they sell ops simplicity to creators. At ~30 people post-Series A, their internal ops hasn't kept up with the product roadmap. Miami local = walk-in. Pitch: you help creators run their business — let me help you run yours.

Ankur Goyal is CEO — YC alum, ex-Cloudera/Dropbox. Braintrust sells AI evaluation infrastructure to enterprise teams but their own eval ops are manual at scale. Series A, ~$36M raised, team of ~25. Fast-moving, technical-but-business-oriented founder. The pitch: your own internal eval pipeline should run on your own product's principles.

Raza Habib is CEO — Oxford-trained, research background, non-operator founder who built a product-first company. Humanloop is LLM operations infrastructure, Series A ~$17M. The pitch is tight: you build ops tooling for AI teams — does your own CS team have that tooling? Classic eat-your-own-dogfood sprint.

Isaiah Granet is CEO — young founder, fast mover, raised ~$22M. Bland AI is conversational AI infrastructure for businesses. They're growing fast and their internal ops per customer deployment is still manual. Non-enterprise procurement, founder-direct buyer. Close profile: fast yes/no.

Jordan Dearsley is CEO — operator background, raised ~$20M. Vapi is voice AI infrastructure. Developers need better observability tooling to debug and improve agents built on Vapi. The pitch: build the call trace + observability layer that makes your platform stickier for developers. Fast-moving team, founder-direct.

Charles Packer is CEO — PhD, ex-UC Berkeley MemGPT research team. Letta raised Series A building persistent agent memory. Research-oriented founder who moves fast on product but has gaps in internal ops tooling. The pitch: your own agents should be easier to debug and inspect than what you're currently doing manually.

Erik Bernhardsson is CEO — ex-Spotify Head of Data/Eng, strong technical operator. Modal is serverless GPU compute, Series B ~$50M. The billing and usage visibility gap is a known pain point at this stage — customers want per-function cost breakdowns before bills surprise them. Fast close on a focused $10K sprint.

Luyu Zhang is CEO — ex-Tencent, shipped Dify as open-source LLM app development platform, Series A ~$12M. Classic OSS monetization gap: the open-source product is great, the commercial ops layer is an afterthought. Enterprise onboarding and billing ops sprint is a fast close when a founder is staring at this problem every week.

Flo Crivello is CEO — ex-Uber, product-operator background, raised ~$10M Series A. Lindy AI builds AI automation for enterprise workflows. Their own enterprise onboarding ops is manual — ironically not automated. The pitch: your product promises to automate workflows; your own customer onboarding should prove it. Fast close, founder-direct buyer.

Lucy Guo is CEO — ex-Scale AI, Forbes 30U30. Passes raised ~$40M for creator membership/subscription commerce. At scale, payout reconciliation and creator support ops becomes a real pain point. Non-technical-enough-to-care-about-ops background. Fast mover, founder-direct. The pitch is simple: the back-office ops behind your creator payments should match the front-end product quality.

Cole Mason is CEO — founder background, creator economy operator. PearPop is a creator collaboration marketplace, Series A. At their deal volume, campaign ops and payment tracking become the bottleneck. The pitch is direct: every deal you close creates an ops lift your team is absorbing manually. Fast close, focused sprint.

Sean Thielen is CEO — operator background, Series B ~$36M. Koji is a creator link-in-bio app marketplace. App publishers building on Koji have poor earnings visibility — a known friction point that affects platform stickiness. The sprint is clean: build the publisher analytics layer that keeps developers on the platform.

Ken Goldin is CEO — collectibles operator and media personality, non-technical founder. Goldin is a leading collectibles marketplace, Series B. Their seller ops — intake, authentication tracking, payout confirmation — is a real bottleneck at scale. Ken is a dealmaker who understands ops debt. The pitch: your seller experience should match the front-end brand.

Evan Vandenberg is CEO — operator background, Series A. Dibbs fractionalizes sports cards — the intake, PSA/BGS grading coordination, and listing workflow is a known operational bottleneck at their current volume. The pitch is clean: the ops behind your inventory is the slowest part of your flywheel right now.

AJ Orbach is CEO — e-commerce operator background, Series A. Triple Whale is Shopify analytics for DTC brands. At their merchant count, the manual onboarding ops per account is a real cost. Fast-moving team, founder-direct buyer. The pitch: every new merchant you sign creates an onboarding ops lift that a 2-week sprint eliminates.

Austin Harrison is CEO — Series B, e-commerce attribution analytics. Enterprise onboarding is a known pain point for attribution platforms — each new client requires significant manual engineering work to get live. The pitch is direct: you're losing margin on every enterprise onboarding that takes two weeks of eng time to configure.

Brad Redding is CEO — e-commerce data layer, bootstrapped to significant scale. Elevar is a tracking/consent solution for Shopify enterprise brands. Their per-client setup process involves significant manual tag validation and compliance review. Bootstrapped = cost-conscious, fast decision maker. The pitch: the time your team spends on per-client setup is the margin you're leaving on the table.

Ryan King is CEO — ex-Goldman Sachs, operator background. Heron Data classifies bank transactions for fintech clients, Series A ~$10M. The low-confidence classification review queue is a known operational bottleneck — their analysts handle it manually. The pitch: the time your analysts spend in a review queue without proper tooling is margin you're burning.

Taimur Abdaal is CEO — ex-McKinsey, product operator background, raised ~$30M Series A. Causal is financial modeling for fast-growing companies. Enterprise onboarding at this stage involves significant manual data integration work. The pitch: every hour your team spends manually onboarding an enterprise customer is revenue you're not reinvesting.

Bo Han is CEO — ex-Twitter, Series B ~$25M. Buzzer delivers live sports clips and moments to mobile users. The content rights calendar and partner broadcast coordination behind each live event is a real ops burden. The pitch: the ops between a rights window opening and content going live is where you're leaving performance on the table.

Adam Arrigo is CEO — music industry background, Series B. Wave produces virtual/mixed reality concerts for major artists. Their production ops — coordinating timelines, asset delivery, partner comms — is managed ad hoc. The pitch: your production quality is world-class; the ops behind making it happen doesn't reflect that.

Techstars Miami portfolio company building AI document automation. Seed stage, moving fast, ops tooling is typically the first gap post-acceptance. Founder-direct buyer, short decision cycle. Pitch is the ops sprint, but prototype offer is on the table if the product itself isn't built yet.

Techstars Miami portfolio company building AI-powered testing tools. Seed stage. Classic irony: the testing platform's own internal test ops is manual. The pitch is tight — use your own category to close the sprint. Founder-direct, fast cycle.

Techstars Miami portfolio company building AI for legal documents. Seed stage. The internal ops layer — document processing, clause extraction, review workflow — is typically the first thing that breaks under real client load. Founder-direct, fast decision cycle.

Early-stage music rights company focused on YouTube Content ID claiming for creators. The ops layer behind claim ingestion, match tracking, and dispute handling is the bottleneck that breaks at scale. Music vertical gives native HOH context. Founder-direct, fast close.

Early-stage AI music company focused on music intelligence / recommendation. The data pipeline behind the model — ingestion, annotation, validation — is typically the first ops bottleneck post-seed. Music vertical gives HOH native context. Prototype offer is on the table if the product itself isn't scoped yet.

Early-stage music rights AI company building IP management infrastructure. The ownership ingestion, rights graph, and licensing workflow ops are the technical foundation — and the first thing label partners will stress-test. Music vertical gives HOH native context. Sprint-to-build path likely.

$108M Series C, $850M valuation. They sell production-ops discipline to the market — which means their internal team has a high bar and will recognize credible execution immediately. Miami HQ = warm walk-in. Entry path: Techstars Miami alumni, eMerge ecosystem, Refresh Miami.

AI-first cloud for agent deployment — directly adjacent to CONTROLROOM's framing. Walk in with two live products (CONTROLROOM + JEKYLL/HYDE) and the buyer reads it as native. The co-built angle is also real — a resellable observability layer could be additive to their core offering. Founder-led, Miami, no procurement.

Computer vision for construction blueprints. Patrick Murphy is CEO and a direct contact. The pitch is: 'We're the senior team you'd hire if you could hire a whole team for 10 weeks.' Series A companies in this growth zone feel ops chaos acutely — and Patrick will know it. Miami HQ = warm walk-in.

$65M+ raised, Jimmy Iovine backed. Live shopping platform for streetwear, sneakers, collectibles. Drop culture at funded scale — same pain as OFY but with a real engineering team, real pressure, and a live commerce infrastructure that needs to hold during peak traffic. Champion: Head of Product or Head of Commerce Operations.

$237M raised. Gen-2 and Gen-3 video generation — used by production houses, indie filmmakers, and creative agencies. The gap: enterprise clients (ad agencies, studios) need structured delivery pipelines that Runway doesn't provide. HOH can build the ops bridge between Runway's API and professional production delivery. Champion: Head of Enterprise or VP Product. Pitch: 'We build the production layer your enterprise clients need but you don't have time to build yourself.'

Hollywood, FL — $3.5B raised, pivoted hard to enterprise. CEO Ross Rosenberg, CTO Julie Larson-Green. Google partnership announced 2025/26 — AI glasses + enterprise AR is the play. They're rebuilding their software stack for enterprise clients and can't staff every vertical integration. HOH is the dev partner that ships fast with no headcount overhead. Andrew is FL-based: geographically warm, cold outreach.

$52M raised, 35 employees growing to 100+. CEO Arthur Leopold (ex-Cameo President), CTO Jonathan Meyers (ex-Spotify). Creator ad marketplace: YouTube now, TikTok + Snap launching 2026. 5x growth since last raise. The ops chaos window: adding 2 platforms + 65 people in one year means internal deal ops and campaign management tooling breaks before the new hires can fix it. Arthur lived this at Cameo — he'll recognize the problem. Walk in with CONTROLROOM as proof you build autonomous ops systems.

Orlando, FL — Series C, $109M raised, #24 Deloitte Fast 500. CPTO Chris Kucharski leads product + tech; David Daeschler (EVP Data Science & AI) is the technical detail person. Bill Catania (CEO) is a straight-shooter who moves fast. Andrew is FL-based — this is a warm walk-in opportunity with a real growth-stage company in the expansion corridor.

140-year-old luxury resort in Palm Beach, privately owned by a foundation. Independent ownership = no corporate IT mandate but also real operational debt. Multi-venue complexity: five restaurants, golf, spa, beach club, event center — all running different systems. Andrew is local. Cold, but geographically warm. The play: HOH as the fractional senior infrastructure team they'd otherwise have to staff permanently.

Enterprise AI app platform. Shanea Leven is a second-time founder — she's been through 'wish I had senior systems help earlier' once before and won't make the same mistake. The Production Readiness Audit framing lands because it has a deliverable, not just a retainer proposal. Close fast.