ORLANDO - IFM Ventures announced that it has invested $200,000 in venVelo, a venture fund and business accelerator headquartered in Winter Park. IFM’s investment in venVelo follows that of Oakstone Holdings.

venVelo focuses on early-stage investments, it invested in flexReceipts in late 2012.

Richard Licursi, CEO and co-founder of venVelo says “venVelo welcomes this investment from IFM. It will offer IFM access to our deal flow and gives us additional funding as we move ahead in building out our portfolio,” said Licursi.

NEW YORK, NY - Deloitte released its 4th Annual Tech Trends Report "Elements of Postdigital," highlighting the top 10 enabling and disrupting technology trends that are expected to be drivers for businesses as they move toward achieving the potential of the postdigital enterprise.  At the core of achieving this vision, the report examines the convergence and controlled collision of five forces: analytics, mobile, social, cloud and cyber, where all five forces are mature, implemented, integrated and baked-in instead of bolted on.

JACKSONVILLE - Shad Khan, owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate, will partner with One Spark, the world's first crowdfunding festival, to offer the potential of up to $1 million in capital investment focused on creators who participate in the April event taking place in Jacksonville.

ORLANDO - For the eighth consecutive year, multiple industry partners join Orlando Science Center to celebrate the role interactive technology plays in the way we live, learn, work and play during Otronicon hosted on January 18–21.

This year, partners including EA SPORTS, University of Central Florida and Florida Hospital for Children demonstrate Orlando’s impact on the world of entertainment, simulation, education, training, health care and more.

TAMPA - Tampa Bay WaVE and the University of South Florida received a $1 million grant by the U.S. Commerce Department to support early stage technology ventures. Tampa Bay WaVE, along with USF and the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, led a regional coalition of partners on the federal grant that earmarks funds to help at least 80 Florida-based startups secure early-stage funding through the planned launch of the FirstWaVE Accelerator and the FirstWaVE Venture Center.

BOCA RATON - Healthcare application development firm, Modernizing Medicine announced that it completed a $12 million capital raise, with a combination of equity capital and a senior bank debt facility.

The equity round was led by return backer Pentland Group plc, and joined by many of Modernizing Medicine's customers. Modernizing Medicine plans to use the funding to, among other things, accelerate growth in existing markets, launch into new specialty-specific verticals and to continue ongoing p roduct innovation.