West Palm Beach is emerging as a leading venture capital hub driven by deal flow, startups, and strategic connectors.  

Unlike most career-defining ideas, Tara Pike’s came to her while rifling through a dumpster. In the ’90s, Pike had abandoned her hopes of becoming a journalist after what she says was an aimless semester at the student newspaper, then called The Rebel Yell. Pike needed a mentor. Her soul-searching just so happened to coincide with...

  Venture capital firm Portal Innovations is planning to open a 30,000-square-foot science incubator in Salt Lake City while also establishing a venture fund to support early-stage life sciences and biotech companies. The expansion is part of Portal’s managed services platform, Powered by Portal, which has launched incubator locations in Chicago, New Jersey and Rhode...