We are delighted to release the "Miami Creative Tech Startups Report 2023" that explores the burgeoning Creative Tech ecosystem in Miami and its numerous facets, from art and design to music and film.

This initiative materialized through the collaboration of two key organizers – Fuelarts and BitBasel, a local CryptoArt community that has played a pivotal role in the ascent of Bitcoin, NFTs, and the positioning of Miami as the global crypto capital.

The purpose of this report is to highlight the diverse Creative Tech ecosystem in Miami and the programs that contribute to their establishment and growth, including educational, venture, and partnership initiatives. These startups span various sectors such as art, design, fashion, music, literature, theatre, media, and cinema.

The report covers Art+Tech startups, including NFT and Generative AI companies, and features interviews with key opinion leaders. Similar to the findings in 2022, Fuelarts continues to offer significant insights into investments within the Art+Tech sector.

The H1 2023 report places a significant emphasis on AI, offering a comprehensive analysis of the role and evolution of AI technologies in the Art+Tech sector. It further conducts a comparative assessment of leading generative AI art platforms and delves into the investment trends observed in AI Art+Tech startups, spanning from 2000 to the present day.

The uniqueness of this report also lies in its design. Ukrainian designer Alexey Kohanov has created separate visualizations for each page using generative AI.

The main focus of the report is cumulative investments in Art+Tech & NFT Startups in 2022. It gives the market overview, investment numbers and portraits of investors, overviews trends and opportunities in both the Physical Art+Tech market and the Digital & NFT space.

The Tezos Art Ecosystem is covered in a separate chapter, providing the first complex overview of the Tezos' art vertical and its recent developments. The Report also provides an outlook on investment trends in the Art+Tech sector for 2023, drawing from the perspectives of startups, strategists, and the Fuelarts platform itself.

The Report includes case studies and interviews with leaders in Art Market and Web3 space including Anders Petterson (ArtTactic), Mason Edwards (The Tezos Foundation), Bernadine Bröcker Wieder (Arcual), Vitomir Jevremovic (ALL.ART), Paul Viktor Schmidt (fx(hash), Valérie C. Whitacre (TriliTech), and Sandy Carter (Unstoppable Domains).

The research is focused on Art+Tech & NFT ecosystem, portraits of the investors, analytics on the specialized funds that are ready to invest in this sector.

We present interviews with key stakeholders of the industry. In this section we have included interviews with Head of Pace Verso Ariel Hudes, NFT collector and venture capitalist Ryan Zurrer, co-founder of Artfacts and Limna Marek Claassen, Head of Finance and Operations at Galaxy Labs Mohnish Mehta, Art Blocks's COO Hugh Heslep and Amadeo Global's CEO Jeff Eshleman.

The latest report by Fuelarts intends to support the market and its representatives by presenting current state of the market and revealing positive trends in investments into Art+Tech & NFT sector.

The 70-page report is a unique study on Art+Tech & NFT Ecosystem, revealing data on startups' geographical distribution, stages of startups' development, and investment attractiveness over the past 30 years. FUELARTS' analytics presents data on the type of investors in the ecosystem and shares key problems and solutions in the field. Also, for the first time, the activity of female-founded startups is analyzed.

In particular, the report answers the following questions:

· Was 2021 the most successful year for startups in terms of investments?
· What type of investors were more active in Art+Tech in 2021 and why?
· Who led the TOP in terms of investments last year - a startup from the physical art market or the NFT one?
· How do art startups created by female founders correlate with their vitality and financial success?