Debbie Kantor, inventor and co-founder of Hero Medical Technologies. Co-founder Gurpreet Misra with attendees Teresa, Tamara, and Marinda Kantor gave a presentation on her business. By Holly Tishfield Circle of Creation returned to the link at Nocatee last week to kick off its third iteration, with this year’s resounding theme of “Reimagine follows Disruption.” While 2025 taught attendees about the powerful synergy between Emotional Intelligence (El) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), 2026 is...

Kate McAfoose is the president of Curabotics. Photo by Sylvie McCarthy By Sylvie McCarthy On Feb. 26, the link hosted an Innovation Symposium that was centered around robotics. Jacksonville is often recognized as a logistics and transportation hub, but the city is also becoming a leader in robotics. From health care to public safety, these advancements are changing how we think about the future of work in our region. Curabotics is a Jacksonville-based company that is looking to transform the...

From left to right, The Link Chief Strategy Officer Randall Thomas alongside co-founders Raghu and Gurpreet Misra. Since 2019, Duval and St. Johns counties have quietly developed into a destination for startup innovators . This also happens to be the same year that Raghu and Gurpreet Misra first conceptualized the link — an 16,000-square-foot innovation and community hub in Nocatee that is focused on collaboration, co-working, and education In the latest episode of Florida Business Minds,...