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If you are a telecommuter, entrepreneur, freelancer, small business, a budding startup, or a remote worker looking for a shared office, here are the top five coworking spaces in Florida.

Having a furry friend wander the office can help improve collaboration, increase creativity, boost employee morale, improve employee satisfaction and decrease stress, to name a few of the benefits.

Coworking for me has always been about its power to connect with people. Beyond just a productive space, I believe a healthy dose of human interaction is very important for our hardworking souls. From my experience, being able to brush shoulders in the same space with different people from all sorts of disciplines, has made the “networking” come naturally and even forged a handful of real deal friendships along the way. Granted all that takes time and patience, but coworking spaces provide the ideal environment for connection, all you have to do is show up and start working.

In hundreds of conversations with Miamians working in the startup scene, we’ve heard that innovative workspaces and serendipitous interactions are important parts of the connective tissue that makes a community possible. Miami has a growing number of coworking and flexible office spaces providing unique places for locals to build their ideas.

Today when you think of Miami, you should not limit its image to sunny beaches and sweet cocktails, because a thriving startup scene is blossoming in this beautiful city. In fact, Miami has been well on its way to becoming the epicenter of tech startups and innovative businesses of the Southeast. The need for coworking spaces comes hand in hand with the promising future of startup phenomenon in Miami. If you are one of the startups looking for a coworking space, or maybe you are just curious about what good coworking options Miami is offering, you should read this hand-picked list of the best coworking spaces in Miami!

Miami is home to an innovative community of creatives, thinkers, startups, and future-oriented businesses. As a culturally diverse and artistic city, Miami is a dynamic spot where inspiration is endless and where ideas can come to fruition. In response to this thriving technological, artistic, and eclectic entrepreneurial spirit, there has been a welcomed influx of Miami coworking spaces. Whether you are a freelancer, startup, small business, or established company, find your ideal coworking space in Miami with our comprehensive guide below.

One of the most powerful businesswomen in the Middle East is slated to appear at the second annual Future Of Logistics Summit, hosted by LAB Ventures.

Welcome to our new Space Spotlight series, where we will be highlighting some of the amazing spaces in the Upflex network. This time we featured the inside of the LAB Miami, a coworking community reflects the vibrant arts district where it resides.

Given the fiercely competitive marketplace in most cosmopolitan cities, coworking spaces now — more than ever before — need to focus on driving traffic and awareness to their brand.

There are many ways your team can add value to your space and evolve past your coworking walls. Creating content and engaging with others around the world can truly help expand your brand.

It’s no longer just Silicon Valley type companies who embrace the trend. Remote employees, teams and indeed entire companies are popping up all over the country. But from small local cafes to huge industrial style buildings, where are the best places to co-work in America?

Miami’s bustling coworking scene is continuously evolving, with new shared office spaces popping up all the time in various areas of the busy metropolis. With such a relentlessly competitive market, it’s no wonder that many coworking hubs aim at offering something a little extra to lure in new guests and clients. One of these hip and trendy features which many companies have recently adopted is a pet-friendly policy.

LAB Miami Ventures is proud to announce the ten startups advancing as finalists for the Future of Logistics Tech Summit Pitch Competition on November 14, presented by goTRG.

Miami’s innovative and creative spirit is evident in its the bright city and its hardworking people, many of whom are self-starting entrepreneurs. In an effort to help these workers find trendy but effective spaces, Miami is now home to several quite stylish co-working office spaces—here are our top 10 options.

We are super excited to facilitate the office space to Grassroots Medicine, and we look forward to welcoming their wellness center to the neighborhood! 

We are super excited to facilitate the office space to Grassroots Medicine, and we look forward to welcoming their wellness center to the neighborhood! 

MyRentHero is a real estate-technology startup focused on simplifying the off-campus housing process for students, parents, and landlords. With Reed as a shareholder, MyRentHero is now launching now on the campuses of UM and the University of South Florida

Seatrade Cruise Global, the leading annual global business-to-business event for the cruise industry, has partnered with LAB Miami Ventures for the 2018 Future of Travel Summit startup competition.

The Future of Travel Summit, slated to take place at 400 NW 26th Street in Miami, will gather startups, investors and global travel brands to share insights into what is driving innovation in the cruise industry, one of South Florida’s most dominant sectors.

Leading international fashion house, Perry Ellis International is teaming up with LAB Ventures, and angel-investor network, AGP Miami, to launch Pitch to PERY, a search for the next great startup revolutionizing the fashion, e-commerce and retail industries.

Developers from all over Miami congregate at The Lab Miami to compete in 48-hour Bitcoin Hackathon. Their mission: To write code that empowers the world.

The LAB Miami and the Knight Foundation are partnering up to debut two new initiatives that plan on giving minority and women entrepreneurs the tools they need to fortify their chances of success: LAB.ID and LAB.Ventures officially launched Nov. 1.

Where should you work? Try an inspiring coworking space near you.

WashMyWhip, launched in April 2016 and contributed to startup activity in Miami, which ranked No. 1 of 40 metro areas

Ask any entrepreneur in South Florida what’s the biggest hurdle to their success, and the answer will almost certainly be access to capital.

A powerful trio took on The LAB Miami.

Action Club, a group founded in January 2012 whose mission statement reads: “Creating a space where collectively we inspire and encourage one another to achieve our dreams.”

With LAB Ventures, The LAB will become Miami’s tech matchmaker.

Thomas Tigre Wenrich, co-founder and general manager of LAB Ventures, tells Diario Las Americas about his commitment to inclusive entrepreneurship in the Latin market in Miami and introduces us to his entrepreneurs factory.

It may be cool to use your mind to control your beer tap, and technology could help you do that. But what’s really more important: The instant beer — or using technology to make your brain healthier, stronger, better?

The concept behind the Masters of Tomorrow Summit, the daylong conference and music event focusing on technology, design and music at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse in Miami Wednesday, Nov. 30, is simple: bringing together smart people who have great stories to tell in a fun setting where they can meet, learn and, perhaps, nurture the next big idea.

Bring together the maker of the brain activity measuring product Muse, the head of virtual reality for Radiant Images, the designer of the Ford GT, an expert putting big data to work in climate change solutions, and other entrepreneurs and academics in technology and design, and what do you get? A glimpse into the future of technology and design.

The co-founders of Miami College of Design say the educational facility will be Florida’s first accredited college focused on industrial design when it opens in Miami’s Wynwood.

Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, already a hub for artists, technologists and other creatives, will soon be the home of the new Miami College of Design.

Thomas “Tigre” Wenrich is CEO of The LAB Miami and LAB.Ventures. Today Knight Foundation, an original investor in The LAB Miami, is announcing a new investment of $1.1 million to help expand The LAB’s programming and expand economic opportunity for South Florida’s entrepreneurs.

Knight Foundation invests $1.1 million to support the evolution of The LAB Miami

The LAB Miami, one of South Florida’s co-working pioneers, on Tuesday announced expansion plans that include the launch of two entrepreneurship programs and a new CEO. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing $1.1 million to support The LAB’s evolution.

Wynwood Defined to the Letter – The ABC’s of Miami’s Art District, features The LAB Miami. The LAB is Wynwood’s original co-working space offering a creative campus for entrepreneurs.

With beautiful surroundings and sunny weather year round, it can be difficult to get work done in Florida, especially when you work for yourself.

CEO Alberto Perlman spoke to a tech audience about building and scaling the global fitness brand.

In 2015, Values Partnerships organized the first nationwide casting tour for ABC’s Shark Tank focused on bringing more diverse ideas and voices to the show.

here’s a certain formula to farmers’ markets: rows of polyester tents, each with their own colorful displays of products to peruse and sample…

We’re standing on the tiled rooftop terrace of Fernandez’s apartment in Coral Gables on a pink Miami morning. “My grandfather lived in this development,” he says as he rolls out a blue yoga mat.

The LAB Miami is a coworking space with a goal: reinvigorate the city, one neighborhood at a time

If passion and creativity are critical to success, South Florida’s future as a culturally rich metropolis is in good hands. That’s the takeaway from 300-plus nominations for the 2014 Miami Herald 20 Under 40 class of emerging leaders.

Wifredo Fernandez and Daniel Lafuente started the LAB Miamiout of necessity. Friends from childhood, they had an idea for an Internet-based firm but had “no technical background and difficulty meeting techies,” Lafuente, 27, says. “There wasn’t a go-to place where entrepreneurs hung out. We wanted to create that.”

Moving beyond Miami’s urban core, entrepreneurial spaces are opening up all over South Florida. Some are tackling untapped markets while others are focused on niche industries.

In this Thursday, April 10, 2014 photo, Nelson Milian, left, Carrie Monescalchi, center, and Mai Sari chat as they work on their computers at The LAB Miami, a new tech focused collaborative space in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami.

MIAMI — In a sunny, roomy office overlooking a vibrant bustling Miami Avenue below, Freddie Laker is putting the finishing touches on a potentially groundbreaking app that turns written text into video.

MIAMI — In a sunny, roomy office overlooking a vibrant bustling Miami Avenue below, Freddie Laker is putting the finishing touches on a potentially groundbreaking app that turns written text into video.

Since the beginning of the year I have been bullish about New York City’s momentum as an innovation center (Why 2013 Will Be A Big Year For NYC) and so far my optimism has proven to be well placed…

You don ‘t usually think of Miami as the place for tech startups and social enterprises. But the co-founders of the LAB Miami are trying to turn the area into a place known as much for entrepreneurship as sunny weather and South Beach. “We felt Miami lacked the platform to retain its top talent and allow them a place to cultivate their businesses.”

In the short amount of time LAB Miami’s been around, it’s drawn quite a bit of attention — and not just because it’s housed in one of the trippiest buildings in Wynwood.

It was a utopian scene. More than 80 folding chairs faced a chalkboard adorned with multihued verses as coworking campus The LAB Miami hosted a Friday night poetry and ballet commission as part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival.

Right across the street from Epicurator, The LAB Miami also shares a wall with community arts center Light Box at Goldman Warehouse. Both venues are funded by the Knight Foundation, which recently invested $250k out of the $650k The LAB’s team raised for its new 10,000 square foot space.