Nine startups competed in front of a shark tank-like panel of judges at SuperConf, held at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday. After the judges deliberated, one Miami company — CodeMeet — left with $26,000 in cash and prizes.

CodeMeet, founded by Deverraux Jones, is a live video and realtime platform for developers around the world to meet and work on code together. Jones moved to Miami about six months ago from Boston, where he was a student at MIT and developed the platform. So far a one-man show, Jones is ready to put his prize money to work by beginning to build out his team, and will be looking for programmers and business development people, he said.

Each presenting company gave a 10-minute pitch and then was grilled by the judges, some of which were angel and venture capital investors from around the country, as well as by the audience, which numbered about 100. The pitches were also live-streamed on superconf.co/live throughout the day.

The other companies that presented were Freqent, Politify, LiveNinja, 71Lbs, GoodMate, WhatUpBridge, Flomio and DateLatte. All but Politify and Goodmate are from Florida. Miami-based LiveNinja, a video chat marketplace and monetization platform for experts on any topic, was runnerup and received $3,500 in prizes. Its founders are Will Weinraub, Emilio Cueto and Alfonso Martinez.

The nine companies were chosen from a pool of about 60 from around the country, the organizers said. Opportunities to network and pitch in front of investors are becoming more commonplace in South Florida, a healthy development for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. SuperConf is one of about a dozen events that were held this week as part of Miami Tech Week.

SuperConf is billed as a two-day conference where web development and entrepreneurship converge. Organized by developer Auston Bunsen for the second year, the conference continues Saturday for ticket-holders, and will feature speakers such as Jeremy Ashkenas of the New York Times and creator of programming language CoffeeScript, Zach Holman and Ben Bleikamp of GitHub, Jason L. Baptiste of OnSwipe, Chris Nagele of Wildbit, Richard Crowley of Square and Luke Seeley of MetaLab, publicist Pabla Ayala said.