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West Palm Beach & Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County has attracted a wave of finance and wealth-management firms, anchoring the Ambition Accelerated FinTech track in West Palm Beach.

Ambition Accelerated Ambition Accelerated hostHosts the FinTech track

Organizations

West Palm BeachCoworking

1909

Nonprofit coworking space and entrepreneur-support organization for founders and small-business owners in Palm Beach County.

Sector-agnostic
West Palm BeachNonprofit / Community

BioFlorida

Statewide membership association representing Florida's life sciences industry across biopharma, medtech, digital health, and health systems.

HealthTechBiotech & Life Sciences
West Palm BeachEDO / Government

Business Development Board of Palm Beach County

The official public-private economic development organization of Palm Beach County, promoting the region as 'Wall Street South' for financial services and fintech.

FinTechSector-agnostic
West Palm BeachAccelerator

Gold Coast Tech Accelerator (Ambition Accelerated FinTech Track) Ambition AcceleratedPartner

Eight-week hybrid accelerator for B2B financial-technology startups hosted in West Palm Beach, the FinTech track of Florida's statewide Ambition Accelerated platform.

FinTech
West Palm BeachService Provider

Gunster

A Florida law firm with an emerging-companies and venture practice.

Sector-agnostic
West Palm BeachVenture Capital

HighPost Capital

West Palm Beach investment firm founded by Mark Bezos and David Moross; its HIPstr affiliate runs a $100M early-stage consumer venture fund.

Consumer & E-commerceSector-agnostic
West Palm BeachAngel Network

New World Angels

An angel investor group backing early-stage Florida companies.

Sector-agnostic
West Palm BeachCorporate Innovation

Related Ross Ambition AcceleratedPartner

Stephen Ross real-estate firm

PropTech
West Palm BeachNonprofit / Community

South Florida Tech Hub

Regional nonprofit tech association, formerly the Palm Beach Tech Association, uniting South Florida's technology and startup ecosystem.

Sector-agnostic
West Palm BeachIncubator

The Runway at Florida Atlantic

Florida Atlantic University's public-private technology accelerator and startup incubator in Boca Raton.

FinTechHealthTechSector-agnostic
West Palm BeachUniversity / Research

The Runway at Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University's venture development program and startup incubator in Boca Raton, formerly FAU Tech Runway.

Sector-agnostic

Startups

West Palm BeachGrowth / Scaling

Blue Frontier

Develops ultra-efficient, energy-storing rooftop air conditioners for commercial buildings that cut cooling electricity use by 50-90% and can act as grid-connected virtual power plants.

Resilience & ClimateCleanTech & EnergyRaised a $20M Series A in July 2022 led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with 2150 and VoLo Earth Ventures; later added additional growth capital.
West Palm BeachEarly-stage

Carbon Limit

Makes CaptureCrete, a pour-in concrete additive that mineralizes and permanently stores CO2 from the air to reduce concrete's carbon footprint.

Resilience & ClimateCleanTech & EnergyAdvanced ManufacturingTechstars (2021) and Google for Startups Accelerator (2022) alum; awarded $740K through the South Florida ClimateReady Tech Hub (U.S. EDA) in 2024 to scale CaptureCrete.
West Palm BeachSeed

Dono

Dono uses AI to scrape and collate public property records, making property ownership data instantly accessible to lenders, mortgage servicers and real estate investors.

PropTechAI & DataRaised a $6.5M seed round led by Link Ventures to make property-ownership information more immediately accessible.
West Palm BeachEarly-stage

Florida Organic Aquaculture

Grows antibiotic- and chemical-free organic Pacific white shrimp in enclosed greenhouse aquaculture systems.

AgTechMarine & Blue TechTested production methods at Florida Tech's Vero Beach Marine Lab; projected to create roughly 60 on-farm jobs.
West Palm BeachGrowth / Scaling

Modernizing Medicine (ModMed)

Cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and revenue cycle software built with practicing physicians for specialties like dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics.

HealthTechAI & DataFounded by Blackboard co-founder Daniel Cane and dermatologist Michael Sherling; received a $231M equity investment from Warburg Pincus-affiliated funds; a flagship South Florida healthtech employer.
West Palm BeachGrowth / Scaling

Ondas Inc.

Ondas builds autonomous drone platforms and counter-drone systems, including the American Robotics Optimus drone-in-a-box for 24/7 automated ISR and security operations.

Dual-Use & Defense TechAerospace & SpaceAI & DataOptimus drone approved on the DCMA Blue UAS Cleared List for rapid federal procurement; also markets the Iron Drone Raider counter-drone interceptor and Sentrycs detection system.
West Palm BeachGrowth / Scaling

Terran Orbital

Terran Orbital designs and manufactures small satellites and spacecraft components for national-security, defense and commercial customers.

Dual-Use & Defense TechAerospace & SpaceAdvanced ManufacturingAnnounced a planned $300M spacecraft manufacturing facility on Florida's Space Coast; acquired by Lockheed Martin in a ~$450M deal completed October 2024.

Industry players

West Palm BeachNASDAQ: ADMA

ADMA Biologics

ADMA Biologics is an end-to-end commercial biopharmaceutical company that operates its FDA-licensed plasma fractionation and immune-globulin manufacturing facility in Boca Raton, Florida (with corporate offices also in Ramsey, New Jersey).

Biotech & Life SciencesRevenue ~$420M (FY2024) · NASDAQ: ADMA
West Palm Beach

ModMed (Modernizing Medicine)

ModMed is a Boca Raton-based health-IT company whose specialty-specific EHR, practice management, revenue-cycle, and analytics software is used by tens of thousands of providers.

HealthTechAI & DataRevenue ~$296M · 2,500+ employees
West Palm BeachNYSE: NEE

NextEra Energy, Inc.

NextEra Energy is the parent of Florida Power & Light (the largest U.S. electric utility) and NextEra Energy Resources, the world's largest generator of wind and solar power, headquartered in Juno Beach.

CleanTech & EnergyRevenue $24.8B (2024) · NYSE: NEE
West Palm BeachNASDAQ: SBCF

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is the holding company for Seacoast National Bank, providing banking, wealth management, mortgage and insurance services through roughly 79 Florida branches, headquartered in Stuart.

FinTech~500-1,000 employees · NASDAQ: SBCF
West Palm Beach

Terran Orbital

Terran Orbital is a Boca Raton-based manufacturer of small satellites and satellite components for U.S. and allied aerospace and defense customers, acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2024.

Aerospace & SpaceDual-Use & Defense Tech~360 employees
West Palm Beach

The ODP Corporation (Office Depot)

The ODP Corporation, doing business as Office Depot and ODP Business Solutions, is a Boca Raton-based office-supply retailer and B2B distribution company that was taken private by Atlas Holdings in December 2025.

Consumer & E-commerceLogistics & MobilityRevenue $6.99B (FY2024) · ~19,000 employees