From Tel Aviv to the Gold Coast: Israeli Tech CEO Eyes South Florida as His American Beachhead
Earlier this week we profiled Israel Tech Week in Miami, which took place April 26–30, highlighting the organizers’ expansion plans beyond Miami-Dade County. Growing the conference’s footprint into Palm Beach and Broward Counties, founder Ayal Stern said, are high priorities.
One Israeli founder keen on looking north is Oded Eliashiv, CEO of Adam AI Continuum, a Tel Aviv-based continuous-intelligence platform for private markets. The company built traction in Europe and the Middle East. Now Eliashiv turns his attention westward.
South Florida is the first chapter of that American story and Eliashiv’s reasoning is hard to argue.
“Miami is not just a U.S. entry point anymore. It is a gateway to two continents simultaneously. You land here and you can reach New York, São Paulo, Mexico City, all from the same base,” said Eliashiv.
A Gateway Where Capital, Talent and Markets Converge
Adam AI Continuum gives investors, family offices, startups, and professional service ecosystems a real-time dashboard of companies and investment opportunities. Every participant receives real-time, evidence-linked information directly from companies. The platform replaces the lag and manual effort that slows private market decision-making.
The region’s dual-access logic: the U.S. institutional capital market, and Latin America’s fast-growing private markets ecosystem, drives Israeli founders to view South Florida as a strategic home base. Not a stopover, but a base. LatAm family offices and venture funds there hunger for real-time intelligence infrastructure and South Florida, he said, makes perfect sense as the U.S. home.
The Migration Story Extends Beyond Miami
While most Israeli founders orbited Brickell and Wynwood, Eliashiv said he asked pointed questions about what was happening north. He had also done his homework.
He knew about ServiceNow, the Fortune 500 AI giant committed to a 200,000-square-foot headquarters in West Palm Beach. It brings 850-plus jobs. Average salary: $170,000. Projected economic impact: $1.8 billion over five years. He knew DigitalBridge completed its move to Delray Beach’s Sundy Village, 79,000 square feet. Dycom Industries relocated its corporate headquarters to West Palm Beach. Goldman Sachs expanded its county footprint. Vanderbilt University broke ground on a graduate AI and data science campus. The scorecard over five years: 140-plus companies relocated. $1.12 billion in capital investment. 13,000 direct jobs.
“When you see a company like ServiceNow choose West Palm Beach over dozens of other American cities, that is not a coincidence. That is a county that did the work,” stated Eliashiv.
What draws him is not just the cost arbitrage. It is the character of the companies choosing it. ServiceNow, DigitalBridge, and their peers build operational infrastructure. They hire engineers, not just executives. That signals something more durable than a tax-driven migration wave.
A Launchpad With Two Runways
For companies like Adam AI Continuum, South Florida offers something most U.S. markets cannot: proximity to Latin America without sacrificing access to U.S. institutional capital. Eliashiv has watched Miami evolve from a financial outpost into a genuine tech ecosystem, one with venture firms, family offices, accelerators, and a growing pool of bilingual technical talent. For an intelligence platform whose customers are investors and family offices, being where serious capital concentrates matters more than a prestigious zip code.
In Eliashiv’s view, Palm Beach County delivers that and more. The Runway at Florida Atlantic University is an accelerator in Boca Raton seeds homegrown startups countywide. The twin CityPlace towers in downtown West Palm Beach attract enterprise tech tenants at a fraction of Brickell costs. A rapidly maturing investor community anchors the whole corridor.
No formal announcement from Adam AI Continuum is planned yet. But before Israel Tech Week wrapped, Eliashiv scheduled a day trip north, not to Palm Beach Island, but to West Palm Beach, to see what Stephen Ross is building and decide whether to be part of it.
“If they are right about what West Palm Beach is becoming, I want to be in that story early,” shared Eliashiv, CEO.
