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10 Florida Family Offices Investing in Startups (2026)

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Here are ten active family offices from our database that are based in Florida and invest in startups, along with their websites:

  1. FOD Capital (Key West)
    FOD Capital is a family office investment fund organized in December 2017 by Donald Foss and Michael Raymond. From Key West it draws on a deep network of professional relationships, proprietary referral sources, and like-minded family offices to identify entrepreneurial, opportunistic investments across a wide range of categories and risk profiles.
  2. Hudson Capital Group (Fort Lauderdale)
    Hudson Capital Group was founded in 1997 by Harris "Whit" Hudson and his son Steve as a private family office investing in private equity, select startup ventures, and real estate. The firm has been involved in developing over 4,000 apartments and condo units across Florida cities and Dallas, and its affiliates own warehouses, retail centers, and office buildings throughout South Florida.
  3. Halstatt (Naples)
    Halstatt is a family owned investment firm headquartered in Naples, led by CEO Katie Sproul, the great-granddaughter of Barron Gift Collier, founder of Collier County. With its network of affiliated firms it manages capital across a broad range of asset classes, including money for select family offices and institutional investors.
  4. Bess Ventures (Miami Beach)
    Bess Ventures and Advisory is the family office fund of Lane Bess. It brings decades of operational experience to founders and early to mid-stage companies across business and government sectors, helping them scale, reach profitability, and move toward public markets.
  5. Marc Bell Capital Partners (Boca Raton)
    Marc Bell Capital Partners is a single family office founded in 2003 by entrepreneur Marc Bell, managing wealth generated through his internet-infrastructure firm Globix Corporation, Broadway productions, and real estate. It deploys flexible capital across venture, private equity, and opportunistic real estate, favoring space technology, hospitality, consumer, and credit situations.
  6. Raptor Group (Miami)
    The Raptor Group, backed by the family office of Jim Pallotta, sources and invests in companies across stages and asset classes, from early stage to private and public equity and funds. It concentrates on technology, fintech, sports, consumer, media, entertainment, and healthcare, adding operating expertise and a global network alongside its capital.
  7. Talisman Family Alliance (Miami)
    Talisman Family Alliance focuses on early stage and pro-rata venture capital investments, blockchain funds, and a few hedge funds. Founded in 2014, it has offices in Miami, New York, and Palo Alto and leads co-investments in pre-seed funds, syndicates, accelerators, and micro VCs.
  8. One One Five Group of Companies (Fort Lauderdale)
    One One Five is a single family office headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, run by experienced entrepreneurs and investment experts. It partners with founders from early stage seed funding through pre-IPO opportunities, across real estate, fintech, health-tech, biotech, and industrial sectors.
  9. MFO Ventures (Delray Beach)
    MFO Ventures is the family office formed by Dr. Eric Moskow to manage his family's assets and partner with investors. Building on six prior successful ventures, it combines operating experience, a broad network, and a flexible pool of capital to back the next wave of healthcare innovators.
  10. Aviano Ventures (Naples)
    Aviano Ventures is the private investment company and family office of the Janca family in Naples. A low volume, high touch investor, it makes a handful of investments a year, ranging from early revenue startups to growth capital for companies with up to $25 million in revenue, in areas such as healthcare IT, pharma supply chain, and data analytics.

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