Just weeks after officially joining the billionaires club, AI founder Daniel Nadler dropped $38.2 million on a fully furnished penthouse at Four Seasons Residences at the Surf Club.
The purchase works out to a record $6,731 per square foot. Records show Nadler bought penthouse 2 in the south tower at 9001 Collins Avenue in Surfside. The seller was an entity linked to Claire and Anthony Florence, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
Nadler told the publication he’d given up his rental in Miami and was living at the Surf Club Four Seasons hotel when a friend pointed out the option of buying a condo.
“I didn’t want the overhead of dealing with houses and all of the stuff that comes with houses,” he told the newspaper. “If I could wake up at 4 a.m. and just order room service — this is so perfect.”
Ximena Penuela with Fort Realty represented both the buyer and the seller.
Nadler is the founder of OpenEvidence, an AI platform for doctors to stay up to date on medical research. Earlier this month, OpenEvidence closed a $210 million funding round that brought the company’s valuation to $3.5 billion. Nadler founded the company in 2022 and has a 60 percent stake in the firm. He also previously founded and sold Kensho, a financial intelligence service, for $550 million in 2018. Following this month’s funding round, Forbes reported his net worth at $2.3 billion.
The seller, Anthony Florence, who goes by Tony, is co-CEO of National Enterprise Associates, a New York-based venture firm with $25 billion in assets under management. The firm is known for its early investments in Snapchat, Robinhood, Duolingo, Casper, and Perplexity. Claire Florence is a designer.
The couple bought the penthouse for $29.4 million in 2022, property records show. The nearly 5,700-square-foot penthouse has five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, records show.
“Whatever I paid, I think it will be double that in five years,” Nadler told the Journal.
Fort Partners completed Surf Club Four Seasons in 2017. The complex includes two 12-story buildings totaling 150 condos, a 72-key hotel, and a restaurant by French Laundry founder Thomas Keller, four pools and a private club. The design team included architects Kobi Karp and Pritzker Prize-winner Richard Meier.
In June, Lynda Carter, best known for portraying Wonder Woman, sold her unit for $19.5 million. In March, hedge funder Patrick McMahon sold his condo for $24.9 million.
