Dear friends and colleagues,

In 2020, COVID-19 created turmoil in the world and brought up the fragility of what we have taken for granted. It highlighted everything that divides us. From the extreme disparities in the areas of food and job security, access to health care and education and civil rights, to the day-to-day life challenges faced by all members of society.

As I write this in 2025, I reflect on the changes over the past five years and notably the recent loss of our co-founding matriarch. I am more and more convinced that the continuous commitment of our family to economic, environmental and social impact is essential to our common futures; that of our family and the planet we inhabit.

Change is inevitable and despite our mourning for those we have lost, we are changing our governane structure and will focus all our efforts on what unites us. We believe that “Creativity is the literacy of our time” and to find solutions to the challenges we are facing, we need to be able to draw on as much and diverse talents as possible.

To reflect on the state of the world today, we have made changes to our structure as well as our portfolio by adding Technology & Innovation and Defence & Security as pillars alongside our existing five areas of focus. These portfolios will address AI and its impact on our mission as well as the impacts of armed conflicts in the world. We will continue to expand and grow our investment portfolios, operating units and collaborations across these areas.
Our Health Care & Health Tech porfolios alongside Turtle Labs will continue to focus on accelerating sustainable innovations, technologies and solutions through new collaborations such as Foundry 42 in the areas of longevity, women’s health, nutraceuticals, nutrition and digital therapeutics. The investments focus remains on nutrition, education and local, supporting health care services with other collaborators who share our values.

In our Energy & Environment portfolio, we will continue our focus on climate solutions that enhance our abilities to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis through new technologies, products and services.

Cultivating talent and fostering a sustainability mind-set through the family’s Education portfolio and ViaTalenta Academy will continue accelerating knowledge transfer through new media channels, master – apprentice collaborations and upskilling crisis management and turn-around capabilities in the entrepreneurial and corporate landscape. We will also continue our focus on child-lens investing and engaging the Next Generations in the forefront of our work.
Curating local works for global audiences and providing an outlet for the exchange of perspectives and showcase how we are coping with current situations continues to expand the reach of our ImpactArt portfolio.

The future is what we make it. As a family, we shall continue to diversify our portfolios while collaborating, engaging and funding new projects in pursuit of our purpose: “To protect and enhance the human condition”.

Georgio Pauen

OUR PURPOSE

To protect and enhance the human condition.

OUR MISSION

Drive impact and sustainability through investments, philanthropy and personal engagement. Leave a better world for generations to come.

OUR VALUES

Exigence – We believe that only the best is good enough.

Honour – We carry out our responsibilities to the highest standards of integrity and transparency.  What we say is what we do.

Curiosity – We have a passion to explore and understand the world around us.

Humanity –  We respect all forms of life. We continuously make constructive interventions to improve the quality of life through our resources and time.

Cultivating talent – We help any individual fulfill their talent and acquire the necessary skills to help create a sustainable future.

Perseverance –  We tirelessly pursue our purpose through innovation and imagination.

From our travels around the world, we have identified three fundamental needs to protect the human condition: Food, Water and Shelter. To these, we add Education, Work and Energy as fundamental elements to enhance the human condition.

These six needs form part of our ViaTalenta Compass. The Compass drives our investment strategy and underpins all the collaborations and engagements we do.

ViaTalenta Holdings consists of three main operating hubs:

• ViaTalenta: our Incubator and innovation hub
• ViaTalenta Investments: our portfolio management hub and home to our global operating units, Turtle Labs, Academy and our other entities
• Grace Foundation: home to our philanthropic and humanitarian engagements.

We strive to deliver exceptional risk-adjusted market returns through investments theses focused on circular, systemic and non-exit driven strategies and engagements in value creation.

We apply our principle of “humanitarian investments” in our seven investment portfolios: Energy & Environment; Health Care & Wellness; Education; ImpactArt; Media & Entertainment, Technology & Innovation, and Defence & Security. Our portfolios are underpinned by technology and structure to foster regenerative business models.

All our portfolio entities are supported in their development and collaborations, and have access to the Holding’s resources, networks, R&D and experts if and when needed to achieve their potential.

We invest in entities that not only fit our values and purpose, but can deliver social, environmental, humanitarian and financial returns. Within the Investment spectrum, we focus primarily on sustainable and theme-based opportunities across all asset classes and venture philanthropy as a way to support the growth of new initiatives.

At ViaTalenta Holdings, we engage with many different people, institutions and organisations. To provide insights on the work we do, we have asked our teams and collaborators to provide their views on working with the Holding and its entities. These interviews will be published in our 2018-2020 Sustainability &    Engagement Report.