One family.
Four ledgers.
A single architecture.

Four decades of creating wealth across Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Australia — rooted in education, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, and extended into real estate and hospitality. The Wealthing Group is the umbrella under which that work is organized: investing, teaching, and giving, run with the same discipline and reporting back to one household.

4
Decades, four continents
18
Companies founded
100+
Early-stage investments
3
Pillars: education, investment, care
The Mandate

Most family offices exist to preserve capital and transfer it quietly to the next generation. Ours exists to grow it. We put our own capital to work alongside every venture, every founder, and every cause the Group backs — compounding it, not sealing it away.

Alicia Castillo Holley with her children on a bench
Where It Started

Diamante, Mexico

A family vacation. A conversation. A ledger.

The Wealthing Group wasn't planned in a boardroom. Four decades of creating wealth across Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Australia — built by our founder, Dr. Alicia Castillo Holley — became a conversation after dinner on a family vacation in Diamante, Mexico. That night, we talked about organizing part of our individual interests into a family office: the Wealthing Group. Each member got to write the values we would hold the family to — no compromise, full inclusion. The youngest ones wrote their own two: chocolate, and dancing. Both are still in the ledger.

Action · Adventure · Authenticity · Caring · Curiosity · Diversity · Family · Gratitude · Growth · Health · Honor · Joy · Kindness · Love · Non-Maleficence · Passion · Patience · Peace · Quality of Life & Wellness · Resilience · Respect · Romance

Hand-lettered wooden luggage tags, each carrying one family value
Governing Philosophy

The Wealthing Framework

Process over luck. Non-consensus over comfort. Infrastructure over applications.

Every decision in the Wealthing Group — a capital commitment, a curriculum, a grant — is read against the same two questions. Is this creating a market that did not exist, or improving one that already does? And is it building the roots that hold a family steady, or the wings that let it extend?

Neither answer is right on its own. The framework exists to make the trade-off visible before it is made, so the family's capital, time, and attention move on purpose rather than on momentum.

Investment Thesis
Austrian — Improvement Schumpeterian — Creation
Family Orientation
Roots — Stability Wings — Expansion
The Directory

The Ledger

Five entries. Each one carries the family name into a different discipline.
01
Founder Alicia Castillo Holley, PhD Eng. Agriculture & MSci, Seed Science & Biotechnology, Universidad Central de Venezuela — MBA, Babson College — PhD, University of Western Australia
The investor behind the ledger. Eighteen companies founded, Chile's first seed capital fund — Capital Semilla, 1999 — and a real estate and hospitality portfolio. Author, and host of The Wealthing Podcast.
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02
Investment Mechanism Wealthing VC Club Est. 2020 Palo Alto, CA — co-founded with Daniel Chapellin Castillo
A multiclass venture capital group led by the Wealthing family office, giving accredited investors and family offices curated access to hard-tech and deep-tech deals — space, nuclear, semiconductors, cybersecurity, fintech, life sciences, and more. 80+ portfolio companies, 13 exits to date.
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03
Education Arm Wealthing Institute Est. 2013 Houston, Texas
Training for founders, scientists, and executives on creating wealth consciously and meaningfully — where the person, the organization, and the economy prosper together.
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04
Care Pillar Box of Life Est. 2018 501(c)(3), State of Texas — co-founded with Sara Perry
Getting food, medicine, and basic supplies directly into the hands of Venezuelans left without access to them — non-perishables, toiletries, and medications, sent box by box, family by family.
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05
Real Estate & Hospitality Arm Wealthing Trust Est. 2015 California, Texas, Queensland
The Group's real estate and hospitality holdings, held and managed directly by the family alongside the venture portfolio — including A3 Natomas (co-founder) and Monterey Garage I and II (collector car garages — LP).
Family-held
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