Global Outlook
We invest in start-up and early stage endeavours which have a global application and market potential.
Investing in people,
not products.[1]
[1]“Business is all about people, and people are most productive when they are empowered and truly enjoy what they are doing.”— Jaime Terauds
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01Welcome
What do we Invest in?
Projects which have a global application, inspire people, and create a better world.
Profit Focused
We build profit driven enterprises which are not purely focused on an investor exit.
A Diverse Portfolio
We strive to develop the underlying capital value of each venture whilst building sustainable long-term businesses.
We work with founders, inventors and entrepreneurs to help them build their dreams, to achieve their goals and to lead happy, purposeful, enriched lives.
Doha · 2017
02The record
33 years of building,
in one view.
Three chapters: the early Sydney startups and the move into Asia, the Transworld years out of the Isle of Man, and ilipa Ventures, the private investment holding entity of Jaime Terauds, serial entrepreneur.
The founder
Jaime Terauds
Since the age of 15, when he started his first enterprise teaching his classmates guitar, Jaime Terauds has been self-employed almost without interruption. Over 35 years he has founded more than sixteen ventures across three continents, taking the roles of Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Chairman, in industries running from IT and telecommunications to food and beverage, hospitality, agriculture and green tech.
ilipa Ventures is his private investment holding entity.
jaimeterauds.com →“I’ve travelled widely, lived abroad and enjoyed varying levels of success, along with an edifying number of business failures.”
Singapore · 2014
The flagship
Mentawai Bay
The Mentawai Bay Special Economic Zone aims to transform Siberut into a creatively and experientially enriching destination and residential community. It is built around advanced sustainable development and preservation, protecting the islands’ ecological and cultural heritage while supporting responsible economic growth.
It draws on everything the group has built before it: development and masterplanning, hospitality and F&B, the platforms that run behind them, and three decades of operating across Southeast Asia.
mentawai.one- 2,639 ha
- Special Economic Zone, Siberut Island
- West Sumatra
- Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
- SPV structure
- HoldCo entities, institutional and strategic capital
03The approach
Four Pillars.
You can’t always invest in the ‘next big thing’ and whilst we would all like to believe we have found the next Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or globally disruptive technology, the reality is these investment opportunities really only come along once in a life time, (if you are lucky!) So our approach is to build strong, stable, profit driven businesses and if they just happen to become the next big thing, well, that is a nice bonus.
04The screen
What we will not fund.
- 01Tobacco.
- 02The manufacture or distribution of weapons.
- 03Anything directly tied to fossil fuel exploitation.
- 04Anything that leads to major deforestation.
- 05Multi-level marketing.
- 06Cryptocurrency speculation with no legitimate use case.
- 07The Uber of. The Airbnb of. The me-too platform.
We invest our own capital in original projects. We do not manage public, corporate or institutional funds, and we are accountable only to stakeholders who share the way we invest.