The Circle

Where families build together

A private community of families, entrepreneurs and thought leaders who choose to face the future alongside people they genuinely trust.

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Manifesto

Who we are

The Circle is a private community that brings together up to forty high-net-worth families, successful entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who share something essential: the desire to face the future alongside people they genuinely trust.

What unites its members is not a single industry or geography, but a shared sensibility: a combination of values, intellectual curiosity, and the conviction that the most meaningful opportunities emerge when people of substance think and build together.

Joining The Circle is not a transaction. It is an invitation extended based on character, alignment of values, and a genuine willingness to contribute to a community where every voice matters.

Why we exist

Families today are navigating questions of increased importance: how to manage the impact of new technologies, how to prepare for the next generation, how to preserve what matters while embracing change. These are not challenges that can be meaningfully addressed in isolation.

And yet, the spaces where families can share these questions openly and without reservation are remarkably rare. Not because the need does not exist, but because this level of openness requires something that most professional environments cannot provide: trust.

Real trust, built over time, through sustained and intimate interaction among individuals who recognize something of themselves in one another.

This is what The Circle is designed to cultivate. We build trust first. From that trust emerges the transparency that makes genuine collaboration not only possible, but natural.

How we work

The Circle creates value through three interconnected dimensions, each reinforcing the others.

Curated intelligence

We bring together world-class thinkers and practitioners, experts in technology, investment, governance, and innovation, selected for the relevance and depth of their perspectives. Their role is not to provide answers, but to open new horizons: to challenge assumptions, and spark conversations that would not emerge elsewhere. They are catalysts. The true value lies in what our members choose to build from these insights.

Designed intimacy

The Circle is intentionally limited to no more than forty members. This is a deliberate choice: trust of the kind we seek cannot develop in a crowd.

Through immersive gatherings, shared meals, informal exchanges, and the continuity of meeting over time, something rare takes shape: relationships deep enough for members to speak openly about what truly matters.

This quality of connection is, by its nature, impossible to scale. Nor is there any desire to do so.

Organic collaboration

When families come to know and trust one another at this level, something remarkable happens: collaboration emerges naturally.

Shared investments, complementary capabilities, and common solutions to shared challenges arise, not because they are engineered, but because the conditions allow them to.

The Circle does not manufacture these collaborations. It nurtures the environment from which they arise. This is precisely its role: without The Circle, this community would not exist, and without this community, these opportunities for collaboration would simply never come to be.

What makes it work

A community like The Circle draws its strength from the people who make it what it is. What each family brings, its experience, its perspective, and its willingness to listen as much as to share, is what gives the whole its meaning.

This is not something that can be mandated, nor does The Circle seek to do so. Instead, it creates the right conditions, the right people, the right setting, the right conversations, that allow its members to do the rest. Over time, as we have seen, families begin to share not only ideas but capabilities, not only questions but answers.

The Circle nurtures this process with care. It does not rush it. The families who find their way here understand intuitively that the more they invest in themselves, the richer the community becomes for everyone.

The ecosystem

At its center sits The Circle. Around it, an ecosystem grows, shaped by the families themselves. Each member brings capabilities, networks, and knowledge that, over time and with trust, become a resource available to the wider community.

As this ecosystem matures, it naturally expands to include shared initiatives, knowledge platforms, and new forms of collaboration. The Circle is the hub that makes this possible. The families are the ecosystem that brings it to life.

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Publisher

The Circle [legal form to be completed]
Rue du Rhône 65, 1211 Genève 3, Switzerland
Commercial register / UID: [CHE-000.000.000]
Authorised representative: [name and role]
Contact: [contact@thecircle-group.ch]

Purpose of this website

This website presents The Circle and its manifesto. Membership is by personal invitation only. Nothing on this website constitutes an offer, a solicitation, or investment, legal or tax advice.

Liability

The content is prepared with care, but no warranty is given as to its accuracy, completeness or timeliness. To the extent permitted by law, The Circle accepts no liability for damage arising from the use of this website or from its temporary unavailability.

External links

Where this website links to third-party sites, their operators alone are responsible for the content.

Intellectual property

Texts, the name and the logo of The Circle, and the design of this website are protected. Any reproduction or use requires prior written consent.

Members’ area

Access to the members’ area is personal and may not be shared. The documents and discussions made available there are confidential and intended for members only; they may not be forwarded or published.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

Swiss law applies. The place of jurisdiction is Geneva, subject to mandatory provisions of law.

Last updated: September 2026

Privacy policy

This policy explains how The Circle handles personal data, in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Controller

The Circle [legal form], Rue du Rhône 65, 1211 Genève 3, Switzerland. Contact for data protection matters: [privacy@thecircle-group.ch].

2. Data we process

3. Purposes and legal bases

We use these data to reply to your request (your consent), to provide the members’ area (performance of the membership relationship), and to keep the service secure and prevent misuse (legitimate interest). We do not carry out profiling or automated decision-making, and we do not sell personal data.

4. Archive assistant (AI)

Documents are stored on our own server. When a member asks a question, the question and a small number of relevant excerpts are transmitted to a technical provider solely to generate the answer. They are not used to train models. Questions may also be asked by voice: the recording is transmitted to the same provider solely to be turned into text, and is not stored.

5. Recipients and location of data

The website and its database are hosted in Germany (EU). The provider of computing capacity for the assistant OVHcloud (France) acts as our processor; where data are processed outside Switzerland or the EEA, appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses apply. Data are otherwise disclosed only where the law requires it.

6. Cookies

We use only strictly necessary cookies and local storage: your language choice, the acknowledgement of this notice and, for members, the sign-in session. No analytics, advertising cookies, third-party fonts or trackers are used.

7. Retention

Contact requests are kept for [12 months] after the last exchange; server and activity logs for [12 months]; account data for the duration of membership and then deleted, unless the law requires longer retention.

8. Your rights

You may request access to your data, their rectification or erasure, the restriction of processing, data portability, and you may object to processing or withdraw your consent at any time by writing to the address above. You may also lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) or, where the GDPR applies, with the competent authority in your country.

9. Security

Connections are encrypted, access to the members’ area is by personal invitation, passwords are stored only in hashed form, and access to documents is logged.

10. Changes

We may update this policy. The current version is the one published here.

Last updated: September 2026