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The Institution

Built for 2222.

A company, a discipline, and an institution — designed to compound for generations.

Where we are

One system. Seven hubs.

    Abu DhabiGlobal headquarters, ADGM — where sovereign capital, government transformation, and hospitality converge.
    SeoulThe Northeast Asia platform — innovation, culture, and design; validated in-market, July 2026.
    SingaporeThe Southeast Asia institutional gateway — home of a flagship CIRCOLO House.
    MedellínThe Latin America hospitality and investment platform — home of Calma's flagship retreats.
    NairobiThe East Africa bridge — where the continent's builders meet global capital.
    IstanbulThe crossroads platform — Europe, the Gulf, and Central Asia at one table.
    TorontoThe North America listening post — research, universities, and the diaspora networks that connect everywhere else.

Each platform carries one flagship ritual, one flagship partner, and one flagship project. Expansion follows relationship density — never prestige.

The Outsider's Eye

The founder

Alvaro Daza, Founder & CEO of Circolo

Alvaro Daza

Founder & CEO

Alvaro Daza is Founder and Chief Executive of Circolo, a relationship architecture house. Relationship architecture is interdisciplinary: Circolo designs physical spaces, formats and products, runs its own invitation-only gatherings across the Gulf, East Asia, Latin America and East Africa, and builds relationship infrastructure for institutions through the Strategic Relationship Accelerator. Trained as an architect, he founded Circolo in 2021 and moved its headquarters to Abu Dhabi in 2023, where it is registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. His work spans eighty-four countries and more than one hundred thousand people, for governments, family offices, private wealth, universities, investment agencies, and groups in luxury, hospitality and technology. Author of four books. Based in Abu Dhabi. Circolo operates in Spanish, English, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Swahili in-house.

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What has already happened

The record.

We publish the standard, not the scene. What follows is what has run, and at what size.

    II:II

    Eleven seats

    Opened in Abu Dhabi in October 2025 and has run seventeen editions since, monthly, with editions in Seoul, Singapore, Dubai and Ajman. It continues monthly through 2026 and 2027.
    CIRCOLO House

    Five days · 1,111 people

    Ran in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Singapore in 2025. In 2026 it returns to Seoul in September, Singapore in October, and Abu Dhabi from late November. It runs a third year in 2027.
    Calma

    Eleven seats

    Opened in Bali in 2025. In 2026 it runs in Colombia and Bali. In 2027 it runs four seasons; locations are named once the sites are signed.
    TWENTYTWO

    Twenty-two seats

    Opens in August 2026 and runs monthly thereafter in Abu Dhabi, Seoul and Medellín, continuing through 2027.

17

editions of II:II since October 2025.

84

countries of work across five years.

100,000+

people in rooms we have built.

12,000+

people on the Circolo register.

Across seventeen editions, the thing guests named most often was not an introduction. It was being met without their title. Final locations and dates are released to members first.

Who advises us

The council.

Circolo's advisers are described by their standing, not their names. We do not publish who was in the room. That is the product.

    01A technology investor with luxury sector operating experience.
    02The managing director of a Gulf single family office.
    03A private banking director in the UAE.
    04A professor and entrepreneur in residence working in technology and communities.
    05A fifteen-year operator in digital assets.
    06A former chief executive in Emirati hospitality and culture.

Guests are ultra high net worth individuals, single family offices, royalty, and principals of industrial and creative groups. None of them are named here, and none of them are quoted.

The platform

Memoria.

Circolo runs on its own private platform, Memoria — the member app and system of record behind every room. It holds invitations and RSVPs, the composition of each table, what a room produced, and the relationships that continue afterwards. It is issued with membership or with a mandate; it is not sold, and there is no public download.

22 · 22

The two-hundred-year case — and exactly what would prove it wrong.

“We build relationships before transactions, institutions before companies, and legacies before careers.”

The declaration of Circolo

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