About
Alicia Castillo Holley is an investor, speaker, and author. Her career started as a young scientist and professor on Agronomy (she published her first authored paper at 16) before leading the product development department for a Bayer-Shell joint venture (Plantagro) and eventually turning into an entrepreneur and angel investor. As an entrepreneur, she has started twenty companies -successfully exiting from five of them- and five non-for-profit. Upon moving to Silicon Valley, she has invested in over 30 companies, primarily through Sand Hill Angels and Wealthing VC Club, and is an LP in 8 funds. She played a pivotal role in the Development for the Entrepreneurial Curriculum and the Venture Capital Industry in Chile, where she lived between 1996 and 2002. She has lived in Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, Chile, Venezuela, and the US, and have visited over 100 countries, Philanthropically, she supports organizations that foster education, happiness, and domestic harmony. In 2018 she and
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at Wealthing VC Club are tracked.
- • 59 investors hold the CEO, Founder role in VCSift. Alicia Castillo Holley is one of them.
- • 931 investors are based in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Location
- Palo Alto, US
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