ADELINE

ARTS

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SCIENCE

Adeline is an investment fund for creative progress in science and the arts

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We believe that the world's greatest challenges will only be solved through cultural and technological innovation. Our portfolio is a curated selection of ventures that redefine boundaries - from the nuanced storytelling of Asian cinema to the frontier of AI and global health solutions. At Adeline, we aim to be more than investors: our vision is a future where art enriches science, and science elevates art.
"The clashing point of two subjects, two disciplines, two cultures - of two galaxies... In the history of mental activity that has been where some of the best breakthroughs came. The chances are there now."
C. P. Snow
"Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life"
M.C. Escher
"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing."
Mae Jemison
"To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction."
Nawal El Saadawi
"Art is how we decorate space; science is how we decorate time"
Michio Kaku
"Science is the key to unlocking the doors of artistic expression"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist... The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians... People bring these things together a lot."
Steve Jobs
"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well."
Albert Einstein

Investments & Projects

Arts
Science
Scholarships

Momo Film Co

Bringing stories of Asia to a global audience

Singapore Art Book Fair

The Singapore Art Book Fair (SGABF) is an annual multi-day event celebrating contemporary art books and zines.

Giraffe Pictures

Giraffe Pictures is a boutique film company for the best of Asian Cinema, focusing on cinematic creativity and vision.

Maven Screen Media

Maven is dedicated to producing multi-platform film and television content and increasing representation for women in front of and behind the camera.

Singapore International Film Festival

The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is the largest and longest-running film event in Singapore.

Global Health Disrupted

Global Health Disrupted collaborates with art and health organizations, and stakeholders, from all over the world. We strive to bridge the gap between art and science in a sustainable and meaningful way

Unexia

Unexia is building a decentralized platform to meet the health challenges of the 21st Century

Credal.ai

Credal makes AI safe and useful at the enterprise.

Kaya VC

From studio projects and pre-seed through Series A and follow-ons, our mission is to support exceptional founding teams that shape their industries and create enduring change in a sustainable way.

No Label Ventures

No Label Ventures (NLV) is a European early-stage VC fund built to capitalise on the over-performance of immigrant founders.

Intelligent AI

Global location intelligence that helps you identify, measure, predict and mitigate property risks in real-time.

CloudNC

Applying advanced software to reinvent precision manufacturing - for everyone

QVentures

A Venture Capital firm providing direct investment opportunities and fund management.

Here We Flo

Shamelessly natural care for life’s messiest moments

Topi

Hardware, made simple. topi provides the underlying technology for the B2B subscription economy.

United Health Futures

UHF is a global platform responding to complex planetary health and societal challenges. We are a world-class team of development, economics, and health experts with extensive scientific, policy, strategy, technology and implementation expertise.

TrustElevate

Verifies All Identities, All Ages, All Parents, on Any Service - One Solution.

CSIRO

We are among the world's largest and most diverse scientific research organisations, dedicated to addressing Australia's most pressing challenges.

University College London

Stema/Belmont post-doctoral research programme

Stema

Stema is a disruptive research group pioneering new approaches to community health and sustainable development

Queensland University of Technology

Adeline scholarship for women in mathmatics; Adeline travel grant

Meet the team

Des Tan

Founder & Director
Des Tan studied mathematical biology at Oxford where he worked on population modelling and infectious-disease modelling of malaria, bubonic plague and other zoonoses. Des was an advisor and tech lead for the Prime Minister's Strategy Division in Australia, where they analysed census and other population data to build strategic frameworks, economic models and decision-support tools. Des’s current work involves building data models, analytics platforms and web-based tools for government, the UN, FTSE 100 companies and digital health services. His main interest is in healthcare and health technology and, in general, genuine human needs that are overlooked and underserved by current business and technology.

Emma Ogden

Operations Manager
Emma Ogden, BA studied Human Sciences at Oxford University, where she specialised in Health and Disease and Biological Conservation. She participated in the Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Project, where she was awarded the Kathleen Hemphill Grant for Natural Observational Research for her project examining the feeding patterns of vervets.

Theo Brainin

Growth & Strategy Consultant
Theo helps founders to optimise growth funnels across product, marketing and sales: from the basics of validating a product vision and defining jobs-to-be-done; to pirate metrics and growth experiments; to traditional digital marketing disciplines like paid media, content and email marketing. He enjoys helping teams to succeed - from setting meaningful OKRs + KPIs, to implementing the right tools for productivity and collaboration. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, achieving a first class degree. He also holds an MPhil in Political Theory and a Graduate Diploma in Law. He worked for BBC Newsnight before joining tech publishing startup StoryTerrace as Marketing Director, contributing to a period of rapid growth, leading a successful crowdfunding campaign and appearing in the company's successful pitch on BBC Dragons' Den.