Recent Clients

Vista Ventures, LLC is pleased to have served the needs of clients such as those described below.

CARE – Vista Ventures performed an evaluation of a number of CARE’s microfinance institutions in Latin America, the Philippines and Africa during the first half of 2010.  That work resulted in a series of specific recommendations for the reorganization of CARE’s microfinance assets to make better use of its financial and management resources.  Vista Ventures was subsequently engaged to implement a number of those recommendations.

Due diligence – For a group of socially motivated investors, Vista Ventures has recently completed due diligence on an early stage company that aggregates and validates carbon credits earned by poor households in Asia and Africa and sells those credits on the voluntary carbon market.  We are pleased to have served the needs of both investors and this company that offers the potential for significant benefit both to the poor families who are its suppliers and to the environment.

One Degree Solar – Vista Ventures provides advice and consulting services to this early stage solar lighting company that seeks to provide alternative sources of lighting to those households in Africa and Asia that rely on kerosene or biomass for lighting due to their lack of access to the electricity grid.  Almost 65% of households in sub Saharan Africa do not have access to the electricity grid.  Vista Ventures® assistance focuses on business planning and capital raising as well as appropriate distribution channels in sub Saharan Africa.

KixiCredito, SA – Vista Ventures, LLC has recently completed a business plan review for the largest microfinance institution in Angola.  We are currently reviewing its asset-liability management practices and will make recommendations to improve the efficiency of the operations while safeguarding its assets.

ACDI-VOCA – We have been pleased to serve the financial services division of ACDI-VOCA, one of the leading non-profit providers of economic development assistance.  Vista Ventures made recommendations for the consolidation of the holdings of three of its majority-owned financial institutions in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan into a single entity that will facilitate further investment and management of these institutions.

US Department of Energy – We have previously provided consulting and technical assistance to the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy division of the US Department of Energy.  Over a period of about five years, Vista Ventures® advice and assistance helped about sixty early stage companies with the commercialization of their energy ventures.  That work generally included business planning, marketing strategy and capital attraction.

For more information, please contact us at Ideas@VistaVentures.com.

Vista Ventures, LLC is an independent consulting firm and is not affiliated with a broker-dealer as defined under US securities laws.