You are about to make an investment. It is easy to just put money on the line and hope for the best. However, if you want good and sustainable returns on your capital, it is better to seek professional assistance to appraise your investment projects.

Scholl-Heuter consulting gives you that professional expertise. When you need to make strategic decisions about investment projects, particularly in the technology space, Scholl-Heuter is the name to call on.

Scholl-Heuter is a private investment consultancy company founded in Vienna in 2001. Most of our clients are members of the venture capital community interested in making technology investments in emerging and frontier markets.

Our fields of expertise include business development and planning (helping to develop and sustain profitable growth), telecommunications (providing business support to telecom companies, players in the e-commerce and internet industry as well as helping in equipment procurement) and Academic - Commercial fusion and synergy (we help academic institutions and companies to co-operate in the commercialization of research and innovation). We also render consulting services covering investment banking and securities, corporate and financial strategy as well as global strategy.

Currently, we have on-going projects in African countries such as Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia and Morocco. Also, we have major projects in Central America (Bolivia and Nicaragua) and the Caribbean (Haiti) as well as the Middle East (Egypt).

When Celtel needed to expand their GSM 900/1800 project in Southern Nigeria, they called on the Scholl-Heuter team to provide consultancy services. Other projects in Africa that Scholl-Heuter has been involved in include the development of a data centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This project helped increase internet penetration in Burkina Faso. Also, we provided business consulting support in the establishment of a plastic packaging plant in Angola. We have experience in supporting telecommunications projects in Africa as we provided business planning support to MTC in Namibia when it wanted to launch its 3G network.

Scholl-Heuter has also been involved in several energy projects. We helped in the business development aspects of an electricity and carbon credit generating project in Cobija, Bolivia. In Nicaragua, we were tasked with providing a full financial business plan and investment appraisal for the geothermal energy project in San Jacinto-Tizante.

Scholl-Heuter is not limited to technology or manufacturing projects. Our business expertise was called upon by the Haitian government to help in the competitive positioning of Haitian coffee to help increase exports. We have also been involved in education/research collaboration projects in Egypt and Kenya.

Our experts, drawn from a team of in-house researchers and highly skilled freelance consultants, are able to provide bespoke solutions and strategies to our clients. We develop plans and strategies that fit in with our client's business goals.

Although we provide problem-solving support that may be different depending on each client's circumstances, we have a distinctive approach focusing on creating a big picture view, generating and mining data so as to provide a fact based solution to challenges, a multi-cultural approach and a respect for confidentiality in business dealings.