Digital infrastructure for climate finance

The Pacific Islands are on the front line of climate change. We deserve frontline access to climate finance.

45%

of project funding reaches communities directly. Admin and compliance absorbs the rest.

$1.9T

 in global climate finance exists, but the Pacific doesn’t receive its fair share.

0.2%

of global climate finance reaches the Pacific — one of the world's most climate-vulnerable regions.

Sources: OECD Climate Finance Report 2023 · Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative · GCF Secretariat data

WHAT WERE SOLVING

The system wasn't built 
for us.

The money is out there. Over a trillion dollars pledged by the Green Climate Fund, ADB, bilateral governments — ready to flow. But to access it, Pacific organisations face a gauntlet. Duplicate compliance checks. Manual verification. Fragmented reporting. Siloed data. Every funder has its own requirements.

Duplicate compliance, 
every time

Every application starts from scratch. Average approval time: four years. Average cost to comply: more than half the project value. Why? The Pacific’s already on the front line of climate change, bears a burden it never created.

No shared infrastructure

Funders and implementers operate in silos. There's no single thread connecting money to measurable impact. Only 45 cents in every dollar reaches real action.

HOW VAI WORKS

Vai is the tech solution for climate finance

A pacific built system for end to end, work flow from readiness, concept and approval through to dispersement and reporting.

Track every dollar

Live visibility of fund flows from funder to community.

Automate compliance

Organisations verify once. Vai maps credentials to every funder’s requirements automatically.

Standardise eligibility

One compliance profile works across GCF, GEF, bilateral funders and more.

Vai does not hold or move funds. It provides the workflow, controls, and audit trail around them.

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OUR TEAM

Built by people who know the Pacific

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Karena Lyons

20+ years Pacific diplomat and climate finance leader, inc. New Zealand Ambassador

Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder

Jake Hamstra

20+ years Asia-Pacific editor and senior analyst at The Economist and MFAT

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder

Jarod Baker

20+ years financial risk analyst at KPMG and the FBI