Elevar Equity
www.elevarequity.comElevar invests early growth capital in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of inclusivity, affordability, and massive scale, specifically targeting underserved customers and Entrepreneurial Households in emerging markets, particularly India and Latin America. Their mission is to fuel economic resilience and vibrancy of underserved communities while achieving benchmark market performance.
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Elevar practices ‘human centered capital’ investing, which fundamentally centers the end customer as core to investment decisions. They pioneer a commercial approach to impact investing where impact and business performance are aligned and correlated—not trade-offs. Their philosophy emphasizes that ‘customer centricity needs to be central to the nature of the enterprise, and an uncompromising focus on this can result in all stakeholders benefiting.’ They maintain deep understanding of underserved customers through extensive field immersion, using ground-truth insights to inform thesis, strategy, and investment decisions.
What Sets Them Apart
- Customer-centric investing: View portfolio company customers as their own customers, maintaining beat-of-market understanding through regular field visits
- Alignment of impact and returns: Only invest in businesses where impact and commercial performance are aligned, not competing objectives
- Deep market immersion: Maintain 'razor sharp focus' by understanding customer aspirations, priorities, challenges, incomes, spends, and borrowings rather than sector expertise
- Long-standing partnership: 'Average time the current partnership has worked together is close to 12 years, a rare long-standing entrepreneurial partnership'
- Early-stage focus: Usually first institutional capital in companies; have invested in raw startups and seed stage, averaging ~3 investments per year
- Positive distribution economics: Back companies founded on growth based on positive distribution economics and phygital distribution models
- EPIC World platform: Evolved beyond standalone fund to build comprehensive platform bringing together capital curation and insights around Entrepreneurial Households
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Investment Team
16 Partners at Elevar Equity
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