Elevar Equity

Elevar Equity, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth equity investments. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional offices in Bangalore, India, and other locations, the firm targets growth-oriented entrepreneurs developing microfinance institutions and financial services, as well as companies offering essential products and services in education, agriculture, healthcare, and housing, particularly to underserved communities in emerging markets. Elevar Equity emphasizes investments in the fintech sector, education, employability, market linkages, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The firm primarily invests in emerging economies across South East Asia and Latin America, with particular attention to countries such as India, Peru, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Elevar Equity adopts a long-term investment approach and is open to taking both minority and majority stakes in its portfolio companies.

Raghunandan Bokare

Senior Investment Associate

Sandeep Farias

Founder and Managing Partner

Shikha Gupta

Investment Director

Jyotsna Krishnan

Managing Partner

Amie Patel

Partner and CEO

Debjyoti Paul

Managing Director

Johanna Posada

Founder and Managing Partner

Ruchi Ramann

Venture Partner

Vipul Rawal

Partner and Chief Investment Officer

Shobha Venkataraman

Partner

Jyotsna Krishnan

Managing Partner

Poornima Dore Ph.D

Venture Partner

Past deals in Credits and Lending

Niro

Series B in 2024
Niro is a fintech startup focused on embedding personal credit products into prominent consumer internet platforms. By providing a financial platform that includes an application programming interface, Niro allows these platforms to integrate tailored credit offerings that enhance user engagement and generate substantial revenue. The company aims to transform the consumer lending landscape in India, targeting the 624 million internet users by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit solutions. Through its innovative approach, Niro seeks to empower internet brands to offer personalized credit products, fostering growth and accessibility in the financial services sector.

Niro

Series A in 2023
Niro is a fintech startup focused on embedding personal credit products into prominent consumer internet platforms. By providing a financial platform that includes an application programming interface, Niro allows these platforms to integrate tailored credit offerings that enhance user engagement and generate substantial revenue. The company aims to transform the consumer lending landscape in India, targeting the 624 million internet users by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit solutions. Through its innovative approach, Niro seeks to empower internet brands to offer personalized credit products, fostering growth and accessibility in the financial services sector.

Sarvagram

Series C in 2022
SarvaGram Fincare Private Limited is a fintech startup based in Mumbai, India, that provides financial services to individuals and small enterprises in rural and semi-urban areas. Founded in 2018, the company offers a range of loan products, including gold loans, consumer durable loans, farm loans, and business loans. By leveraging a data science-enabled platform, SarvaGram assesses the financial potential of rural households, treating them as cohesive economic units. The company's approach incorporates a comprehensive understanding of household cash flows, balance sheets, and various income streams. In addition to credit services, SarvaGram facilitates access to productivity-enhancing tools and risk management solutions, thereby supporting livelihood upgrades for underserved communities and enabling small to medium businesses to secure necessary financing.

Indifi Technologies

Series D in 2021
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates a digital lending platform that connects lenders with small businesses seeking loans. Established in 2015 and based in Gurugram, India, the company focuses on assisting businesses that often struggle to secure financing from traditional institutions due to a lack of collateral or financial data. Indifi utilizes technology to gather and analyze data from various sources, assessing the creditworthiness and performance of potential borrowers within their respective industries. This approach allows Indifi to identify low-risk, high-potential businesses, thereby expanding access to both short- and long-term funding options. Additionally, the company provides lifecycle support services for lenders, including marketing, customer relationship management, data aggregation, and loan monitoring, while facilitating communication between borrowers and multiple lenders to enhance the likelihood of loan approval.

Niro

Seed Round in 2021
Niro is a fintech startup focused on embedding personal credit products into prominent consumer internet platforms. By providing a financial platform that includes an application programming interface, Niro allows these platforms to integrate tailored credit offerings that enhance user engagement and generate substantial revenue. The company aims to transform the consumer lending landscape in India, targeting the 624 million internet users by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit solutions. Through its innovative approach, Niro seeks to empower internet brands to offer personalized credit products, fostering growth and accessibility in the financial services sector.

Sarvagram

Series B in 2021
SarvaGram Fincare Private Limited is a fintech startup based in Mumbai, India, that provides financial services to individuals and small enterprises in rural and semi-urban areas. Founded in 2018, the company offers a range of loan products, including gold loans, consumer durable loans, farm loans, and business loans. By leveraging a data science-enabled platform, SarvaGram assesses the financial potential of rural households, treating them as cohesive economic units. The company's approach incorporates a comprehensive understanding of household cash flows, balance sheets, and various income streams. In addition to credit services, SarvaGram facilitates access to productivity-enhancing tools and risk management solutions, thereby supporting livelihood upgrades for underserved communities and enabling small to medium businesses to secure necessary financing.

CreditMantri

Venture Round in 2020
CreditMantri is a digital credit services management platform based in India that focuses on helping consumers understand and improve their credit health. The platform creates an individual credit profile by integrating data from institutional sources, such as credit history and scores from credit bureaus, as well as alternate data sources. Based on this comprehensive credit profile, CreditMantri guides users towards the most suitable financial products, including loans and credit cards, and offers credit improvement services. Additionally, CreditMantri provides lender-specific services, including a marketplace for credit products, solutions for lenders to facilitate instant credit decisions for new users, and verification services. The company collaborates with over 55 lenders to enhance the credit experience for both consumers and financial institutions.

Sarvagram

Seed Round in 2020
SarvaGram Fincare Private Limited is a fintech startup based in Mumbai, India, that provides financial services to individuals and small enterprises in rural and semi-urban areas. Founded in 2018, the company offers a range of loan products, including gold loans, consumer durable loans, farm loans, and business loans. By leveraging a data science-enabled platform, SarvaGram assesses the financial potential of rural households, treating them as cohesive economic units. The company's approach incorporates a comprehensive understanding of household cash flows, balance sheets, and various income streams. In addition to credit services, SarvaGram facilitates access to productivity-enhancing tools and risk management solutions, thereby supporting livelihood upgrades for underserved communities and enabling small to medium businesses to secure necessary financing.

Indifi Technologies

Series C in 2019
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates a digital lending platform that connects lenders with small businesses seeking loans. Established in 2015 and based in Gurugram, India, the company focuses on assisting businesses that often struggle to secure financing from traditional institutions due to a lack of collateral or financial data. Indifi utilizes technology to gather and analyze data from various sources, assessing the creditworthiness and performance of potential borrowers within their respective industries. This approach allows Indifi to identify low-risk, high-potential businesses, thereby expanding access to both short- and long-term funding options. Additionally, the company provides lifecycle support services for lenders, including marketing, customer relationship management, data aggregation, and loan monitoring, while facilitating communication between borrowers and multiple lenders to enhance the likelihood of loan approval.

Varthana

Series C in 2018
Varthana is a financial services company focused on enhancing private education in India by providing tailored financial solutions to low-cost private schools. It partners with education entrepreneurs dedicated to improving access to high-quality education in low-income communities. Varthana offers both secured and unsecured loans designed for various projects, including infrastructure renovations, library and playground additions, laboratory upgrades, smart classroom technology, teacher training programs, and transportation services like school buses. Through its support, Varthana aims to empower private schools to better serve students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, thereby contributing to the overall improvement of educational facilities in the region.

CreditMantri

Series B in 2017
CreditMantri is a digital credit services management platform based in India that focuses on helping consumers understand and improve their credit health. The platform creates an individual credit profile by integrating data from institutional sources, such as credit history and scores from credit bureaus, as well as alternate data sources. Based on this comprehensive credit profile, CreditMantri guides users towards the most suitable financial products, including loans and credit cards, and offers credit improvement services. Additionally, CreditMantri provides lender-specific services, including a marketplace for credit products, solutions for lenders to facilitate instant credit decisions for new users, and verification services. The company collaborates with over 55 lenders to enhance the credit experience for both consumers and financial institutions.

Indifi Technologies

Series B in 2016
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates a digital lending platform that connects lenders with small businesses seeking loans. Established in 2015 and based in Gurugram, India, the company focuses on assisting businesses that often struggle to secure financing from traditional institutions due to a lack of collateral or financial data. Indifi utilizes technology to gather and analyze data from various sources, assessing the creditworthiness and performance of potential borrowers within their respective industries. This approach allows Indifi to identify low-risk, high-potential businesses, thereby expanding access to both short- and long-term funding options. Additionally, the company provides lifecycle support services for lenders, including marketing, customer relationship management, data aggregation, and loan monitoring, while facilitating communication between borrowers and multiple lenders to enhance the likelihood of loan approval.

Indifi Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates a digital lending platform that connects lenders with small businesses seeking loans. Established in 2015 and based in Gurugram, India, the company focuses on assisting businesses that often struggle to secure financing from traditional institutions due to a lack of collateral or financial data. Indifi utilizes technology to gather and analyze data from various sources, assessing the creditworthiness and performance of potential borrowers within their respective industries. This approach allows Indifi to identify low-risk, high-potential businesses, thereby expanding access to both short- and long-term funding options. Additionally, the company provides lifecycle support services for lenders, including marketing, customer relationship management, data aggregation, and loan monitoring, while facilitating communication between borrowers and multiple lenders to enhance the likelihood of loan approval.

Vistaar

Series D in 2015
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

CreditMantri

Series A in 2015
CreditMantri is a digital credit services management platform based in India that focuses on helping consumers understand and improve their credit health. The platform creates an individual credit profile by integrating data from institutional sources, such as credit history and scores from credit bureaus, as well as alternate data sources. Based on this comprehensive credit profile, CreditMantri guides users towards the most suitable financial products, including loans and credit cards, and offers credit improvement services. Additionally, CreditMantri provides lender-specific services, including a marketplace for credit products, solutions for lenders to facilitate instant credit decisions for new users, and verification services. The company collaborates with over 55 lenders to enhance the credit experience for both consumers and financial institutions.

Vistaar

Series C in 2014
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Vistaar

Series B in 2012
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Swadhaar FinServe

Venture Round in 2010
Swadhaar FinServe, based in Mumbai, is dedicated to providing financial services to economically vulnerable and underserved households and businesses in urban areas. As a pioneer in individual lending within the Indian context, the company focuses on delivering microcredit effectively, even in challenging urban environments. Swadhaar FinServe offers a range of services, including individual and business loans, insurance, and financial education, aimed at helping clients achieve financial security and fulfill their aspirations. With Mumbai housing one of the largest populations of urban poor, the company's success has the potential to impact millions and establish a scalable lending model for other major cities. Swadhaar FinServe operates as a for-profit entity associated with Swadhaar FinAccess, which is a non-profit organization.

Vistaar

Series A in 2010
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.
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