Elevar Scribbles

Good business decisions start with good, clear thinking. We believe that this clarity enables us to better embrace the complexities of doing business at the margins. As we react to market realities, and adapt to entrepreneurial visions and plans, we like to be intellectual protagonists ourselves. These scribbles are an attempt at expressing our views on the trends and markets we engage with.

Goodbye to 21/8, Craig Park Layout
Team Elevar
Customer Sentiment vs Investor Sentiment
Jyotsna Krishnan
Elevar Deal Pipeline – Less is More
Jyotsna Krishnan
Impact Report 2022
Team Elevar
A Different Kind of Swag – Remembering Amit Bordia (1976-2023)
Jyotsna Krishnan
CureBay – Why We Invested
Team Elevar
Justo – A Brand that Empowers Consumers, Suppliers and the Planet
Johanna Posada
Bees Saal Baad (Twenty Years Later)
Vipul Rawal
Cyclicality of Markets and the Timelessness of Customer Centricity
Sandeep Farias
Jyotsna Krishnan
Vipul Rawal
15 Years of Elevar – Impact Report 2021
Team Elevar
Investing at Elevar is a Team Sport
The Elevar Partnership
The Elevar Investment Philosophy
Jyotsna Krishnan
Sandeep Farias
A Deep Dive into the Elevar Method and its Applications (Podcast by DWDG)
Sandeep Farias
Direct Collection Model (DCM) – Bridging the Digital Divide for the Underbanked
Srinivas Kantheti
Impact Report 2020
Team Elevar
An Unconventional Call to Back the Local Educator – LEAD’s Ed-tech Journey
Jyotsna Krishnan
Sandeep Farias
Samunnati and Kamatan – Joining Forces to make Markets work for Smallholder Farmers
Jyotsna Krishnan
Sandeep Farias
Delighting the Underserved Customer with CTPA
Jyotsna Krishnan
The White Space for Brands Serving Low Income Segments
Jyotsna Krishnan
Branding a Reluctant Dragon
Celebrating the Contrarian @Elevar
Team Elevar
Bridging Growth During Crisis and Beyond: Nuvemshop
Johanna Posada
Matias Lanus
Eyes on the Time Horizon
Jyotsna Krishnan
Vipul Rawal
Rethinking Employee Touch Points Post Covid‑19
Ajit Abraham
Johanna Posada
Maintaining a Customer Focus in Collections
Jyotsna Krishnan
Johanna Posada
Gathering Customer Level Insights
Jyotsna Krishnan
Matias Lanus
Go Big AND Go @Home: LEAD School

Sandeep Farias
Building the Fundraise Narrative During a Crisis
Amie Patel
Vipul Rawal
Navigating the Covid Crisis
Team Elevar
A Shared Purpose: Scaling Enterprises in Latin America

Alma Gutierrez
Lead
Sandeep Farias
Moving Beyond BCP Frameworks

Doubling Down on Core Values
Team Elevar
Reimagining the CFO
Jyotsna Krishnan
Walk the Talk: Educating for the Future of Work
Shobha Venkataraman
Remembering Danielle Wainer (1983‑2019)
Johanna Posada
Driving Impact in Latin America (Podcast by Nathan Lustig)
Johanna Posada
Growing Opportunities for Impact at Scale (Podcast)
Sandeep Farias
ज़िन्दा जियो – Live Alive
Sumeet Mehta
Remembering Ajay Oak
Sandeep Farias
Mapping to the SDGs
Sandeep Farias
Ayesha Gopal
Driving Massive Scale
Team Elevar
A Star that Blazed Across our Skies
Sandeep Farias
Admiration for the Customer at Elevar
Sandeep Farias
Jyotsna Krishnan
La Tecnología, Eje de Políticas de Inclusión Financiera
Alejandro Cosentino
Let’s Elevar: In conversation with Nandan Nilekani
Sandeep Farias
Jyotsna Krishnan
Following the customer: It’s counter-intuitive
The Elevar Partnership
Pioneering a commercial approach to impact investing
The Elevar Partnership
Thoughts on work-life balance at Elevar
Jyotsna Krishnan
Jottings from an entrepreneurial journey
Ramakrishna Nishtala
Geography is artificial in our world
Maya Chorengel
LEAD – on a mission to revolutionize schools in India by democratizing excellent education
Team Elevar
Samunnati – aspiring to define the next generation of Indian agriculture
Team Elevar
Nuvemshop – accelerating the digital transformation of MSMEs in Latin America
Team Elevar