The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism

3Impact DNA

The most important part of the ecosystem is when somebody down the line of a company, let's say a field officer or customer officer, interacts with the customer; that's where the magic happens.

—Sandeep Farias, Elevar Equity

Against significant odds, Elevar Equity has invested $94 million of capital under management in scalable businesses for underserved customers in bottom of the pyramid (BoP) markets, delivering a market rate of return of 21.4 percent.

Elevar's efforts to connect underserved communities to global networks have resulted in equity investments in sixteen early- to growth-stage companies, serving close to eleven million households in Asia and Latin America, through such services as microcredit, savings accounts, ...