Jyotsna Krishnan coined the concept of India's unseen middle—a 300-400 million person segment that traditional VCs ignore—and built both an investment thesis at Elevar Equity and a data platform at EPIC World specifically around serving entrepreneurial households in this segment. She uniquely combines her role as managing partner at Elevar with being CEO of EPIC World, using proprietary insights from mapping tens of millions of households to inform investment decisions and explicitly position these entrepreneurial households as her primary customer rather than optimizing solely for enterprise metrics.
About their Fund
Sectors
Fintech, Education, Health, Food & Ag, Insurtech
Rounds
Seed - Series A
Avg Check Size
$1M - $2.5M
Notable Investments
Elevar Equity builds its entire investment strategy around "Entrepreneurial Households" – low-income but economically active families with multiple income streams – studying their transactions and constraints in granular detail through deep field immersion rather than focusing on sectors or generic "base of the pyramid" approaches. The firm has invested in ~50 companies over 18-20 years, serving as the founding investor in about half and reaching 50-55 million+ households across India and Latin America, while pioneering a commercial approach to impact investing where impact and business performance are structurally aligned.
Notable Fund
Investments
No items found.
Is this information out of date? Let us know
Popular Investors
investor name
Active in
Rounds
Avg. Check
Links
Deeptech / Hardware
Robotics
Biotech
+
12
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $2M
Unknown
Defense
Deeptech / Hardware
Energy
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$100K - $5M
Unknown
Defense
Deeptech / Hardware
Energy
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$100K - $5M
Unknown
Biotech
Health
Deeptech / Hardware
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$250K - $2M
Unknown
Climate
Deeptech / Hardware
Materials
+
4
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $1.5M
Unknown
Deeptech / Hardware
Robotics
Biotech
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $2M
Unknown
Deeptech / Hardware
Robotics
Biotech
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
~$750K
Unknown
Fintech
Deeptech / Hardware
Devtools
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$250K-$1M
Unknown
Or automatically find your investor matches
Upload your pitch deck to get your best investor matches in minutes.
Reveal the very best VCs to pitch for your startup
Get matching investors' email addresses
No ads. No catch. Free from VC Sheet.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Success. Check your email in 5 minutes.


















.jpeg)







.jpeg)











































































.png)
























































































































.jpeg)









.jpeg)


















































































.jpeg)

