​​Sandeep Farias is a Co-founder at Enmasse, Founder and Managing Partner at Elevar Equity. To him, the problem of how to provoke the world of capital to move towards Entrepreneurial Households is the most urgent one. He also has strong views on what it takes to create long lasting, intergenerational transformation. 

With over 25 years of experience in diverse areas such as emerging markets investing, governance and regulation, organisational design, transactions and law, Sandeep is widely regarded as an early pioneer in impact investing. He has played an influential role in the Indian microfinance sector’s scale and transformation from the non profit space to formal banking. 

Sandeep founded Elevar in 2008, driven by his passion for working with early-stage companies to deliver affordable and quality essential services to underserved communities. He believes that lack of access to essential services is a form of discrimination against underserved communities that must be challenged by leveraging the power of markets to scale and provide access to life changing services to millions of households. He plays a leadership role in Elevar’s global teams, determining the firm’s investment strategy, entrepreneur selection, working with entrepreneurs to think through inflection points in their entrepreneurial journeys and driving fund performance.  

In a past life, he led the corporate law team at Nishith Desai Associates, a leading research based international law firm headquartered in India. He also established Unitus in India in 2004 where he actively partnered with some of India’s leading microfinance institutions/banks, in their formative years. Sandeep has an integrated law and arts degree from the National Law School of India University (NLS).