India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) was established in 1999 with a focus on investing in and transforming mid-sized profitable businesses into world-class industry leaders, built on the strong foundation of IVFA Values. Steered since its inception by Vishal Nevatia, IVFA has built deep knowledge and skills in the Indian markets and has successfully launched five separate investment funds with a combined corpus of over US$ 1.8 billion. Currently, IVFA is investing out of IVF - V, which has a corpus of US$ 682 million.

IVFA follows either ‘Buy and Build' or ‘Invest and Build' business model. In ‘Buy and Build’, IVFA acquires majority equity stakes, partners with high quality management teams and entrepreneurs to build scale and profitability.  On the other hand, in ‘Invest and Build', IVFA acquires significant minority equity stakes and plays a supportive role to existing entrepreneurs in transforming businesses. Over 70% of all capital invested by IVFA till date is under Buy and Build model.

IVFA’s insights and understanding of India has been sharpened over the last 16 years by investing over US$ 1 billion in more than 40 Indian businesses. It has successfully guided these companies in making the transition into well established and large businesses that are valuable, enduring, socially responsible and are creating immense wealth for all stakeholders. Although sector agnostic, IVFA has built strong understanding of sectors like Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Logistics, Supply Chain & Retailing, Infrastructure Services, Education and Clean Energy.

The IVFA team has been structured with a balanced mix of 9 Investment and 16 Business Managers, who bring with them several hundred man-years of industry experience to achieve the above objective. 
IVFA truly values its relationships with investors, entrepreneurs and management teams. It is also very conscious of its fiduciary duty towards the capital under management. This capital has been contributed by over 35 high quality international institutions with a combined investible capital base of over US$ 1 trillion. For more information on IVFA, we request you to please visit http://www.ivfa.com.

India Equity Partners (IEP) IEP manages an India-focused, long-term, growth-oriented private equity fund with approximately $350 million of capital. IEP has offices in New York, Mumbai and Mauritius. IEP is part of a $2 billion pool of affiliated funds dedicated to India. We follow a fundamental research-driven investment philosophy with an investment horizon spanning 4-7 years. IEP aims to partner with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams in fast growing sectors as a value-added investor. We are committed to assisting our portfolio companies and we accomplish this by leveraging the experience and relationships of our team members for strategic thinking, operations improvement, customer expansion, acquisitions, recruiting senior management and assistance with fund raising. We typically invest $20 to $60 million in a single investment but will invest larger amounts with co-investors and partners.

Steven Wish is a Co-Founder of IEP and is also a member of the fund Investment Committee and Board of Directors. Steven is also Vice Chairman of Ireo, an India focused real estate fund. Steven retired as a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked for 17 years in corporate finance, M&A, capital markets and investment management.

Sid Khanna is the Chairman of IEP Fund Advisors and has over 30 years of financial services, strategic advisory, operations and outsourcing experience. Sid was the former Country Managing Partner of Accenture. Sid serves on the boards of leading Indian companies such as United Spirits and CanaraHSBC.

Anurag Bhargava is a Co-Founder of IEP and is also a member of the fund Investment Committee and Board of Directors. Anurag is also the Chairman of Ireo, an India focused real estate fund. He was previously a Principal and Head of Private Equity at MSD Capital (the private investment firm of Michael Dell and his family).

K.K. Iyer is a Managing Director of IEP and is responsible for investments in the Life Sciences and Education Sectors. KK also serves on the boards of IEP portfolio companies.

Gaurav Mathur is a founding Managing Director of IEP. Previously he was a Principal with JPMorgan Partners and before that with Deutsche Bank. Gaurav serves on the boards of Ocean Sparkle and Ikya HR Services.

o3 Capital is a mid-market investment bank, providing financial and strategic advice to clients. The company is built on two core businesses – Corporate Finance and Alternate Asset Management.

o3 Capital serves a wide range of clients including cutting-edge start-ups, established market leaders, private equity houses and large global corporate entities, across select verticals - Consumer, Healthcare, Industrials, Financial services, Technology and Digital. o3 Capital has successfully consummated 110+transactions in the last 9 years aggregating to over USD 4.5 bn in transaction value.