Airavat Capital

Backed by patient capital and adopting best-in-class alignment; we follow a conservative, research-oriented, private-investment-like approach to discovering great technology-led businesses.

In ancient Indian mythology, Airavat was a multi-tusked white elephant considered to be the guardian of heaven, and symbolized wisdom.

Inspired by its mythological namesake, Airavat Capital seeks to be a guardian of its investors’ wealth, and to help create long-term value by employing wisdom, prudence and patience in the face of fear, greed and emotions that often drive capital markets. The firm manages pools of capital from Indian and international investors to back great emerging and next-generation technology-led companies in public equities.

Deeply influenced by the founders' background in private equity and venture capital, the firm embraces differentiated levels of alignment, rigor and long-term focus in its approach to public market investing. We adopt a research-oriented process that emphasizes proprietary, bottom-up work focused on business insights and diligence on management alignment.

At Airavat, we believe good values make for good business. The firm's founders have significant skin-in-the-game with most of their net worth being invested alongside investors. Performance fees are back-ended, allowing for higher compounding of capital and providing safeguards against drawdowns. And funds managed by Airavat are backed by a like-minded investor base that believes in taking the long view on the compounding opportunity.

At a macro level, Airavat is also a story about India’s emerging strength in global software and technology as the country grows into becoming the world’s largest developer pool. We’ve found the network of the Indian VC / tech ecosystem (founders, CTOs, angels, seed funds, accelerators, developers, IT services firms, captives etc.) to be a differentiated source of insight which we seek to harness and deploy on a global canvas.