High Return and High Impact with Maya Chorengel of Elevar Equity

Maya Chorengel is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Elevar Equity, a leading venture investor focused on bottom of the pyramid markets. Building on a career in investment banking and private equity, Maya has been active in the impact investing space for a decade, first as Managing Director of the microfinance focused Dignity Fund and for the past eight years as Managing Director of Elevar Equity. Elevar Equity has delivered the highest financial returns among emerging market funds in the impact space while at the same time achieving considerable impact, providing essential services to millions of BoP households in India and Latin America.Maya will talk about Elevar Equity's experience as a pioneer in the impact investing space. Elevar Equity backs innovative entrepreneurs at start-up or early stage and helps their companies achieve tremendous scale in their ambition to bring financial services, education, housing and healthcare to millions in low income communities. She will discuss the challenges faced by high growth companies balancing impact and financial return and talk through lessons learned, from companies that failed to companies that were able to achieve an IPO.