Eiliant Advisors Bets Big on Its Lifecycle Growth Advisory Business
Since its inception in 2018, Eiliant has grown steadily and recently advised Space-Tech start-up, Bellatrix Aerospace to raise $ 3 Million in its Pre Series – A round. The firm has developed a strong investment thesis around Space-Tech, Cybersecurity and Health-Tech and is building capabilities on scaling and augmenting growth. Eiliant is focused on mergers and acquisitions, growth capital augmentation, technology strategy, growth consulting and CFO advisory to enable growth, scale and competitiveness for mid-market companies and curated start-ups. Its advisory is focused towards 4 verticals - Science and Technology, Manufacturing, Consumer and Financial Services including Fintech. Eiliant has created its proprietary engagement framework to unlock value and accelerate growth for emerging businesses and challenger brands across their life-cycle while ensuring investors get better-than-market returns on their investments with Eiliant portfolio companies.
The firm has also signed up 3 multi-year strategic growth-to-exit contracts for challenger brands across organized bakery, wellness and chocolate. On the back of this development, the firm announced on-boarding of 3 industry veterans as its new partners, making a total of 5 partners across verticals. Eiliant now aims to become a $ 25 million entity by 2025 with a global footprint. It is with this intent it is structuring itself to brace up for the growth opportunities.
The company’s new partners are Dean George who has worked with Arvind, Titan, StoreKing and HCL, Jubin Mishra who has worked with Accenture, HSBC, Sony and Aavishkaar-Intellecap and Sachin Gupta who has worked with LG, Blue Dart, Toll Group before joining Eiliant. Dean George, an MBA from University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand, brings in 20 + years of experience and will lead Sales and Business Operations Advisory; Jubin Mishra, an alumnus of IIM Kozhikode with 20+ years of experience will be responsible for Growth Strategy and Marketing Advisory; Sachin Gupta, a chartered accountant and alumni of IIM Bangalore joins Eiliant advisory to focus on transaction and CFO Advisory.
Speaking about the development, Mr Udit Mitra, Founder, Eiliant Advisors said: “With Dean, Jubin and Sachin joining, we now have a leadership team of accomplished professionals with a proven track record across businesses and geographies. At this point, we are running and curating deals across our focused verticals and their addition will help us to broaden our service portfolio across the business life cycle of our clients. This will now enable us to work as an extension for the investors, in achieving their R-o-I and exits, while building competitive business models for entrepreneurs in mid-market and curated start-ups. With this new addition, we have a collective 100+ years of experience – which we will bring to fore to offer our differentiated services to our clients and investors.”
Eiliant Advisors is currently working on exclusive mandates in a deep-tech company using Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing to deliver intelligent monitoring and energy savings for large facilities and buildings; a Made-in-India, smart urban mobility solution - automating over 3 million parking spaces across India and South East Asia using proprietary Algorithm. The firm is also looking at various deals across consumer, manufacturing which will be online in upcoming quarters. The firm is targeting to on-board 2 more full life cycle clients during the second half of FY20.
Adding to the firm’s development, Mr Anish Sengupta, Co-Founder said: “As a firm, we have a significant focus on deep-tech mandates. We look for enterprise technology companies with a defensible technical moat, reached through significant research and protected by patents or copyrights. With Dean, Jubin and Sachin coming on board, we hope to accelerate growth in this area also”.
