Ergatha is run by a small team in Bangalore.
We started Ergatha because of a gap we kept running into.
India has an enormous number of good businesses that are too small for institutional investors and too asset-light for banks. Most of the capital available to them arrives with a requirement attached: sell the company within a few years, to whoever pays the most. Owners who do not want that end up with nowhere to go.
Those are the businesses that employ people, train them, and hold communities together. We think they are worth owning properly and for a long time, and that is what the firm is for.
A business, owned patiently and run well, is among the most durable engines of good there is.
We hold capital in trust rather than as our own. How it is stewarded matters to us as much as what it returns.
Generosity is a discipline rather than a surplus. We would rather own companies that can afford to be generous for decades than companies that are generous once.
We are operators before we are investors.
Between us we have started and run companies, hired for them, and made the decisions that only come up when the business is yours. That experience shapes how we invest, and it is why we work closely inside the businesses we back rather than only financing them.
We came up inside a community of entrepreneurs and investors who take these questions seriously, and a good deal of what we know we learned there. We are still learning it, mostly by asking people further along than we are.
Ergatha is a young firm finding its footing. Today we own and operate our sports and entertainment business, are in diligence on our first partnership investments, and are running the first season of Anthology. Reach out any time for more on our progress.
Ergatha is a stylised rendering of the Greek for good works. It embodies our culture and our values.