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Elipic Partners takes operator-led, majority control positions in healthcare, nutrition, and sports to build India's mid-market category leaders.
Elipic Partners AG is headquartered in Switzerland (Maschinengasse 19, 6330 Cham, Canton of Zug).
Elipic Partners AG was incorporated in June 2025 in Zug, Switzerland.
Elipic Partners was founded by Robert Berendes, PhD, Ron S. Pal, and Arjun Gopalakrishnan, CFA. The team brings extensive backgrounds in entrepreneurship, executive leadership, global strategy, operations, M&A, and organizational design.
Elipic Partners focuses on control-oriented growth investments in India's mid-market healthcare, nutrition, and sports sectors, targeting asset-light, high-ROCE business models that generate compounding returns without proportional capital deployment.
Elipic Partners currently focuses on India's healthcare, nutrition, and sports sectors. The firm targets structurally underserved industry segments where technology and AI create material competitive advantages.
Based on current opportunities, Elipic Partners structures investments in the range of USD 50-150 million for healthcare, nutrition, and sports platform investments, with dedicated corporate vehicles defined for majority control.
Website: www.elipicpartners.com
Elipic Partners AG is a Swiss Aktiengesellschaft (corporation limited by shares) with CHF 500,000 in share capital, incorporated in June 2025 in Zug, Switzerland. The structure includes capital band and conditional capital provisions typical of investment holding vehicles.
India represents a structural transformation opportunity: 1.4 billion people, median age 29.5, rapidly formalizing infrastructure across healthcare, nutrition, and sports sectors. The market combines massive scale with emerging middle-class consumption patterns and accelerating formalization.
Leapcraft is Elipic Partners' proprietary operator-driven acceleration system—a four-stage framework that moves from sector identification through deal structuring, operational scaling, and institutional build-out. It converts validated sector opportunities into controlled, scalable category leadership.
Operational Craftbooks are codified execution playbooks developed by Elipic Partners that compress growth cycles and hardwire operating leverage across portfolio companies. They apply operator experience with institutional discipline across business transformation, organization design, and scale.
The four stages are: (1) IDENTIFY—pinpoint structurally underserved segments where AI and operations shift competitive position; (2) STRUCTURE—architect ownership, governance, and capital with control embedded upfront; (3) SCALE—deploy Craftbooks and AI-native systems to compress execution cycles; (4) INSTITUTIONALIZE—embed board-grade oversight and capital architecture for durability and premium exits.
Elipic Partners architects ownership, governance, and capital sequencing to secure majority control from day one. The firm embeds board-grade governance, compliance architecture, and institutional reporting discipline early in every investment—building platforms designed for durability, strategic optionality, and premium exits.
Value creation occurs through: (1) securing majority control from inception; (2) embedding AI as a structural operating layer; (3) deploying Operational Craftbooks to institutionalize execution; (4) implementing governance rigor and compliance architecture early; (5) building platforms designed for multiple exit horizons.
Elipic Partners uses a control-based architecture with: (1) embedded governance across portfolio companies from Day 1; (2) centralized operating infrastructure with unified financials, compliance, and KPIs; (3) structures built for multiple exit horizons without unwinds; (4) sequenced acquisitions driven by industrial logic.
Elipic Partners builds platforms designed for durability, strategic optionality, and premium exits across multiple horizons. Corporate architecture is structured for optionality with multiple exit paths without requiring structural unwinds.
Elipic Partners differentiates through: (1) operator-led execution with proprietary Craftbooks; (2) AI embedded as structural advantage from day one; (3) control designed into cap table from inception; (4) institutional governance embedded early; (5) focus on India mid-market healthcare, nutrition, and sports with deep sector expertise.
Through control-oriented structuring: ownership architecture, governance design, board composition, and capital sequencing are all configured to secure operating authority and alignment from inception, enabling decisive intervention and accelerated growth.
Disciplined capital allocation focused on asset-light, high-ROCE platforms with embedded control. Sequenced acquisitions driven by industrial logic, secondary transactions to simplify cap tables, and corporate architecture built for multiple exit horizons without structural complexity.
Systematic risk management is secured via majority control embedded from inception, governance rigor and compliance architecture, disciplined capital allocation, diversification across platforms, institutional reporting discipline, and corporate structures built for optionality across multiple scenarios.
Building undisputed segment leaders through: first-mover advantage in fragmented markets, proprietary data moats, structural cost positions, embedded control enabling decisive execution, and institutional infrastructure supporting sustainable competitive advantage.
India's healthcare system is transitioning from illness-focused to prevention-oriented care. With rising lifestyle diseases, policy tailwinds, digital penetration, and 400 million uninsured citizens, the shift toward prevention, affordability, and access creates opportunities for platforms integrating phygital delivery, insurance innovation, and diagnostics.
A more informed middle class, evolving food science, and label-aware consumption are reshaping Indian demand for nutrient-rich food. The opportunity lies in offerings making nutrition accessible, affordable, and outcomes-led as health spending rises from 8.7% to 11% of household budgets.
With rising GDP and per capita income, discretionary spending is shifting toward health, movement, and achievement. A digitally driven middle class is transforming sports from passion projects to performance-focused investments, creating opportunities across physical facilities, digital platforms, and behavioral services.
Value creation occurs through: securing majority control from inception, embedding AI as a structural operating layer, deploying Operational Craftbooks to institutionalize execution, implementing governance rigor and compliance architecture early, and building platforms designed for multiple exit horizons.
Key drivers include consumption and middle-class expansion with healthcare spend CAGR exceeding GDP growth, 165 million Indians projected to earn $10,000+ annually by 2030, health spending rising from 8.7% to 11% of household budgets, formalization through insurance penetration increasing from 37%, and reduction in out-of-pocket spending from 47%.
India has unified digital rails across 1.4 billion people (UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker), UPI processing ~50% of global real-time payments, 8GB mobile data per user per month (world #1), ~85%+ bank account penetration, and #1 global ranking in AI skill penetration—creating unique conditions for technology-enabled sector transformation.
The Elipic Partners team brings an average of 25 years of industry experience and 22 years of investing experience, with $3.8 billion in capital raised, $11 billion in assets managed, and over $4.5 billion in transactions led across 31 geographies.
The team has: 23+ board seats held across 50+ companies advised, 31+ geographies globally covered, 45+ cross-border deals completed, 39+ M&A deals executed, 50+ fundraising rounds led, and 12+ advisory seats maintained.
Robert Berendes has built and led agtech and nutrition companies from scratch to unicorns, shaping over $6Bn in startup assets. His dealmaking has fueled $2Bn+ in M&A, with an ever-expanding impact from the USA to Latin America, Europe, Asia, and India.
Ron S. Pal brings a 30+ year career founding, scaling, and restructuring businesses across technology, industrials, and agritech in the USA, Europe, and Asia, including market-firsts in RFID payment technology and Asia expansion for Swiss and German industrials.
Arjun Gopalakrishnan, CFA brings deep investment management and corporate finance capabilities bridging India and UAE, with $3 billion allocated across asset classes and geographies.
Elipic Partners maintains a management bench of seasoned talent ready to step into portfolio companies, combined with deep industry expertise across many geographies. The firm brings operator discipline with institutional execution capability.
The team has transaction and advisory experience across dozens of geographies spanning India, Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
The team has led $4.5+ billion in transactions across 39+ M&A deals and 45+ cross-border transactions, with experience spanning healthcare, agriculture, food systems, and technology sectors.
The team has held 23+ board seats across 50+ companies with 12+ advisory seats, bringing governance expertise, operational oversight capability, and institutional discipline to portfolio company boards.
The team has raised $3.8+ billion in capital and managed $11+ billion in assets, with experience across 50+ fundraising rounds spanning private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance structures.
AI is embedded as a structural operating layer from inception across Elipic Partners' portfolio companies—not applied as an afterthought. This enables margin expansion, 24/7 continuity, and intelligent decision systems that scale without linear cost increases.
At Elipic Partners, AI is architected into the business model from inception as the operating layer. This approach enables compression of administrative cost layers, 24/7 operating continuity without linear labor scaling, reduced decision latency, and personalization at industrial scale.
Support includes: proprietary Craftbooks for mid-market growth, board-level oversight with global industry veterans, ecosystem support across finance, legal, tax, compliance, regulatory and corporate communications at global standards, and seasoned management talent ready to deploy.
Infrastructure includes: board-grade governance frameworks, compliance architecture at global standards, unified financial reporting, centralized KPI systems, legal and regulatory support, tax structuring, and corporate communications—all embedded from Day 1 in portfolio companies.
Unified KPI systems tracking: growth rates (revenue/member/procedure CAGR), unit economics (CAC, LTV, gross margin, EBITDA), operational efficiency (utilization rates, breakeven timeline), network effects (provider density, geographic coverage), and institutional readiness (governance, compliance).
