Start-up Consultancy
Founder-side consultancy from the first entity choice to the first institutional round — and the compliance that follows.
Founders make structural decisions early that are expensive to unwind later — the entity type, the cap table, who holds what and on what terms. We advise from that point: DPIIT recognition and Startup India benefits, the section 80-IAC tax holiday where it is genuinely worth claiming, angel tax exposure under section 56(2)(viib), and ESOP scheme design and administration. As a round approaches we get the books, the compliance history and the data room into a state that will survive investor diligence.
Founders come at three points: forming the entity, preparing for a round, and after a term sheet when diligence exposes what was never set up properly. The third is the most expensive. We work with early-stage companies across sectors on structuring, DPIIT and 80-IAC applications, ESOP schemes and investor readiness, and we are candid about which government benefits are worth the effort of claiming for a particular business and which are not.
What Start-up Consultancy covers
- Entity structuring and founder agreements
- DPIIT recognition and Startup India benefits
- Section 80-IAC tax holiday applications
- Angel tax and section 56(2)(viib) advisory
- Cap table and shareholding design
- ESOP scheme design and administration
- Investor and due diligence readiness
- Seed and Series A funding readiness
- Start-up seed fund and grant applications
- Outsourced finance function