Akruti Shanishchara
Co-founder, Head of Business Services
Mumbai
Nine years in accounts, audit, and income tax. She leads compliance, bookkeeping, financial statements, and the controls a company needs before it raises.
LinkedInMumbai / Idea to Series A / Hands-onPartners to founders
Partners to founders
building companies
that can last
from idea to Series A.
Akruti and Sanket Shanishchara founded Arambh Global Ventures in Mumbai. The practice looks after compliance, the books, fundraising advisory, and private wealth.
We sit with founders before the round, during the raise, and on the wealth book after.
₹1.25 Cr
Wealth AUM
₹1.7 L
Monthly SIP book
15+
Managers supported
Pre-seed to Series A
Stage
Debt and equity
Capital
Founders and families
Clients
First-year practice figures, published by the founders.
Mumbai
01 — Investment thesis
What we believe about building with founders.
- 01
A problem well understood is already half solved.
- 02
Enduring companies are built on compliance, not around it.
- 03
Technology should simplify finance operations, not decorate them.
- 04
The right raise starts with books, a model, and a structure an investor can trust.
02 — Two verticals
The practice.
Formation
Company & LLP
Books & MIS
Accounting
Tax & compliance
Statutory
Virtual CFO
Operations
Investment banking
Debt & equity
Financial modeling
Fundraising
Due diligence
Transactions
Private wealth
Equities & alternatives
02b — Who we work with
Founders, and the people who back them.
01
Founders
Companies from idea to Series A that need books, a model, and a raise that will stand up.
02
Operators raising
Debt, equity, and M&A support through diligence, not only an introduction.
03
Clients of the practice
Families and founders who want the wealth book handled with the same care as the company.
03 — Partnership
Why founders choose Arambh
- 01
Compliance without the maze
Formation, filings, and statutory work handled end to end, so the company stays clean from day one.
- 02
Numbers a raise can stand on
Books, MIS, and models built the way an investor or a lender will read them.
- 03
Hands-on through the close
We sit in the process — diligence lists, data rooms, term discussions — until the round is done.
- 04
Wealth beside the company
Founder wealth is managed alongside the business, not as an afterthought once the round lands.
- 05
Built for startups and SMEs
The practice is sized for early companies: direct access, plain answers, no account layers.
- 06
A long relationship
We are looking for founders we will still be working with several rounds from now.
04 — Founders
Two people, both on the file.
Sanket Shanishchara
Co-founder, Head of Advisory & Wealth
Mumbai
Chartered Accountant and Executive MBA in Business Analytics. Thirteen years across debt, equity, and M&A. Across that career he has raised more than ₹250 crore of debt, and he now leads advisory and private wealth for founders.
LinkedIn05 — Journal
View all From the founders.
05b — How we work
- 01
Write to us
A short note on the company and what you need. A founder replies.
- 02
We read the books
Before advising, we go through the numbers, filings, and structure.
- 03
One mandate, one calendar
A single scope and timeline, agreed in writing, owned by the founders.
- 04
Stay through the close
We sit in diligence and documentation until the work is done.