"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Funding the start-up is one of the biggest challenge for the founders. Various start-ups fail in funding for varied reasons and despite the excellent business ideas and products, the founders are not able to get the funding and fulfil their dreams!
This book is not merely a book, but a crash course on start-up funding, where all the practical and critical aspects of start-up funding, and highly specialized guidance about the start-up funding are presented in lucid language. It will be quite useful for the founders, start-up aspirants, start-up advisors, mentors, CA, CPA, CS, CMA, lawyers, financial consultants etc., to deep-dive into the world of start-up funding.
The book contains all the aspects of start-up funding such as:
·Various forms of business entities and most suitable one for start-ups
·Various sources of funding and financial instruments for start-ups
·How to assess the financial requirements of start-ups
·Understanding and evaluating financial statements and start-up metrics
·Understanding various start-up specific terms
·Various types of investors in start-up ecosystem
·Understanding crucial aspects of equity, debt and hybrid funding
·Designing effective funding strategy
·Finding out the investors, funding process and effectively closing deals with investors
·Business plan, pitch-deck, financial model, and valuation
·Practical example of financial model
·Effectively closing due diligence process
·Evaluating the Term sheet
·Legal documentation and various agreements
·Various investment rounds and investors’ exit
·Debt instruments and debt funding process
·And many more practical aspects!
Mehul Mehta
Mehul Mehta, FCA, is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mehul has about 25 years of experience in project finance, SME & start-up financing, infrastructure projects, commercial and corporate legal and regulatory matters.
Mehul has worked with consulting organizations like Deloitte, PWC and Knight Frank, and with the large corporates such as RPG Group (KEC International Ltd.), Sterling & Wilson Solar. He was the director and head of commercial and compliance departments in Knight Frank (India) Pvt. Ltd.
After he left Knight Frank, Mehul started his own consulting practice and advises to various clients for start-up funding, SME financing, SME IPO, project financing, EPC projects, due diligence review etc. He advises to founders, investors and corporates for strategic partnerships with start-ups.
Mehul has also authored books in past.
