Opportunities in Start-up - Investment Management for Chartered Accountants
(Practical Guide to new frontier of Opportunity)
Sl. Topic
1 Overview of Start-up Ecosystem – Need
for Investment Management ecosystem
2 Startups: Role as Virtual CFO
3 Startups: Legal Documentation
4 Startups: Valuation and ESOPs
Management
5 Income Tax and GST Provisions related to
Startups
6 SEBI Regulations related to Startups
(AIFs)
Details / Purpose Probable Speakers
Current economic scenario, startup ecosystem, role at Hiranmay Mahanta
every stage of ecosystem,
Compliance management, Banking relationships, cash flow Sanket Shah
management, valuation building, investor management
Due Diligence; Shareholding Agreement; iSAFE Agreement; CS M. C. Gupta / Corporate
Founders Agreement Law Firm representative
Different valuation methodologies, how valuations are
arrived, regulatory aspects from Income Tax as well as
Company law point of view.
Tax exemptions, application through CBDT for tax Representative from Income
exemptions, taxation in case of investments (in the hands Tax and GST Authorities.
of investor and investee)
Role of SEBI into Startup World, Brief on Alternate Representative from SEBI and
Investment Fund (AIF), Contribution to AIFs, Functioning of GIFT City.
AIF, Valuation of Units, Tax provisions related to Fund,
Special Provision of AIFs for GIFT City.
7 Investor management – Practical
perspective
8 Startup IPOs (BSE and NSE)
9. Startup Grants / Subsidies under various
schemes of Central / State Government
(Focused onto state of Gujarat)
Advising prospective investors, deal sourcing, board Prominent VC Fund – Asset
management, post investment monitoring and exit Management Senior executive
planning (VC as well as PE Fund)
Eligibility and procedures for Startup IPO Listing, support Merchant Banker – Himanshu
provided by Merchant bankers and Stock Exchanges, from Monarch OR Ajay Thakur
checklists etc. from BSE
Brief overview of schemes, method of applying and Rahul Gupta (IAS) or IAS from
procedure to avail grant, grant utilisation clarifications, DST
accounting of grants and subsidies.