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Investor Readiness Diligence

Establish clean data rooms, audit cap tables, review secretarial records, and pass VC due diligence checks.

Finance Ready

Pass Investor Audits Without Friction

Many early-stage funding term sheets collapse during legal and financial due diligence because of unorganized secretarial records, pending tax filings, missing IP assignment deeds, or unclear cap tables. Our legal and CA team runs a comprehensive mock due diligence to clean up your record before VCs inspect it.

We index your documents, update statutory registers, resolve compliance gaps, and launch a secure virtual data room ready for investor access.

Investor Readiness Diligence
How It Works

3-Step Readiness Sprint

From mock audit to launching your investor data room.

1
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Document Audit

Collect current incorporation papers, MCA filings, board minutes, tax logs, employment contracts, and IP deeds.

2
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Gap Resolution

Fix missing board resolutions, update share registers, regularize pending tax returns, and execute IP assignments.

3
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Data Room Launch

Deliver a secure, indexed Google Drive / Notion data room complete with due diligence readiness certificates.

Diligence Checkpoints

What Readiness Audit Covers

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Secretarial & MCA Records

Audit MOA/AOA amendments, board minutes, annual returns (MGT-7/AOC-4), and director DIN status.

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Cap Table & Equity Verification

Verify share certificate issuances, valuation reports, PAS-3 filings, and ESOP pool allocations.

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IP Assignment Deeds

Ensure all software code, trademarks, domain names, and designs are legally owned by the company entity.

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Tax & Financial Compliance

Verify GST filings, Income Tax returns, TDS certificates, and Provident Fund (PF) deposits.

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Key Material Contracts

Review vendor leases, customer agreements, non-competes, and supplier contracts for risk clauses.

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Indexed Data Room Structure

Cleanly categorized virtual folder hierarchy formatted for institutional investor access.

SPROUT Insights

Due Diligence Playbooks

Diligence Masterclass

Why funding deals fail in due diligence — and how to prevent it

Our legal partners walk through common red flags raised by VC legal teams during due diligence audits.

Article
How to structure a VC-ready virtual data room

An indexing guide for organizing legal, financial, HR, and tech documents for investor review.

Podcast
Fixing cap table errors before term sheets

Company Secretaries explain how to resolve share transfer issues and ESOP pool allocations.

Founder Kit
The Investor Readiness & Data Room Kit

Due diligence checklist, data room folder template, cap table tracker, and secretarial audit sheet.

Ready to prepare for investor due diligence?

Audit your legal records, clean up cap tables, and set up a VC-ready data room with our diligence team.

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