Building the Future of Investment Banking in India

We’re building S45 because one of us lived in the chaos.

Not as a banker on the sidelines, but as a founder who scaled an SME to $60 million and then tried to list it. It was brutal: emails lost, disclosures rewritten five times, pricing that made no sense. A process built to break you before it rewards you.

The three of us bring different scars. One spent 22 years in India’s capital markets, watching good companies stumble through bad workflows. Another is an IIT Delhi engineer who raised VC on campus, scaled to $25 million, learned how the best Bay Area teams operate, and came back knowing India deserves the same discipline. We’re operators who became bankers because no one else was fixing this.

S45 is not a tool on the side. It is an AI-native investment bank that owns outcomes. Sector specialists work inside a live data room with evidence-linked drafting and a real-time book. We move from first call to signed mandate typically in 7 days, and to a DRHP-ready draft in 30 to 45 days, issuer dependent.

We chose to be unapologetically India first. Main Board or SME, the bar does not change. We apply the same institutional discipline to both. For SME we add liquidity design, market maker coordination and migration planning. For the Main Board the same AI platform and sector team build durable books. One standard, everywhere.

Our playbook is simple. Tell the truth clearly. Show the numbers with their source. Respect the regulator. Price with discipline. Keep founders and investors out of the noise.

If you are a promoter, a CFO or a board member who wants speed without shortcuts, we built S45 for you. Let us take you public the S45 way: precise, transparent and relentlessly operational.