IPO Readiness
Assess listing readiness with support on route selection, governance, controls, KPI framing, cap table cleanup, diligence, and financial preparation so valuation stands on stronger institutional footing.
Get disciplined startup valuation support built for India’s fundraising and public-market environment. S45 helps founders and finance teams frame pricing, investor narratives, and readiness with sharper data, cleaner documentation, and practical insight into Indian market expectations, sector benchmarks, and regulatory realities.
Valuation-focused advisory for founders preparing for fundraising, pricing decisions, and public market readiness in India.
Assess listing readiness with support on route selection, governance, controls, KPI framing, cap table cleanup, diligence, and financial preparation so valuation stands on stronger institutional footing.
Speak directly with a sector banker about valuation approach, pricing logic, investor expectations, route selection, and key SEBI or exchange considerations before major capital market decisions.
Strengthen valuation credibility through cleaner disclosures, evidence-linked drafting, data room setup, and coordinated regulatory documentation that supports investor review and approval processes.
Understand where investor demand may come from, likely resistance zones, subscription patterns, and roadshow priorities to shape valuation expectations and market positioning more precisely.
Plan for liquidity, institutional targeting, follow-on capital options, and investor relations after listing so valuation momentum is supported beyond the initial market debut.
Use sector-specific pricing frames, investor maps, disclosure checklists, and IR tools tailored to industries such as technology, consumer, and financial services in India.
Startup valuation is more than a spreadsheet exercise. S45 helps connect financial performance, sector context, investor appetite, and disclosure readiness into a valuation story that can hold up under scrutiny. For Indian founders navigating private rounds, SME pathways, or Main Board ambitions, that means clearer pricing logic, stronger documentation, and fewer surprises when investors, bankers, or regulators start asking harder questions.
Backed by measurable IPO execution results, disciplined pricing, and structured advisory across India’s capital markets.
"In our EPC and electricals business, the biggest worry is whether a banker will truly understand how work actually gets done, but with S45 that clarity came immediately. They grasped our contracts, receivables, working-capital cycles and project timelines faster than anyone we've worked with, and the entire process felt structured..."
"In our business of fresh foods and cold chain, an IPO is less about paperwork and more about judgment, and that is where S45 really stood out. They understood our unit economics, supply chain realities and city-wise brand perception faster than most bankers, so nothing had to be explained twice...."
Founders choose S45 for disciplined execution, sharper analytics, and practical capital markets insight.
Proprietary analytics help surface valuation, readiness, and pricing issues earlier in the process.
Built for India’s public markets, with practical understanding of SME and Main Board expectations.
Structured workflows reduce delays, helping teams move from first call to mandate quickly.
Evidence-linked drafting and regulatory respect support cleaner execution across Indian listing requirements.
Experienced founders with capital markets and operator backgrounds.
Founder
Deepank Bhandari is a Co-Founder of S45, India's first AI-native investment bank dedicated to transforming IPO execution in India's public markets. Drawing from his background as an IIT Delhi engineer who raised venture capital on campus and scaled operations to $25 million, Deepank brings firsthand knowledge of how the best Bay Area teams operate and applies those principles to India's capital markets. At S45, he channels his engineering mindset and entrepreneurial experience into building proprietary analytics and AI-driven workflows that eliminate chaos from the IPO process. Deepank is committed to delivering faster, cleaner, and more disciplined execution for founders and investors alike, ensuring every mandate is handled with precision, transparency, and institutional rigour.
Founder
Pankaj Harlalka is a Co-Founder of S45, bringing over 22 years of experience in India's capital markets to the firm. Throughout his career, Pankaj witnessed firsthand how good companies stumbled through broken workflows, lost documentation, and unclear pricing during their IPO journeys. Driven by a conviction that the process needed fundamental reinvention, he co-founded S45 to pair deep sector expertise with proprietary AI-powered analytics. Pankaj oversees institutional relationships and ensures that every engagement reflects S45's core values of transparency, regulatory respect, and disciplined pricing. His extensive market knowledge across 12 industries and his commitment to keeping founders and investors free from unnecessary noise define his approach to investment banking.
Founder
Aman Singh is a Co-Founder of S45, an operator-turned-banker who brings rare, ground-level perspective to the IPO advisory process. Having personally navigated the experience of scaling an SME to $60 million and attempting to list it, Aman encountered the brutal realities of disorganised disclosures, lost communications, and opaque pricing that plague traditional IPO execution. That experience became the founding conviction behind S45. At the firm, Aman leads with an operational mindset, ensuring that every client engagement moves from first call to signed mandate with speed and structure. His dedication to building clean, disciplined books and delivering predictable outcomes makes him a trusted partner for founders preparing for India's public markets.
Startup valuation services help founders determine a defensible company value using financial performance, growth metrics, sector benchmarks, market positioning, capital structure, and investor appetite. In India, strong valuation work also considers fundraising stage, SME or Main Board ambitions, disclosure readiness, and how pricing will stand up to diligence from investors, bankers, and regulators.
Speak with our team for practical guidance on pricing and readiness.
Demonstrates active market execution capability.
Shows meaningful capital raising track record.
Reflects strong investor demand outcomes.
Share your stage, sector, and goals, and our team will outline the right next steps for valuation and market readiness.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +91 95879 52454.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +91 95879 52454.