How a Canadian Energy Startup Employed 8 in India Without an Entity
- 8
- Employed in India
- 5
- Months to a full team
- 100%
- Statutory compliance handled
A Young Company That Couldn't Afford a Year of Setup
Founded in 2024, this energy and technology company was moving fast and spending carefully, which is exactly the situation in which setting up a foreign subsidiary makes the least sense. It needed eight skilled people in India across energy software and technical roles, employed properly, but incorporating an Indian entity would have cost months it did not have and capital it would rather put into the business.
Contractors were not the answer for roles this central. The company wanted employees, with benefits and compliance handled correctly, and it wanted them without becoming an expert in Indian labour law.
The brief was simple: a compliant India team, live in months, with zero infrastructure to maintain.
A Full India Team Without a Single Filing to Manage
Wisemonk employed all eight people in India as Employer of Record over five months, so the company got its team without registering anything locally.
Every hire came onto a compliant contract, with provident fund, professional tax, income-tax deductions, gratuity, and statutory health coverage administered from the first payroll cycle, and salaries benchmarked to the market. Wisemonk also handled onboarding and equipment so distributed hires were productive quickly.
One point of contact owned offers, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and HR. The founders made the hiring calls; Wisemonk carried the rest.
Speed the Startup Needed, Compliance It Could Trust
Five months in, the company runs a compliant eight-person India team, with 100% of its Indian statutory obligations handled in the background and none of the overhead of a subsidiary.
The capital and attention it would have spent on incorporation went into the business instead.
As the company grows, adding to the India team is one more compliant hire, not a new legal project.
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