Set up your Indian subsidiary from the ground up, then run everything behind it, from incorporation, banking, and compliance to payroll, vendors, and day-to-day administration. 100% ownership from day one. One partner for the entire operation.
Not every India team needs one. These are the situations where owning the entity is the only thing that actually solves the problem in front of you.
Your Indian customers are asking for a GST invoice raised by an Indian company, in your own name.
Product is being built in India and you want the IP sitting directly inside your corporate structure.
You need to sign an office lease, a local vendor contract, or a distribution agreement in India yourself.
An investor or an acquirer has asked why a core part of your team sits outside the group structure.
You are hiring a country manager or a leadership team who need authority to commit on your behalf in India.
India has stopped being something you are testing and started being a business line you plan around.
Not the market, and not the registry. It is usually the bank, the director seat, a reporting window, or an agreement signed too quickly.
Banking
We handle it: bank-grade documents collected at kickoff, before the company legally exists.
Resident director
We handle it: a Wisemonk professional in the seat, under written authority limits, with D&O and professional indemnity cover.
Foreign investment reporting
We handle it: the capital plan and its reporting calendar are set before the first dollar moves.
Inter-company agreement
We handle it: in-house counsel drafts the inter-company agreement before your first invoice.
Your parent company holds 100% of the shares from the incorporation documents onward. It is not something you work your way up to, and not something anybody has to hand back to you later. Everything below sits on top of that.
You move through all three. Ownership is not one of them, because it is settled before the first stage begins.
Your parent is the shareholder on the founding documents. We handle everything after that: incorporation and registrations, the bank account and capital funding, and the resident director seat filled. At the end, a registered company with a live bank account and every registration in place.
One accountable team instead of an accountant, a company secretary, a payroll vendor, and a laptop supplier. Every filing on the compliance calendar, payroll, HR, and banking inside your limits, plus recruiting, equipment, and office space. At the end, a running India business with a clean filing history and no back office you had to hire.
A checklist agreed the day you signed, for a fee fixed the same day. A transition fee, not an exit penalty. The director seat and banking rights, statutory records and vendor contracts, with no share valuation and no re-papering. At the end, the same company, run by your own people, with a full paper trail.
Many India entry arrangements park your company with a provider or a nominee and hand it over later. That turns your presence in a market into something you eventually have to negotiate for.
| The ownership chain | Wisemonk Entity | Nominee and classic BOT models |
|---|---|---|
| Parent company | Your parent company | Your parent company |
| Holds the shares | Your parent company, from the incorporation documents onward. | The provider or a nominee holds them until a transfer is agreed. |
| The India entity | Your India Pvt Ltd | Your India Pvt Ltd |
| Wisemonk's role | An operating mandate only. Every approval threshold and board action stays with you. | Not applicable — the provider holds equity rather than a mandate. |
| When you own it | Day one. | At the end, once the transfer has been agreed, valued, and documented. |
We operate on your behalf. Never over you.
Incorporation is the visible part. An Indian private limited company then carries more than twenty recurring registrations, returns, and filings, spread across central and state authorities, each with its own portal and its own penalty. Here is the rhythm of a financial year, and who touches each one.
| Obligation | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payroll and TDS deposit Salary tax withheld and remitted | Apr: Wisemonk prepares and files it | May: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jun: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Sep: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jan: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Feb: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Mar: Wisemonk prepares and files it |
| PF and ESI returns Retirement and medical contributions | Apr: Wisemonk prepares and files it | May: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jun: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Sep: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jan: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Feb: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Mar: Wisemonk prepares and files it |
| GST returns Monthly filings, annual return in December | Apr: Wisemonk prepares and files it | May: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jun: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Sep: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jan: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Feb: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Mar: Wisemonk prepares and files it |
| Professional tax State level, varies by location | Apr: Wisemonk prepares and files it | May: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jun: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Sep: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jan: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Feb: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Mar: Wisemonk prepares and files it |
| Quarterly TDS returns Withholding statements | Apr: nothing due | May: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Jun: nothing due | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: nothing due | Sep: nothing due | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: nothing due | Dec: nothing due | Jan: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Feb: nothing due | Mar: nothing due |
| Advance tax Instalments on projected profit | Apr: nothing due | May: nothing due | Jun: needs your approval or signature | Jul: nothing due | Aug: nothing due | Sep: needs your approval or signature | Oct: nothing due | Nov: nothing due | Dec: needs your approval or signature | Jan: nothing due | Feb: nothing due | Mar: needs your approval or signature |
| Statutory audit and AGM Signed accounts, board resolutions | Apr: nothing due | May: nothing due | Jun: nothing due | Jul: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Aug: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Sep: needs your approval or signature | Oct: nothing due | Nov: nothing due | Dec: nothing due | Jan: nothing due | Feb: nothing due | Mar: nothing due |
| Company annual filings Registrar of Companies | Apr: nothing due | May: nothing due | Jun: nothing due | Jul: nothing due | Aug: nothing due | Sep: nothing due | Oct: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: nothing due | Jan: nothing due | Feb: nothing due | Mar: nothing due |
| Corporate tax and transfer pricing Return plus inter-company documentation | Apr: nothing due | May: nothing due | Jun: nothing due | Jul: nothing due | Aug: nothing due | Sep: nothing due | Oct: needs your approval or signature | Nov: Wisemonk prepares and files it | Dec: nothing due | Jan: nothing due | Feb: nothing due | Mar: nothing due |
You keep every decision that shapes the business. We take every task that only exists because the business is in India.
Stays with you
Headcount, roles, comp bands, offers
Your managers, your tools, your goals
You set the limit, we stop at it
Capital, structure, strategy
Your call, on terms agreed upfront
Runs on our side
Filled from day one, under written authority limits, with D&O and professional indemnity cover behind the appointment
Central and state, prepared and submitted
Run on our platform, not on spreadsheets
Salary and vendor payments inside your limits
Sourcing and closing sales, delivery, and engineering hires across India
Laptops and peripherals bought locally, delivered, tracked, and recovered at exit
Desks through WeWork and partner providers, sized to your headcount
In-house counsel, inter-company agreements, external firms
Handing operations to a partner usually means finding out how India is doing when you ask someone. Everything we run sits on a product instead, covering the full employee lifecycle, so the owner's view is open whether or not anyone is around to answer an email.
When you are ready to run India yourself, graduation is a checklist we agreed at signature, priced as a one-time transition fee rather than a penalty. Nothing gets re-papered, nobody gets re-hired, and no employee sees a change.
Most clients graduate when they hire their own India finance lead. Some never do, and keep us running it for years. Both are fine, because the company was yours either way.
Both routes end in the same place: a private limited company you own outright. The difference is who does the work behind it, and how much of an India back office you have to build before it can run.
| Wisemonk Entity | Entity you set up yourself | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the company | 100% yours, from the incorporation documents onward. | 100% yours. |
| Incorporation and registrations | Filed by one team: name approval, incorporation, PAN, TAN, GST, PF, ESI, professional tax, state registration. | You appoint and coordinate a company secretary and a chartered accountant, then chase each registration separately. |
| Resident director | A Wisemonk professional in the seat, under written authority limits, with D&O and professional indemnity cover behind the appointment. | You find someone resident in India willing to take a statutory appointment and the personal exposure that comes with it. |
| Bank account | Documents prepared to bank standard upfront, and the underwriting process managed for you. | You run the KYC on your parent, its directors, and its beneficial owners, and the apostille chain behind it. |
| Ongoing compliance | Prepared and filed by one accountable team, visible in your dashboard before anything is due. | Split across an accountant, a company secretary, and a payroll vendor, each tracking their own deadlines. |
| Payroll and HR | Run on our platform, inside authority limits you set. | You buy a payroll system and hire someone to operate it. |
| Inter-company agreement | Drafted by in-house counsel before your first invoice, with the transfer pricing position taken deliberately. | Usually a template, revisited when an assessment arrives. |
| Recruiting, equipment, office | Included at the service level you choose, through one relationship. | Separate vendors, separate contracts, separate invoices. |
| Owner visibility | One dashboard covering headcount, payroll, filings, and what is waiting on your approval. | Whatever your India team sends you, in whatever format they keep it. |
| Taking it in-house | A checklist and a one-time fee agreed at signature. Operations move across, the company itself does not change. | Already in-house, along with the back office you built to support it. |
Most companies that start an entity with us already have an India team running on Wisemonk. That makes the move an internal transfer rather than a fresh start, because we already hold every contract, payroll record, and compliance file involved.
A one-time setup fee, then a monthly management fee made up of a base and a per-employee component. The base moves with the service level you pick, so you are never paying for an operating layer you do not want.
Level 1 · Lightest
We hold the resident director seat and run statutory compliance. You run banking and daily operations in-house.
Best for: you already have finance people and want the seat plus the filings covered.
Level 2 · Most chosen
We operate the entity. You set the authority limits and approve the large payments, we execute everything below them.
Best for: you want an India company running properly without hiring anyone to run it.
Level 3 · Fullest
Your outsourced India COO and finance function, including recruiting, equipment, and managed office space.
Best for: you are building a real base in India and want one team accountable for all of it.
Operational benchmarks maintained across 300+ companies, by a team that works on India and nothing else.
Founders, Leaders and HR heads of fast growing startups across US, Europe, SEA and Oceania trust our services to manage their India teams.
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Red Hill Technology Solutions has run its India engineering team on Wisemonk for the past year and a half. They handle payroll and benefits end to end, so I can offer my employees good health insurance without having to master the idiosyncrasies of Indian benefits myself. Payroll cutoff reminders arrive every month before I need them, and off-cycle bonus runs have never been a problem. Even equipment purchasing, a real headache for a US company shipping to Indian addresses, is as simple as telling them what I need. Exchange rates are fair and the pricing is transparent.
Deepika Elumalai, our point of contact, ties it all together. Whatever comes up, she pulls in the right people and sees it through. For any US company building a team in India, Wisemonk is an easy recommendation.
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We came across Wisemonk and met with the CEO and staff to explain our situation, and were very impressed with their customer-focused approach to their business. Wisemonk onboarded all of my employees in one or two days. They paid my employees' salaries on the day after my payment cleared. Needless to say, my employees and I were very satisfied with their service then and remain so over a year later. We are an American company, so I was very happy to see that they have a US bank account where I can make ACH payments to minimize bank charges. All salary payments are timely. They worked directly with my employees to enroll them in the health care program and explain any coverage-related issues. The best part is that we get to work with a dedicated person assigned to our company. I would highly recommend Wisemonk and think of them as our Indian HR department.
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Beyond hiring, Wisemonk’s support team was extremely helpful in managing important operational logistics. They assisted us with coordinating meeting-related needs, including flight tickets, employee laptops, and other practical requirements, which saved us significant time and effort.
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Incorporation is a filing. The bank account is an underwriting decision, so the bank runs its own checks on your parent company and its beneficial owners, and most documents need apostille in your home country. We start collecting those at kickoff, before the company legally exists.
In a BOT, the provider holds the company and transfers the shares to you at the end, which usually means a valuation, fresh documentation, and stamp duty. Here your parent is the shareholder from incorporation, so there is no share transfer. Only operations move across.
A Wisemonk professional fills the seat under a written mandate with defined authority limits, backed by directors and officers cover plus professional indemnity insurance. It is a real statutory appointment, which is why borrowing a friend for the role is a bad idea. You can replace our appointee with your own at any time.
Two routes, and most companies use both: share capital, which is reported to the regulator within a set window after shares are allotted, and service fees under an inter-company agreement, usually on a cost-plus basis. The second is a tax position, so we draft it with counsel before your first invoice.
They move into your entity with continuous service. Provident fund follows each employee through their existing account number, gratuity counts from the original join date, and salary and benefits stay exactly as they are. Nobody re-interviews and nobody loses tenure.
You need a registered office address for correspondence and filings, which we provide, so incorporation is never waiting on a property search. Desks are a separate decision, arranged through WeWork and partner providers when your team is ready.
Yes, one company covers the whole country. What changes by city is the state layer: professional tax, Shops and Establishments registration, and in some states labour welfare contributions. We add each state as you hire into it.
Yes, and the service level is where you decide. You can take the resident director seat and statutory compliance only, add the full operating layer on top, or hand over everything including recruiting, equipment, and office space. You can also move between levels as your own India team grows.
The director seat, bank signatory rights, statutory registers, every return filed since incorporation, employee and provident fund records, vendor contracts, and a full export of your platform data. All of it on a checklist agreed at signature, for a fee fixed the same day.
Talk to someone who has built and run these, not a sales rep reading from a deck.
Thirty minutes with someone who has built these. You leave with a structure, a capital plan, a service level, and the exit terms, before you commit to anything.
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