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About THE STARTUP GIG

We are a nonconventional law firm, turned one-stop service center for startups, SME’s, Investors, and VC’s. We constantly try to solve every problem the startup ecosystem faces in terms of the services it needs. Our approach of investing a lot of time with the Entrepreneur, understanding their Vision and then giving customized, easy and most importantly cost-effective solutions has now become our USP.

We are professionals, who love businesses and understand that the traditional law firm approach will not suit a dynamic startup.

OUR PILLAR OF PROGRESS IS OUR CORE ADVISORS

Pooja Terwad

Founder

Pooja Terwad is a Startup Attorney by profession and an entrepreneur at heart. Passion for entrepreneurship, made her quit her corporate job and set up a startup focused law and business consultancy firm, in 2015. Since its inception, her firm, PTA, has worked and advised 1500+ startups & multiple investors and VC’s. 

 

CS Jigar Shah

Secretarial Advisor

Jigar Shah, a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, started his Secretarial career in 2007. An expert in Compliance, Commodity Exchange, Secretarial Audits, Due Diligence and IPO Compliances. Associated with The Startup GIG , since 2018, he guides and advises our Compliance Team

 

CA Akshit Parekh

Accounting , GST & MCA Compliance Partner

Akshit, leads our Accouting wing, whereby he and his team ensure that all our clients have clean books and compliances. Akshit plays a vital role in Financial Due Diligence & GST Management for our clients, since 2016.

Gitika Khanchandani

Intellectual Property Advisor

Gitika Khanchdani, is a graduate of Mumbai University and has over 10 year experience in Intellectual Property Law. Associated with The Startup GIG since 2015, she majorly helps startups procure their Trademark, Patents and Copyrights in India and Overseas.

 

Trusted by 2000+ Startups and counting, including…

OUR ROAD MAP

2015

A one Woman team working out of a small space in Mumbai, starts out ambitiously, offering basic startup legal services like documentations and IP Advisory. Provides services to four startup clients single handedly, 2 out of which have now been acquired.

2016

The team size increases as we realize the bigger problem startups face and decide to aggressively build a one stop servicing center for startups. Include Accounting, Taxation , Compliances, IP and HR Services in our portfolio. The number of clients skyrocket to over 125 in a year and satisfaction percentage increases to 90%.

2017

We decide to build our firm on a “Zero Marketing Budget” and keep the growth organic. Based on constant interaction with Entrepreneurs at Events and Mentoring sessions,  new Services are introduced to meet their requirements. Three of our startup clients decide to expand business in Singapore and they still want to retain us as their advisors.  

Our Singapore journey begins here.

2018

We introduce Entrepreneurship for 2nd and 3rd tier cities and mentor over 1000 passionate Entrepreneurs. We are proud that many of these Entrepreneurs now run their successful enterprises. By this time, we have introduced more specialized services like Joint Venture Advisory, Mergers and Acquisition deals etc. Angel Investors, VC’s and family offices in India and overseas join our trusted list of clients.

2019

New services are introduced; Strategic Partnership Agreements are concluded,  milestones are crossed; with more than 400  happy customers, PTA continues to gain the trust of their clients.

2020

The year started with new hopes and set milestones and a tragedy in the form of Corona hits the world. We decide to fight back and continue our journey from our homes. The growth has reduced, but, determination and passion for Entrepreneurship has not ceased a bit.

2021

We Quickly adapted and began providing virtual services to customers worldwide. During covid, we actually observed a stunning trajectory increase.

2022

Serviced over 825+ Startups & 125+ Investors total team size of 16 leader. Providing on site & Virtual services to clients in USA, Dubai, Japan & Canada

2024

Serviced over 1400 clients