Corporate Finance Associates Worldwide (CFAW) is an independent international investment banking firm serving middle-market businesses. For over 65 years CFAW has been advocating on behalf of business owners who are restructuring a company, either through divestiture, merger, acquisition, or recapitalization. Combining the knowledge and leverage of a larger bank with the customer-focused detail of a boutique firm, from inception to completion, our senior principals provide hands-on expertise to clients buying, selling, or recapitalizing a business.CFAW India currently has offices located at Mumbai and Pune that was established in 2009. From a 'developing nation' just two decades back, India, today, has emerged as one of the decisive nations shaping the contours of the world economy. Consistently charting a growth path over the last few years, Brand India is an idea whose time has truly arrived. Today, the triumph of Brand India is visible in almost all fields - with some aggressive cross-border acquisitions India has been rewriting the global business equations; India has established its leadership in IT and knowledge-based industries globally; and along with the rapidly declining age profile, it has the fastest growing population of workers and consumers. The India office has been actively providing Private Equity Syndication, Structured Finance, Special Situations Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Advisory services to corporate enterprises and investment groups.Some of our Representative transactions are listed below.

Kisanserv is an Omnichannel ("seamless, high-quality customer experience") commerce company addressing the USD 140 bn (Source: IMARC Report) fruits and vegetables India market i.e., majorly unorganized (non-digital Kirana). Kisanserv is organising this problem leveraging its proprietary end to end technology from Farm to Kart for Farmers and Consumers.

We, at Intangles, believe that connected vehicles are things of the past already. We stand for an even intelligent system – the Digital Twin concept. Digital Twin has the capability to revolutionize the automobile industry by simulating the real-world environment into a virtual world by analyzing data using Physics-based analytics and improving the prediction using Deep Learning. In a nutshell, any information obtainable by a physical inspection of a vehicle can be acquired simply from its Digital Twin, right from your office.

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Teknovace was established in 2019 by a group of Technocrats. Since then, the company has grown at 100% CAGR this far despite the two lock downs due to the pandemic and has been profitable since inception. The company recently secured Pre-Series A financing, led by highly successful and experienced entrepreneurs to fuel Growth & Market expansion.Teknovace Group is dedicated to the development and manufacturing of high-quality Paints & Coatings. Our mission is developing product offerings based on Nanotechnology giving improved protection & color retention for interiors & exterior exposure to wood with our coatings against direct exposure to sun and rain, taking every wood substrate differently and developing coatings most effectively for a given substrate. We are a highly specialised company in high-end products such as Polyurethanes (both Alkyd and Acrylics PU), Epoxies, Water-based Coatings, Polyesters, UV, EB, Electrostatic Paints and so on.At Teknovace we aim to create a truly global organization driven by its strong ethos of innovation & technological acumen. We seek to take our products made in India to every part of the world and add colors to global evolution with our innovative range of products.

Saltrock Advisors Private Limited is a small & medium enterprise (s), India focused boutique investment bank with experience in objective investment advise, portfolio and risk management practice. I promoted Saltrock along with the founder of Mata Securities India Private Limited, a leading player in Corporate Finance, Wholesale debt broking and Mutual fund distribution having a strong network of Banks, Financial Institutions, Domestic Corporate's. We have successfully completed several advisory transactions during this period and in order to add enhance value for our ecosystem, Saltrock established Corporate Finance Associates (CFA) primary office for India and is doing business as CFA in India.

Formerly, he was the Executive Director of IndiaCo Ventures Limited. IndiaCo was an investment firm, which I got listed by way of a Reverse Merger on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The firm focused on providing mid-market private held companies growth capital along with strategic management support with an hands-on operational approach. At IndiaCo, he was instrumental is scaling up operations from an incubation stage to public listing. During this tenure, he also received a token of appreciation from Duke Equity Partners, Inc for successfully launching the fund operations in India and advising them on select investment vehicles, investments of which yielded returns in excess of 241%. Representative investments are listed below in the Media links.

Kitchen No1 Private Limited was B2B2C cloud kitchen and restaurant aggregator which was way ahead of its times which is todays Zomato & Swiggy. I was the Founder and responsible for overall business and venture establishment. The company rolled out operations early 2001 successfully. During the course of operations, I forged a strategic relationship that lead to acquisition by KRP Hospitality Services in FY 2003. At this point, I exited from operations and ownership of the company and handed over operations to other Founders of KRP Hospitality Services who took over thereafter. This unsuccessful start-up experience that could not scale, is where I got most of entrepreneurial learnings and understanding of what not to do when you want to establish a business.