Board Resolution Checklist for Indian Startups: What Founders Must Record Before Banking, ESOPs and Funding
A startup board resolution is not paperwork for later. It is the evidence trail that proves who approved banking, equity, ESOPs, borrowing, contracts, fundraising and key founder decisions.
MCA DPT-3 Relief for FY 2025-26: 31 July 2026 Fee-Free Filing Checklist for Startups
MCA has provided relief from additional fees for Form DPT-3 filing for FY 2025-26 up to 31 July 2026. Startups should use the window to classify loans, advances and exempt deposits correctly.
AI Tool of the Day for Founders | 25 June 2026 | Kortix Suna for Company AI Agents
Kortix Suna gives founders a company AI command center where agents, skills, integrations, automations and memory can live in a code-owned workflow.
AI Tool of the Day for Founders | 24 June 2026 | Meetily for Private AI Meeting Notes
Meetily is an open-source, privacy-first AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings locally, making it useful for founders who want searchable meeting notes without sending every discussion to a cloud tool.
ESOP Grant Letter Checklist for Indian Startups: What Founders Should Fix Before Promising Equity
An ESOP promise made in an offer letter is not enough. Indian startups need an approved ESOP scheme, clear grant letters, vesting logic, exercise rules, tax communication and clean records before employees or investors rely on the equity promise.
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme Final Selection Window: 30 June 2026 Checklist for Founders and Incubators
Startup applications under SISFS closed on 31 May 2026, and the official portal states that incubators must complete 100 percent startup selection by 30 June 2026. Founders should now prepare for documentation, fund-use discipline and post-selection compliance.
Cap Table Cleanup for Indian Startups: Founder Checklist Before Seed or Series A Funding
A cap table problem is rarely just an Excel problem. For Indian startups, it usually means missing allotment records, unsigned founder terms, ESOP confusion, FEMA gaps or shareholder rights that do not match company records.
National Startup Awards 5.0 Applications Are Open: DPIIT Recognition Checklist for Indian Startups
National Startup Awards 5.0 applications are open on Startup India. DPIIT-recognized startups should treat this as a government recognition opportunity and a documentation exercise, not a last-minute form upload.
AI Tool of the Day for Founders | 23 June 2026 | Khoj for a Self-Hosted AI Second Brain
Khoj is an open-source, self-hostable AI second brain that helps founders chat with documents, sync knowledge sources, use local or hosted models and build a searchable internal knowledge layer.
Co-Founder Exit and Dispute Checklist for Indian Startups: What to Fix Before Things Break
A co-founder exit becomes expensive when the company has no signed founder agreement, no vesting language, no IP assignment and no clean process for share transfer, board control or handover.
