Internet-Naytives: Bangalore Edition - A $300 Million Round Trip
Meesho is paying close to $300 million in tax to move its parent company from Delaware back to India. Razorpay paid about ₹1,200 crore for the same trip. PhonePe's investors paid over ₹8,000 crore to leave Singapore. Groww paid $160 million. Zepto, Pine Labs and Flipkart are somewhere in the same queue. Every one of these companies chose its structure in its first year, and every one of those choices was defensible at the time. The rules changed, the IPO market changed, and the bill arrived a decade later.
This is an off-the-record evening for founders who are about to make that same first-year decision, or made it recently and want to know if it still holds. Not a case against Delaware — some of the best Indian-founded companies of the last decade are Delaware companies and should be, and we're one ourselves. It's about the actual logic: what a US, Singapore or Dubai holding company buys you, who it's genuinely for, where the money leaks if you get it wrong, and how to tell which side of the line you're on before it costs anything.
The first half is the walkthrough of structures, cases, and what changed. The second half is live: a few founders' real situations, submitted anonymously when you register, worked through in front of the room. Bring the question you didn't want to ask your CA.
Hosted by Rishabh Gupta, CFA — 8 years across India–US–UAE structuring, built an incubator with over 150 companies, now building Naytive.
Approval required coz the room is for founders only
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