In a pre-Series A fundraising round headed by Vakil Housing, Kayess Square, a finance, risk, governance, and transaction consultancy firm, raised Rs 10 crore. Participants included Parthasarathy NS, Ramakrishna, Umashankar, Raveen Sastry, Vadiraj Katti, Suresh Pillay, Anand Narayanan, and others.

Key Highlights

• Consulting startup Kayess Square raised ₹10 crore in pre-Series A funding to accelerate growth.
• The funding will support team expansion, capability building, and scaling consulting offerings across key sectors.

According to a press release from the company, the revenues would be utilized to improve the quality of its consulting services and bolster its key practice areas.

The Bengaluru-based company, which was co-founded in 2017 by Sathya Pramod and Shivadutt Bannanje, works in the nexus of transactions, law, governance, and finance.Kayess Square offers businesses in all phases and industries CFO consultation, M&A and transaction advising, due diligence, valuation, risk management, tax advisory, and secretarial services. It helps companies with everything from early capital raising and institutionalization to operations scaling.

The company mainly provides transaction and M&A advising, due diligence, and strategic investment support to startups, growth-stage businesses, and investors. A fractional CFO platform and knowledge of tax structuring, valuation, corporate and secretarial compliance, risk advising, and legal contract management round out these capabilities.

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Kayess Square strengthened its direct and indirect tax expertise in 2025 by acquiring Consark advising Services LLP's tax compliance and tax advising section. Its website claims that it has served more than 100 clients and completed over 4,000 projects.

In the future, Kayess Square intends to draw in elite personnel, strengthen its subject knowledge, and carefully enter important commercial regions. In order to help investors and companies navigate growth, finance, and governance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment, the company wants to develop a scaled, institution-led advising platform.