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Partners
Senior partners — every mandate has one accountable.
About Nucleus · Established 2019
Built for the decisions that matter.
A senior-led firm covering audit, tax, transactions and advisory. We work with founders before the round, with boards through the listing, and with families across generations — coordinated across nine practices, not handed off between them.
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Team members
Specialists across audit, tax, transactions, advisory.
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Clients served
Founders, boards, investors and families served.
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Deals closed
M&A, fundraises and restructurings closed.
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Offices
Cities across India — Gurugram, Mumbai, Bangalore and more.
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Years combined experience
Combined partner experience on the bench.
Our journey
Fifteen years of people compounding into a firm.
2011
CA Pravesh GoelIndependent practice begins
CA Pravesh GoelIndependent practice beginsRisk AdvisoryTax & RegulatoryAssurance
2017
CA Vijay Singh RathoreJoins with expertise of capital markets
CA Vijay Singh RathoreJoins with expertise of capital marketsInvestment BankingValuations
2019
CA Hemendra ChauhanDay 1 with the founding team
Incorporated
Nucleus Advisors is formally established.
A slim founding team takes the practice and makes it a firm.
CA Hemendra ChauhanDay 1 with the founding teamGST
2020
CS Neha Rathore
CS Neha RathoreCorporate SecretarialAIF & Fund Mgmt
CA Abhishek GuptaAssurance
2021
CA Ashish Gupta
CA Ashish GuptaRisk Advisory
2022
Soonicorn Ventures launches — the investing arm of the firm.Seed and pre-Series A capital, alongside the advisory practice.
Soonicorn Ventures launches — the investing arm of the firm.Seed and pre-Series A capital, alongside the advisory practice.Investing
M&A Advisory enters the firm.Buy-side, sell-side, restructuring and succession mandates.M&A Advisory
CA Rajat SinglaTax & Regulatory
Geetanjali VirmaniFinance Outsourcing
2026
CA Aakash KalraDeepens M&A with Pravesh Goel
CA Aakash KalraDeepens M&A with Pravesh GoelM&A Advisory
From a handful to a firm
A handful of founders. A floor full of specialists.
Our philosophy
We don’t put a generalist on a specialist’s work.
Each discipline has its own partner — audit, tax, transactions, advisory. What changes at Nucleus is that they coordinate: the audit partner reads the deal memo, the tax partner sits in the diligence call, the fundraise gets built on a clean compliance base.
The decision moments where Nucleus becomes useful.
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Raising capital or preparing for a transaction.
Who we serve
Built for both sides of the capital table.
Operating businesses and financial institutions — across audit, tax, transactions and advisory, with the same partner-led bench.
Operating businesses
- Listed companiesStatutory audit, board reporting, IFC / ICFR, transactional advisory.
- Privately-held companiesAudit, tax, governance, succession and restructuring.
- ManufacturingCapital intensity, working capital, plant accounting and audit complexity.
- ServicesRevenue recognition, contract economics, MIS and people-cost discipline.
- Founder-led startupsFundraise readiness, runway, valuation, board reporting and ESOP.
Financial institutions
- BanksConcurrent, statutory and branch audits; regulatory reviews.
- NBFCsStatutory audit, IFC, RBI compliance and securitisation review.
- Funds & AIFsFund setup, NAV, investor reporting and regulatory compliance.
- Family officesPortfolio diligence, governance, reporting and restructuring.
Leadership
Partners who run the mandates end-to-end.
Each Nucleus engagement has a named partner accountable for it. These are theirs.
Business lifecycle
The moments where outside judgement matters.
Nucleus organises around the decisions founders, boards and finance teams cannot improvise — capital, controls, compliance, reporting and transactions.
- Stage 01
Incorporation and early compliance
Company formation, statutory setup, registrations, accounting foundations and compliance calendars.
- Stage 02
First finance stack
Bookkeeping, MIS, payroll, GST, tax filings, investor-friendly reporting and finance process setup.
- Stage 03
Fundraising and investor readiness
Models, pitch decks, due diligence, valuation, data rooms and investor targeting.
- Stage 04
Growth and control building
Internal audit, IFC, process improvement, controllership, tax planning and regulatory discipline.
- Stage 05
Transactions and restructuring
M&A, mergers, demergers, diligence, valuation and transaction documentation support.
- Stage 06
Scale and listing readiness
Audit readiness, Ind AS, controls, governance, reporting discipline and board-level dashboards.
Clients
Founders, funds, family offices and corporates — on both sides of the table.
From series-stage startups to listed companies, from AIFs to family offices and banks — the Nucleus bench has worked across India’s operating and financial economy. A selection of the firms we have helped is below.
Offices
Five offices across India.
Pick an office to see the location, address and photographs.
Start the conversation
When the decision isa fundraisebring it to a partner who has seen it before.
One brief, one practitioner, one workplan. Tell us what you are working through and we’ll reach out to you within 24 hours.