Corporate finance is a set of skills that people pay for. Watch the skills first. Then decide.
Three free live evenings for CAs, CMAs, commerce graduates, finance MBAs, accountants and engineers who are stuck in tax, audit, closings, reports or a technical role, and want to work on fundraising, valuation, lending and deals, from India, without quitting the job they already have.
- ₹0All three evenings
- 9 hoursLive, with Q&A
- 500Seats, first come first served
- 2 hrs/dayIs the plan we teach, alongside your job
Most of you were with us in August. This time we are not asking for nine hours on trust. Further down this page you can watch the actual work: a real valuation, a market-sizing case, a loan proposal, a SAFE negotiation. If it looks like work you would want to be paid for, reserve a seat.
Three taps. The page tells you your nearest door, the first assignment to do this month, and which video below to watch first.
1. Which is closest to you?
2. What do you want first?
3. How many hours a day can you give this?
Eight kinds of people sit in this room. Each one already has half of what deal work needs.
You fit if you can read a P&L, or are willing to learn to, and you want to work on fundraising, valuation, lending or deals rather than filings, closings and reports. Find yourself below. Each card names the asset you already have and the nearest door into the work. The first hour of evening one does this mapping for every background in the room.
CA or CMA in audit, tax or compliance
Your hidden asset: you are trained to read financial statements with suspicion, which is the core of due diligence. Nearest door: quality of earnings and diligence work for acquirers and transaction advisory teams, or loan and scheme work for the clients you already file for.
CA in practice, partner or senior
Your hidden asset: clients who already trust you with their numbers, and who will buy, sell, raise or borrow at some point. Nearest door: the diligence, valuation or financing mandate that would otherwise go to a stranger. Compliance is a price war; this is not.
B.Com, M.Com, CA Inter, CMA Inter
Your hidden asset: you can read a P&L, and you have time. Nearest door: market sizing, projections and pitch decks for early founders, then modelling. A B.Com with three strong work samples is a hire. The exam is a filter; this is a skill set.
MBA Finance outside the IIMs
Your hidden asset: you already speak the vocabulary and you know how to present to senior people. Nearest door: investor materials and fundraising advisory, then a boutique or mid-market deal team on the strength of a portfolio, not a campus.
Engineers, IT and core
Your hidden asset: you model, estimate and stress-test systems for a living; a deal is a system of cash flows, incentives and terms. Nearest door: financial modelling and technology diligence. Most VCs and PE professionals are engineers by background.
Accountants without CA or CMA
Your hidden asset: you already keep the books that every lender and investor wants cleaned up. Nearest door: loan-ready financials, financial MIS and reporting for SMEs, then debt introductions to RMs. No exam stands between you and this.
Analysts, bankers, consultants
Your hidden asset: you can already do pieces of the work; what is missing is deal-side proof. Nearest door: a comparables set, a diligence section or a model you built, then a transaction advisory or corporate development seat.
Final year, returning professionals, career break
Your hidden asset: hours, and no habits to unlearn. Nearest door: outreach and research for startups and angels, done from home, building testimonials that count as experience. Nobody asks about the gap when the work is in front of them.
Not for you if you want a quant desk at a bulge-bracket bank, or if you cannot find two hours a day for six months. Everything on this page assumes those two hours.
Skilled, numbers-driven people are stuck in the part of finance that pays the least, and nobody shows them the door out.
In the background of every opportunity there is a problem. This is the one we keep hearing, in the words we hear it.
CAs and CMAs in tax and audit
Lakhs qualify every year and go straight into compliance. The real money in finance is made in fundraising, M&A, valuation and deals, and that world looks like an old boys' club from the outside. The peers who got in "just got lucky". Everyone else is told to do a CFA, which takes three to four years and which 85 percent of candidates never finish.
CAs in practice
Compliance is a price war. Clients bargain on every filing, more CAs undercut every year, and software keeps eating the routine work. Staying compliance-only means shrinking margins, while the diligence and valuation mandate your own client needs when they buy, sell or raise goes to a stranger.
Commerce graduates and CA Inter
Years on attempts at a filter exam that measures exam-taking, while the skills companies actually buy, modelling, analysis, diligence, are never tested. "Stay in your lane" is the advice. Increments are painful. Bookkeeping for the rest of your life is presented as the only realistic option.
Finance MBAs outside the IIMs
The degree cost lakhs and taught DCF theory. It did not teach you how to source a deal or close a raise, and unless the campus name is IIM, IIT or a top US school, the investment banking interview call rarely comes.
Engineers
Sharp, analytical, and sitting in tech support, production floors, construction sites and labs doing monotonous work that pays a fraction of what those skills are worth. The way out on offer is CAT, an IIM, a CFA or a US MBA: long, expensive, and not realistic at this stage of a career.
Anyone outside Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru
No VC offices, no investment banks, no deal flow in your city. Your pin code has been quietly deciding your ceiling. A finance professional five years in is still earning what a fresher in a global bank's India centre starts on.
Five things changed at once. Together they opened a door that did not exist five years ago.
Wall Street now builds its finance teams in India
JPMorgan has around 55,000 people in India and is building its largest global capability centre in Mumbai. Goldman Sachs went from 300 people in Bengaluru in 2004 to more than 8,000. India runs 2,117 global capability centres employing 2.36 million people, and finance is among the largest functions moving here: FP&A, valuation support, deal support, treasury, fund accounting. These teams hire people who can show finance work, not just talk about it.
The deal market is at record size and it runs on people
963 M&A deals in India in 2025, up 41 percent. A record $23.2 billion raised by India-focused PE and VC funds, money that must become deals. 103 mainboard IPOs with 190-plus queued for 2026. Every deal needs diligence, valuation, models, structuring and materials, and the working majority of that is executed by boutique banks, merchant bankers, family offices and small advisory teams that cannot hire by pedigree.
The debt and government-scheme side has almost nobody in it
Nine crore registered MSMEs, most of whom have never spoken to a lender beyond their local branch. Thousands of NBFCs and fintech lenders whose RMs need borrowers. Government schemes most eligible companies do not know exist. In our trainers' words: in equity fundraising there are still people competing; in debt financing and scheme benefits there is no one.
US small businesses buy finance work remotely, and cannot afford Americans
33 million small businesses and around five million new business applications a year in the US, almost none of which can afford a full-time finance hire at US rates. They buy models, decks, valuations and fractional CFO help project by project, over email and video, from people who can show work samples. A US degree and a visa do not come into it.
AI collapsed the time the work takes, not the judgment it needs
A loan proposal that took six to twelve hours now takes about fifteen minutes. A list of 100 target companies with their CFOs takes five minutes. Market sizing that took days of report-hunting takes an afternoon. What is left is the part clients pay for: checking the numbers, choosing the assumptions, and putting the work in front of the right person.
Sources as cited in our August bootcamp: Grant Thornton Annual Dealtracker 2026, EY-IVCA Trendbook 2026, EY Global IPO Trends, NASSCOM-Zinnov 2026, US SBA and Census, Udyam registrations, and our trainers' own client work.
The demand exists. The supply of people who are positioned and prepared for it is small. That gap is where this bootcamp puts you, in three evenings, for nothing.
Reserve a seat for all three evenings
Free. 500 seats. 12, 13, 14 September. Joining link on WhatsApp and email.
Reserve my free seatMost people who attended did not take the next step. That is normal. It is also worth understanding why.
Nobody told us the opportunity was unclear. The market numbers were clear, the client types were clear, the skills were clear. What stops people at this point is usually one of three things. These three evenings are built around them.
"I could not see myself in it."
The examples were about somebody else. A CA in practice, an engineer, a B.Com without CA, an MBA outside the IIMs and a returning professional each need to hear where they fit first, and which of the five kinds of work is their nearest door. This time that mapping is the first hour, not a footnote.
"I did not know what to do on Monday morning."
A 6-month plan is only useful if the first week is small enough to actually start. We will show the first assignment you can do for free this month, the exact message that gets a reply, and what to build before you send it.
"I thought I would have to quit, or pay, before I could find out if this is for me."
You do not. The work we show below is done by people alongside jobs and practices, from cities without a single investment bank. The first two or three assignments are free by design, and they are your track record. This page and these three evenings cost nothing.
Every deal has two sides. Somebody has to connect them, check the numbers and write the case.
Strip away the vocabulary and this is the whole business. On one side sit companies that need money. On the other sit people and funds with money they are under pressure to deploy. Neither side finds the other by accident.
Companies that need money
- Founders raising a first or next round
- Traditional SMEs formalising and scaling, most of whom have never spoken to a professional investor
- Promoters selling all or part of a business
- Mid-size firms buying a competitor
- Companies preparing to list, including on the SME exchanges
- Businesses that need a loan, a working capital line or revenue-based financing, and do not know who to ask
The person in the middle
Finds both sides. Checks the numbers. Values the business. Structures the terms. Writes the case that closes it.
That seat is corporate finance. It is a set of skills, and every one of them is learnable.
People and funds with money
- PE and VC funds with committed capital they are paid to deploy
- Angel investors and syndicates
- Family offices and HNIs
- Banks, NBFCs and fintech lenders whose relationship managers carry lending targets
- Strategic buyers hunting acquisitions
- Public market investors at listing
Five kinds of work sit between the two sides: due diligence (find what the numbers are hiding), valuation (decide what the business is worth), financial modelling (project how the deal plays out), deal structuring (shape terms that survive) and investor and lender materials (make the case). None of them requires a specific degree. All of them can be shown. Which is why the next section exists.
Six short lessons from our team. This is what the evenings feel like, and what the work looks like when a client pays for it.
Each one is a real case or a live demo. Under every video we have written what you are watching, who pays for that piece of work, and what it pays, using only figures our trainers state on camera or in the bootcamp itself.
How Abhyuday valued an 8 crore revenue startup
An edtech company with offline centres and hard-to-get licences, considered as an acquisition. Three divisions valued separately: B2B against comparable deals, B2C offline against the Byju's and Aakash multiple with a haircut, then aggregated. Base case ₹19 crore, bear ₹14 crore, bull ₹24 crore. Every assumption is explained, and the spreadsheet is shared.
- Who pays for this
- The acquirer, or the founder raising money, or a board that will not approve a deal without a number it can defend. Often through a boutique advisory or valuation firm.
- What it takes
- In his words: "All you need is research into the industry and elementary calculations which you can perform on a spreadsheet." No quant background.
Why a good tiffin business lost its investors, and the numbers that would have won them
A home-cooked meal subscription in Bandra West. Friends said no because nobody could show the return. The lesson builds the market size properly: the right category (home-style meals, not all of food delivery), a serviceable market of about 80,000 households, and an obtainable revenue of roughly ₹3 crore a year from the kitchen's real capacity. With the AI prompts used, and the rule that every source link gets checked.
- Who pays for this
- Founders raising money. Market size is the first question in every pitch, and it is usually done badly. It is sold as part of a pitch deck and projections engagement.
A loan proposal in 15 minutes, and how to reach the bankers who need borrowers
Every bank has a team that gives loans and a team that recovers them. The first team carries targets and needs creditworthy businesses. This lesson shows how to draft the six-section loan proposal with AI in about 15 minutes instead of six to twelve hours, how revenue-based financing works (borrow ₹1 crore, repay ₹1.13 crore from a share of monthly revenue), and how to find relationship managers on LinkedIn without a premium account. The presenter is a lawyer, not a finance graduate, and says so.
- Who pays for this
- The business, through a finder's fee and your professional fee once the loan closes. The lender too: a lead-generation fee of about 0.5 to 1 percent of the deal size is common, because you just helped an RM meet a target.
The one bridge cheque that doubled Y Combinator's stake in a startup
A SAFE is the standard way early money goes into a startup: no interest, no maturity, converts to equity later. Using YC's own public template, this lesson walks through a founder who took a quick $150,000 bridge on a $6 million cap, and how a most-favoured-nation clause in the original agreement then converted YC's $375,000 at that cap instead of the round price. Which terms are negotiable (cap, discount, MFN) and which are not.
- Who pays for this
- Founders raising their first cheque, and the angels writing it. Nobody on either side wants to sign a clause they have not modelled. This is fractional CFO and fundraising advisory work.
200 family offices back Indian startups. Here is how to write to one, and the one thing never to ask for.
A tracker of 200-plus investors: 62 family offices in Mumbai, 44 in Delhi NCR, 25 in Bengaluru. The method is simple: find the person, not the office, and introduce them to two or three good businesses rather than asking for anything. Includes the exact message. The rule that matters: "Please do not ask them for jobs."
- Why it matters
- Investors invest in teams they have known over time, not in decks. Two or three good introductions build the kind of trust that later turns into deal fees, referrals or a role. This is the capital funnel we teach after the opportunity funnel.
Finding pre-Series A founders on Product Hunt and the Y Combinator directory, and the message that gets one reply in ten
A live walk from a Product Hunt category to a founder's LinkedIn, and through YC's 2025 batch where founders are listed on the page itself. Target under-20-person companies before Series A. The full pitch is read out: fundraising help, projections, an investor outreach system, non-dilutive financing options, a financial MIS, "at a fraction of the cost that you would pay someone in the US", in return for a review and a 15-minute call. Expect one or two replies per ten messages, and do not get disheartened.
- What it pays
- Stated on camera: even at $20 an hour for three to four hours a day, about ₹1 lakh a month extra, while US rates for the same work run far higher. Skills first, then rates.
- Networking with Indian startups (Shark Tank, Startup India, 98 accelerators)
- Building your opportunity funnel by networking with CFOs (100 companies in five minutes)
- Relationship managers at banks, NBFCs and fintechs
- Merchant bankers and angel investors, with the full pricing model
- Bond characteristics (a FINRA Series 65 sample)
If that looks like work you would want to be paid for
The three evenings go deeper on each of these, live, with Q&A, and end with a 6-month order of what to build first.
Reserve my free seat Free. 500 seats. 12, 13, 14 September.Seven kinds of clients, two kinds of employers. You will not be short of people to write to.
Most people assume corporate finance work only exists inside a large bank. The working majority of it is bought by clients who cannot afford, and do not need, a full-time finance team.
| Client | What they need | How you get paid |
|---|---|---|
| Startups | Pitch decks, projections, market sizing, unit economics, valuation, investor outreach, term sheet and SAFE help, use-of-funds plans | Project fees; retainers; a finder's fee of 2 to 4 percent when a raise closes |
| Traditional SMEs | Loans, working capital, revenue-based financing, government schemes they do not know they qualify for, loan-ready financials | Success fees of 1.5 to 3 percent on loans, 2 to 5 percent on schemes (minimum around ₹25,000), fixed fees for project reports |
| VCs and angels | Deal sourcing, first-cut screening, financial diligence, monitoring investee data, finding exits | Retainers, per-deal fees, and relationships that turn into roles |
| Family offices and HNIs | Good opportunities, research, portfolio monitoring, sometimes help setting up the office itself | Deal fees; roles; introductions to founders who then hire you |
| Banks, NBFCs, fintech lenders | Creditworthy borrowers to meet lending targets; loan proposals; industry analysis their RMs struggle to write | Lead-generation fee of about 0.5 to 1 percent of deal size from the lender, plus the borrower's fee |
| Merchant bankers and boutique IBs | Companies fit for an SME IPO (over ₹10 crore revenue, over 10 percent profitability), models, comps, pitch books, diligence sections | Referral fees; analyst roles; in the bootcamp's words, a SEBI-licensed merchant banker was paying ₹1 to 2 lakh a month and could not find people |
| US startups and small businesses | Models, fundraising decks, valuations, a financial MIS, fractional CFO help, remotely | Hourly or project fees in dollars; $20 an hour is the floor our trainers suggest starting at |
| Employers | Transaction advisory and diligence teams, boutique and mid-market IBs, corporate development desks, and the finance functions of global banks' India centres | Salaried roles, entered on the strength of work you can show |
What this pays depends on the rung you are on. Here is the ladder as our trainers describe it, with the caveats left in.
Proof, not pay
- Learn one skill first: a 3-statement model, a valuation, a loan proposal
- Do the first two or three assignments free for founders or SMEs you can already reach
- Collect three or four written testimonials
First paid work, on the side
- Government scheme and loan work for SMEs
- Modelling, valuation and deck assignments for startups
- Ten outreach messages a day, one new business a week
A second income or a first role
- Two or three retainer clients, or your first US client at $20 an hour and up
- Or apply into diligence, valuation and transaction advisory teams with a portfolio in hand
Deal fees and the manager rung
- Finder's fees of 2 to 4 percent on equity raises you help close
- Lead-generation fees from lenders on every referral
- Owning workstreams, then scoping engagements, if you take the employed route
These are ranges our trainers state in the bootcamp and in the videos above, plus pay bands from career and coaching sources that have not been audited. Treat them as a direction of travel, not a quote. What you earn depends on the work you can show, the city, the client, and how many messages you are willing to send before the first reply.
The plan behind this ladder is the third evening
What to build first, in what order, and how to put it in front of the people who pay. Free to attend.
Reserve my free seatTwo hours a day. One to learn, one to reach out. From wherever you are.
This is how the people in the next section started, and it is the only pace we teach. Corporate finance work travels over email and video calls. Deal advisory does not care whether you sit in Gurgaon, Jamnagar or Bilaspur, and the US founders in the videos above cannot tell either.
Alongside a job or practice
CAs add deal work on top of existing clients, who already trust them with their numbers. Engineers, accountants and MBAs start with one skill and one free assignment. Nobody in our stories resigned first.
Remotely, from India
US small businesses and startups cannot afford full-time finance hires and buy the work project by project. The same models, decks and valuations sell in Dubai, Singapore and London. No visa involved.
Without paying anyone first
Every list in the videos is free: Shark Tank, Startup India, Product Hunt, the YC directory, chittorgarh.com, a family-office tracker, LinkedIn without a premium account. The first assignments are free too, on purpose. Proof before price.
The map, the work and the plan. Condensed from the August bootcamp, with the demos kept and the repetition removed.
The map
- What corporate finance actually is: debt, equity, the rounds, and where fees come from
- The seven client types and the two employer types, and which of them hire people like you first
- Why boutique firms, lenders and family offices do not check for a CFA, with what they check instead
- Where each background in the room fits, and its nearest door
- Live: finding startups, CFOs and family offices, with the messages
The work
- Valuation on real facts: methods, multiples, base, bear and bull
- Market sizing that survives an investor's first question
- Debt finance: the loan proposal, revenue-based financing, and the RMs who need you
- SAFEs, term sheets and the six deal structures, with the deals they came from
- Which of the five kinds of work you can start producing this month
The 6-month plan
- What to build first, second and third, and what to skip
- The opportunity funnel before the capital funnel, and why the order matters
- Pricing: what to charge for schemes, loans, models and decks, and when to move to retainers
- The four certifications that take months, not years, and how to sequence them
- How our learners did it alongside jobs, with their numbers
Reserve a seat for all three evenings
Free. 500 seats. Joining link on WhatsApp and email.
Reserve my free seatEverything you get for ₹0, and what the same things cost when bought separately.
We are listing this the way we would want it listed for us: item by item, with the anchor for each one taken from our own scripts or from what the market charges.
A map of who buys corporate finance work, five kinds of work shown live, and a plan to build proof of it in six months alongside your job.
The work on this page is done today by a B.Com from Indore, a 19-year veteran in Mumbai, a CA Final candidate in Bengaluru, and a lawyer with no finance background. None has a CFA.
Two hours a day: one to learn, one to reach out. First free assignment this month. First paid assignment is the target for month three. ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh a month on the side is the six-month target our trainers set.
In the words of the person who structured a ₹9 crore acquisition in the scripts: "I just used Class XII maths and some Excel." The hard part is sending ten messages a day. We show you what to send.
500 free seats. First come, first served. The sessions are live and capped so the Q&A stays usable. When the seats go, registration closes.
Reserve a seat for all three evenings
Free. 12, 13, 14 September. Joining link on WhatsApp and email.
Reserve my free seatFour of our corporate finance learners, in the numbers they reported to us.
No two started from the same place. None of them has a CFA. None of them moved to Mumbai to do it.
Anjali Runwal
Joined in May 2023. Our team helped with her CV and mock interviews. By December 2023 she was working remotely as a financial analyst in the founder's office of a US conglomerate's AI fintech startup, and reported a 200 percent salary increase within three months.
Kaushank Khandwala
Needed remote, flexible work. Took a 100-day LinkedIn challenge from zero to 3,000-plus followers, picked up modelling, valuation, benchmarking and investor-note assignments at ₹10,000 to ₹30,000 each, and now earns ₹35,000 a month plus 2.5 to 3 percent on funds raised for a Gurgaon fintech's pitch deck and storytelling. Venture Partner at ViksitBharat.io.
Avikshith Rai
Built three long-term US clients doing financial modelling, pitch decks, ratio analysis, market sizing and investor outreach. Went on to join Indeanta as CFO and Strategic Investment Partner, at ₹75,000-plus a month and rising.
Vijayathithyan
Works with a Bengaluru firm and, on the side, holds a ₹2 lakh a year retainer with a Chennai AI company that has a US presence, plus five or six medtech and fintech clients for whom he sets up finance functions for their Indian and US entities.
Figures as reported by the learners to SkillArbitrage and shared in the bootcamp. Individual results vary with effort, background and the work you put in front of people.
Abhyuday Agarwal
Co-founder and COO, SkillArbitrage (Addictive Learning Technology Limited, listed on the NSE SME exchange in 2024). He has spent twelve years on the company-side of fundraising and deals, which is the side most trainers have never sat on.
- Built the company's first investor deck in 2018 with guidance from Naukri founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani; it drew a ₹1 crore offer and interest from the founder of India's first homegrown private equity fund
- Has pitched over 500 times with his co-founders, through VC rejections, a private equity offer they turned down, a pre-IPO round that overshot its target ten times, and an IPO oversubscribed more than 270 times
- Mentored at an angel network; the 8 crore valuation you can watch above is his own acquisition analysis
- Teaches the valuation and market-sizing evenings himself, on the numbers, on screen
Questions people ask before reserving a seat.
I attended in August. Why would I sit through it again?
Because this is a different session, not a replay. The August bootcamp spent a lot of time on why the market is open. This one spends most of its time on the work itself and on the first six months, and it starts by mapping each background to its nearest door. If the videos on this page taught you something, the evenings will.
Is it really free? What is the catch?
It is free. All three evenings, the notes and templates, the WhatsApp group and the certificate, with no card required. The only thing we ask is that you attend live. At the end of evening three we describe our paid programme for those who want structured help; you can leave before that, and nothing before it depends on it.
Do I need a CA, CFA, MBA or an IIM tag?
No. Boutique deal firms, lenders, family offices and US founders test the work directly: can you value a business, build the model, run the diligence, write the case. That is why this page shows the work first. The four certifications we do recommend take months, not years.
Can I do this alongside my job or practice?
Yes, and that is the only version we teach: two hours a day, one to learn and one to reach out. Every learner on this page started that way. When and whether to go full time is a decision you make later, with income already coming in.
I am in a small city with no investment banks. Does that matter?
Deal advisory travels over email and video calls. Our learners are in Indore, Jamnagar, Bilaspur and Bengaluru, and their clients are in Gurgaon, Chennai, Dubai and the US. On the debt and government-scheme side in particular, local SMEs in your own city are the opportunity.
I have no finance background at all. Is this too early?
Evening one assumes you know nothing about how deals work. If you can read a P&L, or are willing to learn to, you can follow all three evenings. The debt finance lesson above is taught by a lawyer who says on camera that she is not from a finance background.
Live or recorded?
Live, on all three evenings, with Q&A. Live only, by design. You keep the session notes and templates afterwards.
Will this get me into deal work?
The three evenings give you the map, the work and a 6-month plan for building proof. What you build with it is your work, and results depend on it. That is exactly why we spend an evening on what to build and in what order, because proof is what convinces the other side.
Three evenings. Nine hours. ₹0. Watch the work, then build your own.
12, 13, 14 September. Saturday and Sunday 6 to 9 PM, Monday 7 to 10 PM IST. You get the joining link on WhatsApp and email.
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