https://www.kautilya-pe.com/ https://www.kautilya-pe.com/opengraph-image Kautilya | Buy-Side M&A Advisory Kautilya builds proprietary acquisition pipelines for PE, VC, and family office buyers. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/icon.svg Kautilya Logo Official logo of Kautilya, buy-side M&A advisory firm based in Mumbai, India. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/portfolio https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/inspire3.png Inspire3 — $1.8M Digital Wellness Portfolio Full forensic due diligence on a $1.8M digital wellness portfolio — 30,134 transactions audited across 19 websites in under 15 days. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/borderless.png Borderless — UK Immigration Advisory Kautilya built a proprietary deal pipeline in the UK immigration advisory market where almost no businesses are formally listed for sale. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/dino-games.jpeg Dino Games — $39K Mobile Game Acquisition Off-market acquisition of a cash-flow-positive mobile game with 8 million installs. Closed in 8 weeks. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/runify.png Runify — $110K Mobile App Acquisition Mobile app acquisition structured with only $20K deployed at close. Remaining $90K tied to verified performance milestones. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/team https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/aum.jpg Aum Thakarkar — Chief Analyst, Kautilya Aum Thakarkar leads research and analysis across the firm, delivering high-conviction insights on markets and acquisition opportunities. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/aditya.jpeg Aditya Negi — Tech Support, Kautilya Aditya Negi provides technical assistance and ensures smooth operation of systems for clients and internal teams at Kautilya. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/darshana.jpg Darshana Yadav — Analyst, Kautilya Darshana Yadav supports deal origination with comprehensive sector screening and data aggregation. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-200k.jpeg How We Closed $200K Worth of Deals in 6 Months Five advisory deals, an eleven-person team, and the shift from buying to advising. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-acquire.jpeg My Morning Routine Is Looking at Acquire.com for 30 Minutes Five practical strategies for filtering quality deals from marketplace noise. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-college.jpeg 10 Reasons Why Now Is the Best Time to Start a Business in College Reduced startup costs, AI tools, and a generation-wide shift toward entrepreneurship. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-thisisbiz.jpeg How to Find Diamonds in the Rough The best acquisitions are businesses that previous owners failed to monetize. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-zero.jpeg Edition Zero: How This Is Bizness Began The origin story of a weekly newsletter built around buying small businesses. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/borderless https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/borderless.png Borderless — UK Immigration M&A Deal advisory in UK immigration advisory sector. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/borderless/exhausting-market.png UK Immigration Advisory Market Analysis Market mapping showing the exhausting search for acquisition targets in UK immigration advisory. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/borderless/maket-no-deals.png UK Immigration Market — No Deals Available Analysis showing the lack of formally listed businesses in UK immigration advisory. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/borderless/money-annualised.png Annualised Revenue Pipeline — Borderless Annualised revenue pipeline generated through Kautilya's proprietary outreach in UK immigration advisory. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/200k-deals https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-200k.jpeg Closing $200K in Deals How Kautilya closed $200K worth of advisory deals in 6 months. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/200k/architecture.png Deal Architecture — $200K Portfolio Architecture of five advisory deals closed in six months. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/200k/five-deals.png Five Advisory Deals — Kautilya Summary of five deals closed by Kautilya's advisory practice. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/200k/hidden-channel.png Hidden Deal Sourcing Channels Off-market channels used to source advisory deals. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/deal-sourcing https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-acquire.jpeg Deal Sourcing on Acquire.com Five practical strategies for filtering quality deals from marketplace noise. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/deal-sourcing/crm.png Deal Sourcing CRM CRM setup for tracking acquisition targets and outreach. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/deal-sourcing/discipline.png Deal Sourcing Discipline The systematic approach to daily deal review and outreach. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/deal-sourcing/morning.png Morning Deal Review Routine Daily routine for reviewing deals on Acquire.com. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/deal-sourcing/thousand.png Reviewing 1000 Deals What reviewing 1,000+ deals teaches you about quality filtering. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/diamonds https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-thisisbiz.jpeg Finding Diamonds in the Rough The best acquisitions are businesses previous owners failed to monetize. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/diamonds/uncut.png Uncut Diamond — Hidden Business Value Identifying undermonetized businesses with acquisition potential. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/diamonds/zeroto.png Zero to Value — Monetization Gap How to spot and close the monetization gap in acquisition targets. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/search-funds https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/search-fund/evol_of_search_fund.png Evolution of the Search Fund Model How the Stanford search fund model evolved into a distinct asset class. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/search-fund/explaining_gap.png The Search Fund Gap Understanding the valuation gap in search fund acquisitions. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/search-fund/how_search_source_deal.png How Search Funds Source Deals Proprietary deal sourcing methodology used by search fund operators. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/search-fund/when_2walk_away.png When to Walk Away from a Deal Red flags and criteria for walking away from an acquisition. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/search-fund/solo_vs_partnered.png Solo vs Partnered Search Fund Comparing solo and partnered search fund structures. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/smartprompt https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/smart-prompt/300.png SmartPrompt — 300 Deals Evaluated 300 opportunities evaluated before closing SmartPrompt. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/smart-prompt/discount.png SmartPrompt — 200x Discount to Market GPT-native education platform acquired at a 200x discount to market comparables. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/smart-prompt/kill.png SmartPrompt — Two Deals Killed Two deals were killed mid-diligence before the right asset was found. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/sourcely https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/sourcely/logo_sourcely.png Sourcely — AI Student Tool Sourcely: AI student tool acquired for $4K with $500 MRR, grown to $4.5K MRR in five months. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/sourcely/essay.png Sourcely Essay Feature Essay writing feature of Sourcely AI student tool. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/sourcely/twitter.png Sourcely Twitter Growth Social media growth of Sourcely after acquisition. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/edition-zero https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-zero.jpeg Edition Zero — This Is Bizness Origin The origin story of This Is Bizness newsletter and Kautilya. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/edition-zero/conviction.png Conviction in Acquisition Entrepreneurship The conviction required to pursue acquisition entrepreneurship full-time. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/edition-zero/zero.png Starting from Zero Starting an acquisition fund from zero capital and building from first principles. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/pocket-fund https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/pocket-fund/100k.png Pocket Fund — $100K Target The $100K acquisition target for the student-led Pocket Fund. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/pocket-fund/cycle.png Acquisition Cycle — Pocket Fund The buy-operate-sell cycle that powers the Pocket Fund model. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/pocket-fund/search.png Search Process — Pocket Fund How Pocket Fund searches for and evaluates acquisition targets. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/college-startups https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/blogs/edition-college.jpeg College Startups — Best Time to Build Ten reasons why now is the best time to start a business in college. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/college-startups/best-time-build.png Why Now Is the Best Time Data showing why college is the optimal time to start a business. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/college-startups/start-now.png Start Now — College Entrepreneur The case for starting immediately rather than waiting for the right moment. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/college-startups/ten-jobs.png Ten Jobs AI Will Replace How AI is changing the job market and why entrepreneurship is the answer. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/pocket-deals https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/stories/micro-saas/bigpurpose.png Pocket Deals — Micro-SaaS for Autism Support Breaking down a niche iOS app listed at $15,000 targeting the autism support market. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/inspire3 https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/inspire3.png Inspire3 — Digital Wellness Portfolio Full forensic due diligence on a $1.8M digital wellness portfolio — 19 websites, 30,134 transactions audited. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/dino-games https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/dino-games.jpeg Dino Games — Mobile Game Acquisition Off-market acquisition of a cash-flow-positive mobile game with 8 million installs. https://www.kautilya-pe.com/stories/runify https://www.kautilya-pe.com/images/portfolio-logos/runify.png Runify — Mobile App Acquisition A $110K mobile app deal where the buyer only had to put $20K in cash at closing.