We acted as legal counsel to Elev8 Capital (lead investor), in their participation in Series D funding round of Smallcase Technologies Private Limited. Smallcase is engaged in the business of (a) building/operating online investment platforms which allow users to place orders to purchase/sell/track a basket of securities. (b) building/operating APIs and SDKs that enable any online and mobile platforms to offer transactions of securities to their users; (c) building/operating SaaS based platforms to enable individuals and entities to create, showcase and market baskets of securities to their clients.
The transaction team was led by Pooranima Hariharan, Partner; with the support from Aarthi Sashikumar, Principal Associate; Abhinav Sankaranarayanan, Senior Associate; Aiyush Gupta, Senior Associate; Anish Meduri, Associate and Mahek Khandelwal, Associate.
Lakshmi Prakash, Partner; with the support from Ann Tomy, Associate; and Maria Borges, Associate; assisted on FinTech aspects of the transactions.
Rutu Gandhi, Partner; with the support from Aastha Vyas, Associate; and Unnati Maheshwari, Associate; advised on Securities Regulatory Practice (SRP) related aspects of the transaction.
Arya Tripathy, Partner; advised on intellectual property, information technology and data privacy related aspects of the transaction.