The people who would actually run your engagement
KayOne is a management advisory firm working exclusively with founder-led companies between $2 million and $50 million. We embed senior financial judgment into the business rather than delivering it from the outside.
- Firm
- Management advisory
- We work with
- Founder-led, $2M to $50M
- Based in
- Chennai, working across India
- Engagement
- Monthly retainer, no lock-in
By the numbers
How we think
- Numbers should drive decisions, not justify them. Most finance functions arrive after the strategy is set, to validate what leadership already decided. We show up before the decision, when the thinking still matters.
- Embedded, not outsourced. We do not send monthly reports from the outside. We join your leadership conversations, sit in on the hard calls and challenge your assumptions. Proximity is the whole point.
- The work does not have an end date. Short engagements produce short-term thinking. Cash, capital structure, scale and exit do not have a project end date, so neither do we.
Who you would be working with
Kishore Dasaka, Co-founder and Director
- Fractional CFO with 18+ years across finance strategy, M&A, fundraising and cross-border advisory.
- FCA, ACMA (UK), CISA, CPA (Australia), CVA and Registered Valuer.
Priya Muralidharan, Co-founder
- Chartered Accountant and IBBI-registered Valuer with 10+ years, leading valuation and transaction advisory.
- Previously audit at EY.
And the bench behind them
- Vishnu Prasad, Associate Vice President - financial modelling, valuations and due diligence.
- Rajha Mohan, Associate Vice President - accounting operations, compliance and ERP systems.
- KayOne is a firm, not a freelancer. When your advisor is in a board meeting, another senior mind is already across your numbers.
KayOne brings a true partnership approach to our organization, and the founders consider them as a part of the leadership team. We have totally entrusted our finance (not just accounting) woes to them!
Subramanian Viswanathan Co-Founder and CEO, Disprz
What an engagement actually looks like
Monthly retainer, month to month by default, no long-term contract and no exit penalty. Senior-led from start to finish: the people who pitch are the people who do the work, and the same senior team stays on the engagement after you sign. We keep the relationship because the work is worth it, not because you are locked into it.
More of the work
Bring us the decision you are stuck on.
30 minutes with a senior partner. Tell us what is breaking and we will come prepared.
Talk to a Senior CFO