About
Two backgrounds built for this problem.
GS Partners is built on two complementary backgrounds, commercial diligence and financial rigor, brought to a different kind of question: not whether a deal is worth doing, but where a business stands against the leaders in its category.
Origin
Where the idea came from
The idea started at a conversation about vetting a group investment the way a private equity fund would, at a fraction of the scale. We realised the same diligence discipline applies just as well to a question most founders never get answered properly: where, precisely, is a competitor beating you, and what would it take to close it.
Founders
Mridul Gupta
Commercial & diligence
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi Technological University, followed by an MBA at XLRI. Two years at Bain & Company advising a $19B Middle Eastern utility and a $900B investment fund, a summer at BCG sizing a ₹4.4B B2B sales gap for a telecom major, and current work at YCP India on a private-equity case for a Japanese bank's investment into Indonesia. Brings commercial and operational due-diligence experience: the discipline of stress-testing a business case before money moves.
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Shrey Singh
Credit & structuring
B.Com from the University of Delhi and CA Intermediate from ICAI, followed by an MBA at XLRI. Twenty months as an audit assistant at the family firm, B K Singh & Associates, uncovering over ₹1.6Cr in compliance discrepancies and recovering ₹3.2L+ in tax savings for clients, and a venture-capital internship sourcing deals across the semiconductor and robotics industries. Now in Deutsche Bank's Corporate Banking division, underwriting credit and structuring financing solutions for corporate clients. Brings credit and financial-structuring rigor: the discipline of underwriting a number before it's trusted.
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We treat a competitive read the way a deal gets underwritten: checked before it's trusted.
Every finding is built from sources you could check yourself, not insider access.
No generic strategy decks. One specific, sized opportunity per engagement.
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