CA Lakshmi Narayan
Founder & Managing Partner
FCA with 24 years across Big-4 tax practice and enterprise compliance. Built Vaishnavi from a 3-person practice into India's most trusted compliance partner.
Since 2009
Built quietly. Trusted publicly.
Fifteen years, eighteen cities, eight hundred and fifty clients — and one consistent principle.
250+
Businesses served
99.8%
On-time filing rate
Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) · Bidar · Hyderabad
EPF
ESI
GST
TDS
PT
ITR
Compliance
Shield
Shield
About Vaishnavi Consultant
25 years of trust. Countless businesses served.
Founded in 2018 in Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Vaishnavi is a digital-first compliance practice serving 250+ businesses across Karnataka, Telangana and the rest of India.
Delivering expert Payroll, EPF, ESIC, GST, TDS and Statutory Compliance services with the accuracy, consistency and professionalism that businesses depend on — backed by 25+ years of combined practitioner experience.
- Headquartered in Kalaburagi · serving clients pan-India
- Led by chartered accountants with 25+ years of practice
- Dedicated relationship manager for every client
- 24-hour SLA on all compliance queries
- Zero-penalty guarantee on timely filings
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CA Lakshmi Narayan
Founder & Managing Partner
24+ yrs
Practice
FCA
ICAI
A note from the founder
"Compliance is not paperwork. It is the operating system of trust."
When we started Vaishnavi in Kalaburagi back in 2018, every client we onboarded had the same quiet anxiety — "What am I missing?" A notice. A penalty. A small filing slip that would surface six quarters later.
Drawing on more than 25 years of combined practitioner experience, that anxiety is exactly what we were built to remove. Every dashboard, SLA, and four-eye review we operate is engineered to answer that question before it ever has to be asked.
We do not chase volume. We chase trust. And we measure ourselves not by how many filings we send out, but by how predictable, calm, and audit-ready our 250+ clients' compliance becomes.
— CA Lakshmi Narayan, Founder
Headquartered in Bengaluru
One office in 2009. Eighteen cities today.
Bengaluru · Mumbai · Hyderabad · Chennai · Pune — and twelve regional desks supporting every state of India.
Our journey
From a 3-person practice to India's most trusted compliance partner.
Fifteen years, eighteen cities, eight hundred and fifty clients — and one consistent principle.
- 2018
Founded in Kalaburagi
Started in Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) with a focus on Payroll, EPF and ESIC compliance for local SMEs.
- 2019
First 50 Clients
Onboarded 50 retainer clients across manufacturing, retail and education sectors.
- 2020
Pan-Karnataka Reach
Extended servicing to Bidar and Yadgir clusters; navigated the GST and lockdown filing waves end-to-end for every client.
- 2021
Cross-Border into Telangana
Opened service coverage into Hyderabad; began handling multi-state PF, ESIC and PT for distributed teams.
- 2022
Digital Compliance Workflows
Moved every client off spreadsheets onto an internal dashboard for real-time filing status.
- 2023
150+ Clients Milestone
Crossed 150 active clients with zero penalty incidents for the year. Added Income Tax Advisory practice.
- 2024
Virtual CFO Practice Launched
Introduced fractional CFO services for growth-stage businesses across Karnataka and Telangana.
- 2026
Digital-First Expansion
Crossed 250+ active clients across 3 cities. Launched online portal to begin serving businesses pan-India.
Client success in numbers
Outcomes you can put in a board pack.
We publish our delivery metrics every quarter. These are 12-month rolling figures across our active book of business.
250+
Active clients
25+
Years of practice
12,000+
Filings completed
10+
In-house professionals
0
Penalty incidents
24h
Query response SLA
Leadership
The CAs, lawyers, and technologists behind every filing.
Decades of Big-4, Mercer, and CFO experience — answering your team's questions in plain English.
CA Sridhar Venkatesh
Partner — Direct Tax & Audit
FCA, DISA, ex-Deloitte. Specialises in transfer pricing, M&A tax structuring, and statutory audits for listed entities.
CA Meera Krishnamurthy
Partner — GST & Indirect Tax
LLB, FCA. Argued ITAT cases worth ₹400Cr+. Authored two reference texts on GST refund mechanisms.
Rakesh Bhatia
Partner — Payroll & Labour Law
20 years across Mercer & Aon. Designed payroll architectures for 50+ unicorns covering 100K+ employees.
Aishwarya Rao
Head of Compliance Technology
Built the Vaishnavi Dashboard from scratch. Ex-Stripe, ex-Razorpay. Bridges deep CA workflows with software-grade UX.
Prasad Iyengar
Head of Virtual CFO Practice
Ex-CFO of two NSE-listed companies. Leads our fractional CFO engagements across 60+ growth-stage clients.
80+ CAs · 40+ specialists
The people behind every filing.
Certifications & accreditations
Audited credentials. Independently verifiable.
Every claim we make is backed by a registration number, an audit trail, or both.
ICAI Registered Firm
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
010742S
ISO 27001:2022
Information Security Management
IS 745120
ISO 9001:2015
Quality Management System
QMS 482910
MSME Registered
Ministry of MSME
UDYAM-KR-03-0021947
GST Suvidha Provider
Goods & Services Tax Network
GSP-AS18
ICSI Affiliate Firm
Institute of Company Secretaries of India
P201930KA01200
Awards & achievements
Recognised by the industries, we serve.
A handful of honours from the past few years. We are most proud of the renewal rate from our clients.
2024
Compliance Firm of the Year — South India
India CA Excellence Awards
2024
Top 50 Tax Consulting Firms in India
Business Today
2023
Best Workplace in Professional Services
Great Place To Work
2023
GST Excellence Award
PHD Chamber of Commerce
2022
Emerging Consulting Brand
Economic Times Iconic Awards
2021
Innovation in RegTech
CII India RegTech Summit
Partners & associations
Integrated with the platforms your team already uses.
Zoho
Tally Solutions
Razorpay
Keka HR
GreytHR
Darwinbox
QuickBooks
SAP
ICAI
NASSCOM
FICCI
CII
Zoho
Tally Solutions
Razorpay
Keka HR
GreytHR
Darwinbox
QuickBooks
SAP
ICAI
NASSCOM
FICCI
CII
Trust & security
Built like the banks we audit.
Your payroll, salary, and tax data carries enormous regulatory weight. We treat its security as a board-level mandate.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
All client data is encrypted with bank-grade algorithms across our application, database, and backups.
ISO 27001:2022 certified
Audited information-security management system covering access control, vendor risk, and incident response.
Role-based access · MFA mandatory
Every consultant logs in with hardware-key MFA. Client data is partitioned by engagement and least-privilege.
Data resident in India
All primary and disaster-recovery storage is hosted in Indian AWS regions (Mumbai · Hyderabad).
Continuous monitoring
24×7 SIEM, anomaly detection on financial data exports, and a documented incident-response playbook.
Audit trail on every change
Every filing draft, edit, and approval is logged immutably. Clients can pull a full activity export at any time.
Work with us
Two decades of practice. One forty-five-minute call.
The fastest way to understand how Vaishnavi works is a quick conversation. We'll do most of the listening.