Amit is one of Australia’s leading advisers to start-up and scale-up businesses in Australia. With a keen interest in early-stage businesses, Amit's focus has been working with founders to plan and strategize the optimal business structure, capital funding and commercialisation options. He works with founders to build out these fundamentals as they scale their businesses, leading to the practical implementation of tax, accounting and government Incentives procedures and workflows that set a business up for success. Amit previously founded The Startup Shop and Get Grants, which together worked with over 350 startups and offered mentoring to many more through programs such as UTS Startups, H2 Accelerator, Westpac Fueld, UNSW and co-working spaces Fishburners and Stone & Chalk. Amit has held board and treasury roles for several organisations in the startup ecosystem including the Technology Council of Australia, Fishburners, StartupAus as well as many private scale up companies. Amit has also been involved in many M&A transactions on both the buy and sell sides. Amit's problem-solving approach has helped to facilitate several deals, working closely with founders to secure Investment, secondary placements or to navigate acquisitions and oversee the deal negotiations and due diligence.