Startup HR & Recruiting · India

Hire the right people.
Build the right team.
From Day 1.

HRish helps Indian startups recruit the right people and build HR systems that protect and scale — POSH compliance, payroll setup, hiring frameworks — handled by senior HR founders, not agencies.

We're not just building HRish. We are HRish — at least for our first 10 clients.

18+
Yrs HR Experience
10
Founding Slots Left
0
Interns or Agencies
We handle
POSH Compliance Offer Letters & Contracts Payroll Setup Hiring Frameworks Performance Systems HR Policies
What We Do

Everything a startup needs
from HR — nothing it doesn't.

We work across functions and sectors. SaaS in Bengaluru or D2C in Chennai — the hiring and compliance challenges are the same.

Most Requested
🎯

Targeted Recruiting

We source, screen, and shortlist candidates for tech and non-tech roles. No job board blasting — curated pipelines for your exact brief.

📐

Role & JD Design

We define what you actually need before you search — must-haves, red flags, salary benchmarks, and a JD that attracts the right people.

🧪

Interview & Assessment Frameworks

Structured guides, culture-fit assessments, and reference checks built around your specific role — not copied from the internet.

🤝

Offer Design & Onboarding

Offer structuring, CTC benchmarking, and a 30-60-90 day onboarding plan so new hires ramp fast and don't regret joining.

🧭

Founder Hiring Coaching

First-time hiring? We coach you through when to hire, who first, and how to avoid the most common early-stage people mistakes.

🏗️

HR Infrastructure Setup

Employment contracts, leave policies, HRIS setup, appraisal cycles — the foundation every startup needs before it hits 20 people.

India Compliance — Done Right

Non-compliance isn't just a legal risk — it's a talent risk. We make sure your startup is covered from day one.

POSH Act Compliance Employment Contracts Payroll & PF/ESI Setup Gratuity & Leave Policy Offer Letter Templates ESOP Policy Drafting HR Audit Disciplinary Procedures
Why HRish

Most startups hire fast.
The right ones hire right.

A bad hire at the founding stage costs you 3–6 months of salary, lost momentum, and team trust. Most startups make this mistake because they don't have the HR infrastructure to hire well.

HRish gives every Indian startup — regardless of sector or tech stack — access to senior recruiting and HR expertise that was previously only available to well-funded companies.

We don't send you a junior consultant. We don't hand you a template and disappear. We sit in your business and deliver systems that actually work at your stage.

01

Senior-Only Delivery

Every engagement is handled directly by the founders. No handoffs to juniors mid-project.

02

Sector-Agnostic

SaaS, D2C, fintech, healthtech — we recruit across every startup category without bias.

03

India-Specific

POSH, PF, gratuity, fixed-term contracts — we know the compliance landscape so you don't have to.

04

Outcome-Driven

Clear deliverables, defined timelines, measurable results. Not open-ended retainers with no output.

Two founders.
One bar: it has to work.

We personally handle the first 10 client engagements. Every system, every hire, every policy we deliver is tested against one question: would this survive a scaling startup?

Co-founder · HR Strategy & Growth
Brindha
  • 18+ years across GCCs, startups & MNCs
  • Talent strategy & hiring system design
  • POSH, compliance & policy frameworks
  • OD, performance & culture architecture
  • Founder coaching on people decisions
"I work with founders like a co-pilot — HR that doesn't slow you down, it powers you up."
Co-founder · Client Success & Delivery
Subin Daniel
  • Deep expertise in service operations
  • Client onboarding and engagement
  • Weekly syncs, issue tracking & resolution
  • Deliverable tracking and consistency
  • Add-on services & project coordination
"Think of me as your in-house HR support — without the hiring process or the full-time cost."
Early Feedback

What founders say.

We'd been trying to hire a growth lead for 4 months. HRish helped us rewrite the brief, fixed our interview process, and we closed the role in 3 weeks.

Founder, Series A SaaS Startup · Bengaluru

I didn't know we were POSH non-compliant until Brindha audited us. She fixed our policy, ran the ICC awareness session, and got us covered — all in a month.

Co-founder, D2C Brand · Chennai

As a first-time founder, I had no idea how to structure an offer. HRish gave us a hiring playbook we use every single time we bring someone new on board.

Founder, Bootstrapped Fintech · Hyderabad

Priced for
your stage.

No fixed packages. Every engagement is scoped to your team size, hiring volume, and actual need. One conversation is all it takes to get a quote.

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Early Stage
1–10 people
Founding hires, role design, offer templates, basic compliance
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Scale Stage
50+ people
Talent strategy, org design, HR advisory, leadership hiring
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10 founding slots.
No pitch. Just a conversation.

Tell us where you are and what's broken. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and exactly what it would look like.

Free 30-minute discovery call No retainer lock-in for first engagement Response within 24 hours