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Hissa is India’s equity and ESOP lifecycle company for private, public unlisted, and listed companies. It gives founders, finance, HR, employees, and investors one system of record for equity, from plan design through grant, vest, exercise, and liquidity. The platform issues grants, runs vesting, and keeps a live cap table across ordinary shares, preference shares, convertibles, ESOPs, SARs, ESPPs, RSUs, and phantom equity. Employees see their own grants, vesting, fair value, and perquisite tax before they exercise. Finance teams get Ind AS 102/iGAAP expense calculations, including Black-Scholes valuations, without rebuilding the workbook each quarter. Investors see ownership and dilution through a separate portal. Compensation modelling benchmarks equity grants. It is not a cash-compensation or HRIS product. Liquidity sits next to administration, not instead of it. The Hissa Fund is a SEBI-registered Category II alternative investment fund with a $35 million target corpus. It buys vested employee shares in Indian growth-stage private companies at a board-approved value and holds them until the company exits. Employees are paid in T+5 business days. The company does not run a buyback, so the purchase does not hit the balance sheet. Hissa is web-based, with no iOS or Android app. Pricing for startups with fewer than 25 employees is $15 per user per year, plus a $250 onboarding fee. Larger and listed companies are priced on request. A demo is available, but there is no free trial. I left out the Secondary Desk because the doc says it is still in development. You have about 290 characters of room, but I wouldn’t use them on it. If you want more text, add a line on how Hissa works with Indian companies instead.