Private Limited Company Registration in Bengaluru
Incorporating in Bengaluru registers your company with the RoC, Karnataka in Koramangala — the busiest startup registrar in the country. If venture capital is anywhere in your plan, the private limited structure is effectively mandatory here: it is what every term sheet in the city assumes, and what ESOP pools and DPIIT recognition are built on.
Timeline: 7–14 working days, subject to MCA name approval and processing
What is specific to Bengaluru
- Stamp duty in Karnataka
- Karnataka stamps the Memorandum and Articles at incorporation with duties that scale with authorised capital — collected electronically inside SPICe+ and charged at actuals. The state sits in the middle of the range: costlier than the flat-duty states, well below Maharashtra's ad-valorem bite at higher capitals.
- Your Registrar of Companies
- Registrar of Companies, Karnataka — 'E' Wing, 2nd Floor, Kendriya Sadana, Koramangala, Bengaluru
- Professional tax in Karnataka
- Karnataka levies professional tax at ₹200 a month on employees earning ₹25,000 or more, deducted and paid by the employer, and the entity itself enrols and pays an annual employer's tax — registrations are done on the e-PRERANA portal, typically right after incorporation.
- Shops & Establishments registration
- Establishments register under the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961 through the e-Karmika portal. Bengaluru's tech employers also meet this Act when seeking the state's permissions for 24×7 operations and night-shift work.
Doing business in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is India's startup capital by any measure that matters — venture funding, DPIIT-recognised startups, global capability centres — and its defaults have hardened into conventions: venture-funded companies are private limited, ESOP pools are set up at or soon after incorporation, and DPIIT recognition is applied for early to open the Section 80-IAC and fast-track IP lanes.
The city's business districts each have their own texture — Koramangala and HSR for early-stage startups, Outer Ring Road and Whitefield for GCCs and scaled tech, Peenya for manufacturing. Co-working registered offices are common and accepted, provided the NOC and utility-bill paper trail is clean; the RoC in Koramangala sits in the middle of the very ecosystem it registers.
For software exporters — the city's signature business — the compliance rhythm is specific: a GSTIN with a Letter of Undertaking for zero-rated export invoicing, softex-aware banking, and input-credit refunds that reward disciplined monthly filing. Setting these up correctly at the start is worth a quarter of consulting fees later.
About the service
A Private Limited Company is the structure investors, lenders and larger customers expect: it gives the business its own legal identity, limits each shareholder's liability to their shareholding, and makes it possible to issue shares and ESOPs later. Incorporation runs through the MCA's SPICe+ system, which combines name reservation (Part A) with the incorporation filing itself (Part B), including PAN and TAN allotment.
ClearTLC manages the whole sequence for you. We collect KYC for both directors, obtain two Class-3 digital signature certificates and two DINs, draft the Memorandum and Articles of Association around your stated business objects, and file SPICe+ with the Registrar of Companies through a practising CA/CS partner who certifies the forms. You track every stage — documents, review, filing, approval — live in your ClearTLC dashboard.
On approval you receive the Certificate of Incorporation with the company's CIN, PAN and TAN. We also flag the statutory clocks that start on day one, such as appointing the first auditor within 30 days and filing the declaration of commencement of business (INC-20A) within 180 days, so your new company starts compliant and stays that way.
Documents required
- PAN card of both directors
- Aadhaar card of both directors
- Passport-size photo of both directors
- Bank statement or utility bill of each director (address proof, not older than 2 months)
- Latest utility bill of the registered office premises
- Rent agreement or owner's NOC for the registered office
- Proposed company names (2 preferences) and business objects
GST & invoicing: Invoiced under SAC 998216 (other legal services) with 18% GST on the professional fee. Government fees are collected at actuals as a pure reimbursement.
Questions about private limited company registration in Bengaluru?
An expert will call you back during business hours — the fee is always confirmed in writing before work begins.