BinateYour India hub partner
Your India engineering team, built like a Hub.
We hand-pick lateral engineers, embed them inside your team from day one, and quietly handle the India-side operations of employment, payroll, and compliance in the background. When the team is ready to graduate, we help you carve it out into your own India engineering hub.
- Since 2019
- Founder-focused
- Hired for you
- Lateral hires, matched to the role
- Go global
- Working hours that match yours
The journey
Stage 1
Start with us
We hire, employ, and embed your India team.
Stage 2
Scale on your own
When you're ready, we help you carve out your own India engineering hub.
One continuous engagement, two stages.
What we handle
The whole India operation, off your plate
Hiring & lateral placement
Sourcing, vetting, interviews, and offers. Every engineer is a lateral hire matched to your role, not a bench transfer.
Payroll & compliance
We employ the team on Binate's books and handle payroll, contracts, statutory compliance, and IP assignment in India.
Onboarding & ongoing support
Equipment, workspace, and continuous enablement so engineers stay productive inside your team, for as long as you need.
Hub stand-up & scale-up
When you're ready, we help you set up your own Indian entity, migrate the team across cleanly, and keep scaling with you.
Why Binate
Bigger than a freelance hire. Lighter than a full outsourcing build.
Too small to be impersonal, structured enough to handle payroll, compliance, and a clean entity carve-out when the time comes.
Vetted, not sourced
Every engineer is interviewed and reference-checked by our team before you ever meet them.
Productive in weeks, not quarters
Most engagements are up and running within 2 to 3 weeks of our first conversation.
Comfortable across time zones
Our teams routinely work with founders in the US, UK, EU, and Australia.
Built around your stage
Start lean with us as the employer, graduate into your own India engineering hub when the time is right.
How it works
Start lean. Graduate into your own India engineering hub when you're ready.
Most founders begin with us as the employer, so they can move fast without setting up a legal entity. As the team and revenue grow, we help you carve out your own India engineering hub and keep scaling, on your terms.
Stage 1
Start with us
Binate hires, employs, and runs payroll.
Stage 2
Scale on your own
Your entity, your team, your India hub.
- 01
Understand your context
Stage, product, budget, and timeline.
- 02
Hire & embed the team
We hire, employ, and onboard. They work inside your team.
- 03
Run the operation
Payroll, compliance, and ongoing support, all on us.
- 04
Scale on your own
When you're ready, we set up your entity and migrate the team.
FAQ
Common questions
- What does Binate actually do?
- Binate is a founder-friendly India hub partner. We hire your India engineering team, employ them on our books, run payroll and compliance, and embed them with you. When you're ready, we help you set up your own Indian entity and migrate the team across.
- Do I need to set up an Indian entity to work with Binate?
- No. In Stage 1 (Start with us) Binate is the employer of record, so you can hire engineers in India without setting up a legal entity. When the team and revenue justify it, we help you carve out your own India engineering hub.
- Where are Binate engineers based and which time zones do they cover?
- Engineers are based in India and routinely work with founders in the US, UK, EU, and Australia, with daily working overlap shaped to your team's hours.
- How quickly can a team be up and running?
- Most engagements go live within two to three weeks of the first conversation, including hiring, contracts, equipment, and onboarding.
Let's talk
Ready to set up your India team?
Tell us a little about what you're building and we'll suggest the right setup, usually within a couple of working days.