Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Pune
Pune hires a huge share of its workforce straight out of its own colleges. ShipSprint fits a founding team of recent graduates as easily as it fits five people who've done this before.
A young team, in a city built around a young workforce
Pune's economy runs on automotive manufacturing and a large IT corridor around Hinjewadi, and underneath both sits one of India's biggest education hubs, which means a meaningful share of any young company's early hires come straight off campus, with no prior job to compare a tool against. A five-person startup here often looks less like a scrappy garage team and more like a slightly older classroom: everyone learning the company's processes and the company's software at the same time.
That's a real constraint most project tools ignore. A workflow built around custom fields and a permissions matrix asks a first-time hire to learn project management as a second discipline before they can do their actual job, and a founder with no dedicated ops person yet doesn't have the time to be that teacher. What a young team needs is a board that behaves the way people already expect a task list to behave, without training.
ShipSprint's free plan is five users and two projects, forever, on the same product a paying team uses, billed in rupees with GST-compliant invoices from a company registered in Hyderabad, not a dollar price that moves with the exchange rate.
What matters before the org chart has settled
Nothing here needs a dedicated admin to configure first.
Five users and two projects, permanently, on the full product. A founding team runs real sprints on it and only pays once headcount or project count genuinely outgrows those numbers.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates and vocabulary on the same subscription, so a founder covering hiring one day and product the next isn't switching between four separate tools.
A new workspace opens with a sample project already loaded, so a fresh hire can see how the board works before anyone has to explain it, and start using it the same day.
Early-stage plans shift constantly. The built-in wiki keeps the current reasoning next to the work it affects, with page history, and any sentence can become a task directly.
Everyone opens to a "my day" screen: today's items, a five-second time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in the right person with context already attached instead of a new hire quietly sitting stuck.
A free tier that isn't secretly a trial
Most tools a first-time founder tries offer something labeled free that's really a countdown: a fourteen-day window, or a seat limit low enough to force an upgrade before the team's second sprint. ShipSprint's Free plan has no expiry date attached. Five users and two projects run indefinitely on the same product a paying team uses, not a limited preview built to be outgrown on a schedule.
Rupee billing matters more to a team still figuring out its runway than it will once the company has a finance function big enough to absorb currency movement. A per-seat price that doesn't shift with an exchange rate is easier to plan against, and GST-compliant invoicing from a company registered in Hyderabad means the subscription's paperwork is straightforward from the first bill.
When a Hinjewadi team does cross five people, whether that's from a graduate intake or an early raise, Team is ₹299 per user per month, still priced for a founding team's budget. Business adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and SSO for ₹599 per user per month, with annual billing available on either. It stays the same product the whole company already knows, with more of it turned on.
Questions from Pune startups
Yes. Five users and two projects run on the Free plan permanently, on the same product as the paid tiers, with no time limit. You move up once your team or project count genuinely outgrows those numbers.
It actually helps. The board behaves the way most people already expect a task list to behave, with no workflow builder to learn first, and a sample project is preloaded so a new hire can see a working example before touching a setting.
No. Engineering gets the deepest tooling, but HR, marketing and operations run on the same subscription with their own templates, useful for a founding team that's hiring across more than one function at once.
Yes, billing is in rupees with GST-compliant invoices, and annual billing is available on paid plans. See pricing for the current numbers.
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