Ekam Constructors was established in 1991 — a proven 30-year generational contractor with real projects and scale. RAAYS Venture partnered with second-generation director Richie Arora to build the corporate structure, governance, working-capital lines, and strategic roadmap needed to expand beyond family-held bandwidth.
“We had 30 years of reputation. What we didn’t have was the structure to scale it. RAAYS built that with us.”
Ekam Constructors wasn’t a startup. It was a construction business built and proven over three decades — established in 1991, with a real track record, real projects, and real revenue behind it.
By the time Richie Arora stepped up to lead its next chapter, the question wasn’t survival. It was scale: how do you take a successful, generational business — one that grew on relationships, reputation, and hard-won experience — and structure it to grow faster, formalise fully, and expand into new markets?
A profitable, decades-old family business carries a specific kind of challenge. The very things that built it — informal decision-making, founder-and-family knowledge, relationship-driven operations — become the ceiling on what it can become.
Formalising governance, systems, and reporting so the business could grow beyond what the family personally holds day-to-day.
Moving from organic, relationship-led growth to a deliberate, milestone-driven expansion plan.
Construction is working-capital-heavy; taking on larger landmark contracts needs financing lines the traditional informal structure may not unlock.
Institutionalizing operations to support both major Indian commercial contracting and international presence via the UK arm.
Generational businesses rarely get this kind of structured second wind. That’s the gap RAAYS Venture exists to close.
RAAYS didn’t advise from the outside. Working directly with Richie Arora — with Lalit Kapoor and Abhishek Khurana engaged, and serving on the board — RAAYS partnered across the full lifecycle: [Diagnose → Formalize → Build → Fund].
Governance, board oversight, and multi-tier reporting systems put in place to move the 30-year contracting business off legacy informal processes onto institutional operating foundations.
Growth strategy and execution roadmap — defining commercial project focus, high-margin contracting positioning, operating site SOPs, and cross-border expansion planning.
Scaling operational capacity across landmark civil and commercial infrastructure projects in North India, while establishing and aligning the UK arm (Ekam Construction Group Ltd).
Structuring the working-capital lines, bank guarantees, and credit facilities essential to fund capital-intensive construction scale-ups and large-ticket project execution.
Elevating the market positioning from a traditional family contractor to a structured corporate engineering enterprise capable of winning high-value commercial tenders.
This was not an advisory report handed over and forgotten. With Abhishek Khurana & Lalit Kapoor serving on the board of directors and deeply engaged on capital structuring, RAAYS provides active, ongoing governance oversight.
What the public record shows: Ekam Constructors Private Limited is an active, GST-compliant private company (ROC Delhi, CIN U74899DL1991PTC046904) that reported roughly ₹114 crore in revenue for the financial year ending March 2022, with strong year-on-year growth.
Where RAAYS’s structuring, strategy, and capital work fits within that trajectory is the hallmark of our partnership: building governance and capital access behind an ambitious second-generation leader to support high-velocity execution.
“We had 30 years of reputation. What we didn’t have was the structure to scale it. RAAYS built that with us.”
“Structure first, capital after. When an established enterprise pairs decades of reputation with institutional systems, growth multiplies.”
Two things make Ekam a defining RAAYS case:
• Proven on established businesses: A 30-year generational company is exactly the
kind of profitable-but-traditionally-run business RAAYS is built to structure and scale.
• Sector-agnostic proof: Construction sits outside RAAYS’s five focus sectors.
Ekam proves those are focus areas — not limits — if the enterprise is real and ready
to be structured, RAAYS can build it.
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