Gunnam Associates', a partnership firm was founded in the year 2011 by Venkat Gunnam and Satya Devi to undertake business studies assessing market opportunities, competitive intelligence studies, epidemiology studies, etc. The firms first and only client then was Datamonitor PLC (part of Informa PLC) undertaking projects in Healthcare domain. One of the successful project that was executed then include 'Biosimilars Tracking' in the background when the EU and US regulations was evolving.