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YC W18 co-founder and COO of public fintech Groww and active angel investor
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GTM / Distribution · 77th percentile
- groww.in ranks #26,485 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current Co-Founder and COO of Groww, an online investment platform with over 10 million active investors.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Y Combinator Winter 2018 alum via Groww.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)groww.in ranks #26,485 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Groww was co-founded with multiple co-founders including Lalit Keshre and Ishan Bansal.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Groww has gone public (IPO) on Indian stock exchanges, confirmed by Y Combinator's company listing.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of runjhunstories.com, an earlier venture he started in 2008.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Identified Stack Overflow account with 1,372 reputation.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources including CBInsights and Tracxn.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made 18 angel investments, with the latest being in Equal Identity's Series A in November 2024.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Approximately 9 years of investing experience, having started angel investing around the time Groww was founded in 2016.
What you likely need
You're a public-company fintech founder with a YC W18 pedigree and 18 angel bets already on the table, so the highest-leverage events for you sit at the intersection of formalizing your investor identity and deepening the relationships that turn deal flow into a real fund. You'll get the most out of rooms where you're the most credentialed operator in the space — think YC alumni dinners, fintech founder roundtables, and syndicate-building sessions where your Groww story is the unfair advantage. Events that sharpen your public thought-leadership voice — op-ed workshops, media founder dinners — will compound your brand now that Groww is public and the spotlight is brightest.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC W18 alumni dinner for founders who've since taken their companies public or to unicorn status, to swap notes on post-IPO brand leverage and co-investment opportunities in current YC batches
- fundraisingA roundtable for prominent Indian fintech founders-turned-angels looking to formalize their deal flow into a syndicate or micro-fund, with a guest GP from a top rolling-fund platform like AngelList or Vauban walking through carry structures
- introsA curated dinner of Series A–B Indian fintech founders actively seeking board members or advisors with deep SEBI regulatory and consumer-product scaling experience, where your Groww operational playbook is the exact credential they're recruiting for
- positioningA small workshop for newly public or pre-IPO founders on translating a company milestone into a sustained thought-leadership presence — covering op-ed placement, keynote positioning, and tier-1 media relationships — run alongside 4–5 founders who've recently navigated the same transition
- introsA YC W18 alumni office-hours session paired with founders from the current YC batch, where you serve as one of the most credible references on scaling a consumer fintech in an emerging market and surface co-investment opportunities early
- tacticalA tactical dinner for angels with 15+ portfolio companies reviewing frameworks for exercising pro-rata rights at scale, sizing follow-on checks as a public-company founder, and identifying the 2–3 breakout bets in an existing portfolio worth doubling down on
- positioningA dinner for technical founders building a global writing presence on Substack or dev.to — specifically those with a product-strategy or fintech-infrastructure angle — to workshop content positioning that reaches beyond a single regional ecosystem
- fundraisingA happy hour for Indian unicorn and decacorn founders who are active angels, focused on sharing deal flow, benchmarking check sizes post-liquidity event, and identifying 1–2 shared portfolio companies ripe for a coordinated follow-on round