# Groww

> Groww is a VC fund in Bengaluru backing Financial Services and Advice. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groww.in
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/_groww
- Website: https://groww.in/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/growwapp

Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds.The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplifieduser interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch.Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Groww. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Groww. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/groww?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 71% |
| Advice | 4 | 57% |
| Payments | 3 | 43% |
| Transaction Processing | 3 | 43% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5 | 71% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 29% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harsh Jain | Co-Founder & COO | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harsh-jain |
| Ishan Bansal Dean | Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ishan-bansal |
| Kalpesh Balar | Vice President Of Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalpesh-balar |
| Lalit Keshre | Co-Founder & CEO | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lalit-keshre |
| Manish S Sugandhi | Product | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-s-sugandhi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fisdom | Fisdom is an automated investment service provider that manages a personalized online investment account. The personal finance startup also provides personalized investment recommendations. It plans to monetize by charging a commission from financial services companies and mutual funds. | $11.7M | Corporate Round | Nov 29, 2025 |  |
| Cybrilla Technologies | Cybrilla provide custom solutions on the cloud and ensure that infrastructural costs are kept down to a minimal specially for SMBs. With flexible payment options, including the monthly subscription model, they make sure that the SMBs get the maximum ROI possible.We build robust, secure and scalable applications that incorporate softwaredevelopment best practices like code for testing, testing integration & auto testing. Our development methodology ensures high test coverage and automation.We design interfaces, write code and produce product roadmaps. Our specialists are Ruby on Rails, iOS and Android. We live and breathe agile development. |  | Seed | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange | National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange is an electronic platform facilitating trading in commodity derivatives. It offers futures and options contracts across a spectrum of agricultural commodities—such as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, spices, and fibres—as well as select non-agricultural products. The exchange ensures regulation by theSecurities and Exchange Board of India, with an independent board of directors overseeing operations. It enhances market transparency and price discovery through standardized contracts and a real-time electronic trading system. | $56.7M | Series C | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| KUmar Pradeep | Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| CoinCRED | CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies. |  | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| CoinCRED Global | CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Digio | Digio brings paperless, presence less, hassle-free documentation, and digital processes to businesses and consumers. Digio offers an application software that enables users to digitize their documents and fill online forms using electronic signature gateway, thereby digitalizing traditional recurring payments via e-NACH, or verifying user identity. |  | Corporate Round | Jan 12, 2023 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Willowtree Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amara-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acacia Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acacia-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Citadel Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citadel-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [360 ONE Asset](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iifl-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Groww invest in?

Groww invests primarily in Financial Services, Advice and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Groww's check size?

Groww typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$3.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Groww participates in.

### How do I contact Groww?

Public channels for Groww include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Groww?

The team at Groww includes Harsh Jain (Co-Founder & COO), Ishan Bansal Dean (Co-Founder) and Kalpesh Balar (Vice President Of Engineering), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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