# Lalit Keshre

> Lalit Keshre is a seed investor at Groww (Bengaluru) backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Groww](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groww)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalitkeshre
- Website: https://x.com/lkeshre
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lalitkeshre

Lalit Keshre is a seed investor at Groww in Bengaluru focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Lalit Keshre is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Co-founder and CEO of Groww. Lalit previously worked at Flipkart in senior product management. Lalit Keshre attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Lalit Keshre has received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$5.8M |
| Series A | $4.7M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 27% |
| FinTech | 4 | 12% |
| Internet | 3 | 9% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |
| Wellness | 3 | 9% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 64% |
| Series A | 6 | 18% |
| Angel | 2 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 30 | 91% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pranos Fusion | Pranos Fusion is a fusion energy company that provides baseload power, plasma modeling, and AI-driven clean energy technology. | $6.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| ZILO | ZILO is a premium fashion retail platform, offering a curated selection of clothing and accessories from over 200 top brands, with a focus on quick commerce and a seamless shopping experience. The platform is designed to help users "dress right, from AM to PM," providing outfit recommendations and daily planners to simplify wardrobechoices. | $15.3M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| FirstClub | FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes. | $8M | Seed | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Theranautilus | Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| Truva | Truva operates as a proptech startup. Truva leverages technology, data insights, and systems design to create a seamless journey for our customers. | $3M | Seed | Aug 12, 2024 |  |
| Juleo | Juleo is a good model of a respectful and high-achieving society. They are a caring meritocracy, or sports team with a heart, where success is determined by teamwork and results. | $2.5M | Angel | Aug 05, 2024 |  |
| Offline | Offline is a private members' club for India's top 10% of tech founders and CEOs. | $2M | Seed | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Kikibix | Kikibix brings you a range of healthy cookies made using unprocessed simple ingredients with the goodness of wholegrains, nuts, seeds and fruits. Kikibix is a perfect solution to your food cravings, which you can now enjoy guilt free. Eat right and stay bright. | $300K | Seed | Apr 01, 2023 |  |
| Finsire | Finsire builds lending enablement services by permitting digital assets to be taken as collateral. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Finsire | Finsire builds lending enablement services by permitting digital assets to be taken as collateral. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [iSeed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iseed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [peercheque](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peercheque) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sprint Vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sprint-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Stellaris Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellaris-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Groww

VC Fund · Bengaluru, India

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.

5 contacts available at Groww.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Lalit Keshre invest in?

Lalit Keshre invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lalit Keshre's check size?

Lalit Keshre typically joins rounds of $700k–$5.8M at Seed and $4.7M–$16M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lalit Keshre participates in.

### When did Lalit Keshre last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lalit Keshre closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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