ET Awards: Lalit Keshre wins Entrepreneur of the Year for building Groww into a publicly traded fintech major in a decade

Lalit Keshre, cofounder and chief executive of Groww, took less than a decade to build the country’s largest stock broking platform, disrupting traditional brick and mortar OakLed players and rival fintechs while navigating a shifting regulatory landscape.

The IIT-Bombay alumnus not only steered the startup he co-founded with Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh and Ishan Bansal to a blockbuster public listing in November last year, but also sustained its growth momentum after the IPO, multiplying investor wealth in the process. Groww’s market capitalisation has zoomed almost 80% from Rs 79,000 crore when it listed to Rs 1.36 lakh crore as of close of trade on Friday.