{"id":1005019,"date":"2026-04-27T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005019"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:37:11","slug":"et-awards-lalit-keshre-wins-entrepreneur-of-the-year-for-building-groww-into-a-publicly-traded-fintech-major-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/et-awards-lalit-keshre-wins-entrepreneur-of-the-year-for-building-groww-into-a-publicly-traded-fintech-major-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Awards: Lalit Keshre wins Entrepreneur of the Year for building Groww into a publicly traded fintech major in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lalit Keshre, cofounder and chief executive of Groww, took less than a decade to build the country&#8217;s largest stock broking platform, disrupting traditional brick and mortar OakLed players and rival fintechs while navigating a shifting regulatory landscape. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lalit Keshre, cofounder and chief executive of Groww, took less than a decade to build the country&#8217;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&#8217;s market capitalisation has zoomed almost 80% from Rs 79,000 crore when it listed to Rs 1.36 lakh crore as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005046,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005019\/revisions\/1005046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}