Groww

Groww (legally Billionbrains Garage Ventures Limited) is an Indian fintech company and one of the country’s leading digital investment platforms, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It was founded by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Ishan Bansal, and Neeraj Singh, all early Flipkart employees, who have been associated with the company since its inception.

Big update — Groww went public: Groww’s IPO, worth ₹6,632.30 crore, ran from November 4–7, 2025, and the stock listed on the BSE and NSE on November 12, 2025, at ₹112 per share — a 12% listing gain over its ₹100 issue price. It now trades under the ticker GROWW. Notably, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was among its backers before the IPO.

What Groww does:
The platform allows users to invest in mutual funds, stocks, ETFs, futures and options (F&O), U.S. equities, IPOs, and digital gold, while also offering margin trading facilities, algorithmic trading solutions, new fund offers, and credit-related products. Through its subsidiaries, Groww provides broking services and asset management offerings under the Groww AMC brand. For advanced traders, Groww also introduced “915 by Groww,” a pro-trading web-based terminal built for high-frequency trading.

Company overview:

• Employees: As of June 30, 2025, the company employed 1,415 people across India.
• Financials: Per its IPO filing, the company reported an EPS of ₹3.19 (diluted), NAV of ₹8.89, and Return on Net Worth (RoNW) of 37.57% for FY25, with an implied P/E ratio of around 30x post-issue.
• Competitors: Zerodha, Upstox, and Angel One in India’s discount broking/fintech space.

Tech-relevant highlights for job seekers:

• In-house technology stack – Groww is built on a fully in-house technology stack designed to support scalability, efficiency, and product innovation, similar to peers like Upstox and Zerodha.
• Customer-friendly, low-cost design – The company emphasizes a customer-friendly design to enhance the investing experience, high customer retention and engagement, and price in-elasticity as core strengths.
• Newly public company – As a freshly listed entity (Nov 2025), Groww now operates under public market scrutiny and reporting requirements, which often brings more structured engineering/compliance processes — relevant context for tech candidates evaluating stability and growth trajectory.