TIME names Groww CEO Lalit Keshre to its 2025 list of the World's Most Influential Rising Stars

Lalit Keshre, co-founder and CEO of Groww, has been featured in TIME’s 2025 list of the World’s Most Influential Rising Stars.

Advertisment

The list features five Indians this year: cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal, Groww’s Lalit Keshre, entrepreneur Shreya Murthy, innovator Shantanu Agarwal, and fashion entrepreneur Kartik Kumra.

Our CEO, Lalit Keshre (@lkeshre) is featured in the list of the World’s Most Influential Rising Stars.

The list features 5 Indians — Yashasvi Jaiswal, Lalit Keshre, Shreya Murthy, Shantanu Agarwal, and Kartik Kumra. https://t.co/gIYJxLg8kw@TIME

— Groww (@_groww) October 1, 2025

Keshre, who co-founded Groww in 2016, has built what is now India’s largest online stockbroking platform, with over 12 million users investing in stocks and other financial instruments.

Beyond stockbroking, Groww provides educational resources for first-time investors and integrates behavioral nudges into its app, encouraging long-term financial discipline while discouraging excessively risky trades.

The Bengaluru-based unicorn, last valued at $7 billion, is operated by its parent company, Billionbrains Garage Ventures, which is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO).

From a small village in Madhya Pradesh to IIT Bombay and eventually founding one of India’s largest fintech platforms, Keshre’s journey has been marked by persistence, timing, and teamwork.

In an April 2025 interview with CNBC-TV18, he recalled how access to an English-medium school and later IIT Bombay introduced him to entrepreneurship and capital markets.

“One of my wingmates got an internship in a listed company, and that’s how I got into the rabbit hole,” he said.

Before Groww, Keshre experimented with startups in med-tech and online education, and later joined Flipkart as a product manager. There, he worked on Flipkart Quick, an early attempt at quick commerce. 

“We were ahead, but I don’t think we had so much conviction. The timing was probably not right at that time,” he said. Still, Flipkart proved pivotal: it was where he met his Groww co-founders.

Reflecting on his leadership philosophy, Keshre has often said: “After every six months, you should feel stupid. Your core values should be nonnegotiable, but your assumptions should keep evolving.”