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222</head><body class="ycdc2 blog blog"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="/blog/content/images/2026/10/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--5-.png"/><link rel="preload" as="image" href="/blog/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template.jpg"/><link rel="preload" as="image" href="/blog/content/images/2023/03/Instagram-Image-Template--Square---21-.png"/><link rel="preload" as="image" href="/blog/content/images/2026/06/S25-Kick-Off-Day-1_128.jpg"/><link rel="preload" as="image" href="/blog/content/images/2026/04/2025-YC-Intern-Happy-Hour-0708_013.jpg"/><div id="ycdc_new/pages/BlogList-react-component-ad3c949a-4bd8-4703-8460-fef1e9db61d9" data-page="{&quot;component&quot;:&quot;ycdc_new/pages/BlogList&quot;,&quot;props&quot;:{&quot;posts&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6a30189502e8e60001163f61&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8a5f2c97-a0e2-4d6f-899c-abd3abdff4ad&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;chris-golda-and-grey-baker-general-partners&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;We&#x27;re excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining Y Combinator as General Partners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chris and Grey have both been Visiting Partners at YC, where they&#x27;ve already made a big impact working closely with founders across multiple batches. Now, as General Partners, they&#x27;ll play an even bigger role in selecting, advising, and supporting the companies we back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--1-.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;1200\&quot; height=\&quot;630\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--1-.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--1-.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--1-.jpg 1200w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;Christopher Golda&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chris co-founded BackType (YC S08), a data infrastructure and analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011. At Twitter, he launched and ran the Ad Center product, growing revenue to over $1B. Since leaving Twitter, he&#x27;s been working directly with founders to help them find customers and raise capital, participating in early-stage rounds of companies like Benchling, Coinbase, Stoke, and Supabase. As a Visiting Partner, he&#x27;s brought that combination of deep technical founder experience and a decade of pattern-matching across hundreds of early-stage companies to the founders he works with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--2-.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;1200\&quot; height=\&quot;630\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--2-.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--2-.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--2-.jpg 1200w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;Grey Baker&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grey co-founded Dependabot, a developer tool used by over a million people that was acquired by GitHub in 2019. 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222 includes over $20,000 in cloud credits on Azure and AWS, over $5,000 in credits for GPT/Claude/Grok, and generous credits for AI devtools in voice, browser automation, web search, video generation, databases, web crawling, and more. We’re especially happy that 14 YC companies are represented in this starter pack.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/firecrawl.png\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;1600\&quot; height=\&quot;1003\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/firecrawl.png 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/01/firecrawl.png 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/firecrawl.png 1600w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide\&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=\&quot;kg-gallery-container\&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=\&quot;kg-gallery-row\&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=\&quot;kg-gallery-image\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/vapi.png\&quot; width=\&quot;1600\&quot; height=\&quot;1002\&quot; loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; alt srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/vapi.png 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/01/vapi.png 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/vapi.png 1600w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 1200px) 1200px\&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/reducto-1.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;1587\&quot; height=\&quot;1096\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/reducto-1.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/01/reducto-1.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/01/reducto-1.jpg 1587w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;We would love to see students use these to experiment with the latest AI tools without worrying about paying for them out of pocket. Many of the best ideas are built on top of these technologies. For example, you could build a market research tool using &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/firecrawl\&quot;&gt;Firecrawl&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/exa\&quot;&gt;Exa&lt;/a&gt;, a voice assistant using &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vapi\&quot;&gt;Vapi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/browser-use\&quot;&gt;Browser Use&lt;/a&gt;, or a legal aide using &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reducto\&quot;&gt;Reducto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gumloop\&quot;&gt;Gumloop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, students who attend a YC university event starting in Fall 2025 are eligible to redeem a deal. You will receive an email shortly after your eligible event confirming your access to the program. We’re excited to work with our partners to continue rolling this out to more students in the upcoming year. 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New startups launch there throughout the batch, so it’s worth checking in regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Investors can review past investments and keep their contact info and bio up to date in the &lt;a href=\&quot;https://investors.ycombinator.com/\&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YC Investor Portal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. More information about attending Demo Day can be found at &lt;a href=\&quot;http://ycombinator.com/demoday\&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ycombinator.com/demoday&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We look forward to seeing you in person next year!&lt;/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;comment_id&quot;:&quot;694457decf4b6800016fd4f6&quot;,&quot;feature_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2025/12/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--1-.png&quot;,&quot;featured&quot;:true,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;email_recipient_filter&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-18T11:37:02.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-18T11:44:54.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;published_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-18T11:44:54.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;custom_excerpt&quot;:&quot;We’re excited to share the Demo Day dates for 2026 so founders, investors, and our broader community can plan ahead.&quot;,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;custom_template&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;authors&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29e3c7139e0001a7106f&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Y Combinator&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;yc&quot;,&quot;profile_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2022/02/yc.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:null,&quot;bio&quot;:null,&quot;website&quot;:null,&quot;location&quot;:null,&quot;facebook&quot;:null,&quot;twitter&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/author/yc/&quot;}],&quot;tags&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29efc7139e0001a71173&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;
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It is the second YC company to be listed in India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We met Meesho’s founders, Vidit and Sanjeev, three months into their journey. They applied to the Summer 2016 YC batch just after they launched their website. According to their application, they had 300 users at the time. As with most beginnings of great startups, they had a pretty clear idea of the problem they were solving, but hadn’t figured out the solution yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their problem was this: very small merchants represented a large percentage of the total online retail market in India, and those merchants were being underserved by the existing tool sets. Shopify and Bigcommerce, the existing tool providers at the time, were too expensive and too heavyweight for their needs. The example they gave during their interview was that of a homemaker who had a side business selling sarees to her friends and neighbors. She did this primarily over WhatsApp and Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While selling sarees to your neighbors didn’t scream ‘big opportunity’, the India-specific example was foreign enough to the two American and one Australian interviewers that it kept us on our toes. Going into the interview, we thought the Indian online retail market was already crowded, with the likes of Flipkart, Zomato, and Amazon India. But from their example, it became clear that we didn’t know what we didn’t know. The statistic that got our attention was that 3M Indians were selling (mostly apparel) on Facebook, and less than 5% had websites. For reference, there are a total of 3M small retailers (online and offline) in the entire US.  This &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a big opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/12/517092610_10230592175336015_2388313905635406595_n.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;960\&quot; height=\&quot;720\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2025/12/517092610_10230592175336015_2388313905635406595_n.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/12/517092610_10230592175336015_2388313905635406595_n.jpg 960w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;The Meesho founders (2016)&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meesho’s startup journey is not the tale of a rocketship to the moon. Rather, it was a decade-long grind of long days and disciplined product development. It is a tale of constantly asking customers what they need and then quickly and relentlessly iterating and testing solutions. It’s a tale of not shying away from hard problems. They started out by creating e-commerce tools that integrated 
222with Facebook’s Graph API. These tools helped sell and track orders. The tools got better and better, and the number of merchants grew along with those improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By staying close to their customer, the team soon realized that supply chain logistics and shipping problems were the biggest impediments to their merchants’ growth. But as we all learned during COVID, supply chains are complicated and fragile. Improving supply chains is a hard problem. Rather than shy away, they leaned in. By doing so, they not only solved their customers’ problems but also built a business that is not easily copycatted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, they learned that their merchants wanted to drive more traffic in order to grow. Recognizing the growing importance of influencers and online content in purchasing decisions, they built tools for these creators in order to drive that traffic. Then, in 2021, six years after they started Meesho, they launched a consumer-facing app and website, competing with the likes of Flipkart and Amazon India. It turns out that India’s online retail market wasn’t that crowded after all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over the course of 10 years, Meesho has methodically built their company by relentlessly listening to their customers. They have followed where their customers’ problems led them. In doing so, they have helped India harness the energy of its small business entrepreneurs. Their tale should serve as a great example to all startups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vidit and Sanjeev are both humble people with unassuming demeanors. That exterior, however, belies relentless energy and a steely determination to change the world. We couldn’t be more proud to have been a part of their journey to becoming a public company and wish them the best on their journey forward.&lt;/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;comment_id&quot;:&quot;693887aacf4b6800016fd484&quot;,&quot;feature_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2025/12/-YC-Content-Photo-Library-01-Batch-S16-Demo-Day-S16---Investor-Day-YC-Sign-meesho.png&quot;,&quot;featured&quot;:true,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;email_recipient_filter&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09T12:33:46.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-14T11:00:33.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;published_at&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09T20:32:10.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;custom_excerpt&quot;:&quot;Meesho goes public today. From S16 to IPO, they’ve built one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms—empowering millions of small merchants to grow their businesses.\n\nCongrats to Vidit and Sanjeev on a decade of relentless building and listening to users!&quot;,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;custom_template&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;authors&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29e3c7139e0001a710cc&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Tim Brady&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;tim-brady&quot;,&quot;profile_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2022/02/Tim.jpg&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:null,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Tim was a Group Partner at YC. He was co-founder of Imagine K12, an edtech accelerator that merged with YC in 2016. Prior to that, Tim was Yahoo’s first employee.&quot;,&quot;website&quot;:null,&quot;location&quot;:null,&quot;facebook&quot;:null,&quot;twitter&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/author/tim-brady/&quot;}],&quot;tags&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29efc7139e0001a71173&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;YC News&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;yc-news&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image&quot;:null,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;og_image&quot;:null,&quot;og_title&quot;:null,&quot;og_description&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_image&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_title&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_description&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;accent_color&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/tag/yc-news/&quot;}],&quot;primary_author&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29e3c7139e0001a710cc&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Tim Brady&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;tim-brady&quot;,&quot;profile_image&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2022/02/Tim.jpg&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:null,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Tim was a Group Partner at YC. He was co-founder of Imagine K12, an edtech accelerator that merged with YC in 2016. Prior to that, Tim was Yahoo’s first employee.&quot;,&quot;website&quot;:null,&quot;location&quot;:null,&quot;facebook&quot;:null,&quot;twitter&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/author/tim-brady/&quot;},&quot;primary_tag&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29efc7139e0001a71173&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;
222YC News&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;yc-news&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image&quot;:null,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;og_image&quot;:null,&quot;og_title&quot;:null,&quot;og_description&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_image&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_title&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_description&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;accent_color&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/tag/yc-news/&quot;},&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/meesho-goes-public/&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;Today, Meesho, one of India&#x27;s leading online retail and merchant tools companies, goes public. It is the second YC company to be listed in India.&quot;,&quot;reading_time&quot;:3,&quot;access&quot;:true,&quot;og_image&quot;:null,&quot;og_title&quot;:null,&quot;og_description&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_image&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_title&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_description&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;email_subject&quot;:null,&quot;frontmatter&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image_caption&quot;:null},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6913b454945b750001ddbdd0&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;41754b79-a663-4614-b21e-f827880b05fb&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Congratulations to Groww&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;groww&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Today, &lt;a href=\&quot;https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/groww\&quot;&gt;Groww&lt;/a&gt;, one of India&#x27;s leading consumer fintech companies, goes public. Groww is India’s dominant digital investing platform, enabling tens of millions of people to invest simply and confidently in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. Groww is Y Combinator’s first company to list in India, and we could not be more proud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When YC invested in Groww, we thought we understood what it meant to build a lasting company: to grow deliberately, focus on customers, and execute with discipline. But over the years, we’ve learned more from the Groww team about how to do that in India, or anywhere, than almost any team we’ve ever worked with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YC’s motto is &lt;em&gt;“make something people want,”&lt;/em&gt; and few companies have embodied this concept more completely than Groww. They grew organically, navigated through COVID, launched new products, and stayed relentlessly focused on their customers, always with quiet resilience and long-term conviction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.19.34-PM.png\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;1066\&quot; height=\&quot;950\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.19.34-PM.png 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.19.34-PM.png 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.19.34-PM.png 1066w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;The Groww founders in their YC application video (2018)&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking back at our early notes on Groww, it’s remarkable how far they’ve come. We always believed this team could build, but what they’ve achieved has gone far beyond even our most optimistic expectations. They consistently exceeded projections, created products we never imagined, and scaled with a sense of purpose and clear focus. Over time, we realized we weren’t just supporting these great founders, we were learning from them. We talk a lot about guiding founders, but the best ones teach us just as much as we teach them. Groww has been that kind of company - the kind that reminds us why we do this work, and what a great management team actually looks like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/11/2018-YC-Demo-Day-Groww_001-1.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;2000\&quot; height=\&quot;1335\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2025/11/2018-YC-Demo-Day-Groww_001-1.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2025/11/2018-YC-Demo-Day-Groww_001-1.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1600/2025/11/2018-YC-Demo-Day-Groww_001-1.jpg 1600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w2400/2025/11/2018-YC-Demo-Day-Groww_001-1.jpg 2400w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;Presenting at YC W18 Demo Day&amp;nbsp;&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Outside of playing point guard for the New York Knicks, my job at YC is one of the best in the world. And one of the best parts of it is 
222working with exceptional founders, the ones who build great companies and reshape entire industries. The Groww team is a standout in this elite group. Whether in San Francisco or at a strategy retreat in Mussoorie, spending time with them is a masterclass in thoughtful long-term company building. Watching Groww scale to become a public company in India is an incredible milestone, but it also feels like the natural next step for this team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We (like other long-term investors) are selling a small portion of our Groww shares as part of the public offering to increase the float. But it’s the kind of sale anyone would make reluctantly - this is a stock you want to hold forever. If you believe in backing great management, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, credit to former YC partner Anu Hariharan, who saw what made this team special very early and championed them from the start. She couldn’t have been more right.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations again to the Groww team.  It’s been our privilege to know and work with you, and we’re excited to continue to watch you grow(w)!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/11/G5lSURracAIdnQY.jpeg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;2000\&quot; height=\&quot;1629\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2025/11/G5lSURracAIdnQY.jpeg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2025/11/G5lSURracAIdnQY.jpeg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1600/2025/11/G5lSURracAIdnQY.jpeg 1600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2025/11/G5lSURracAIdnQY.jpeg 2048w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;figcaption&gt;The Groww founders at the National Stock Exchange of India today&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&quot;,&quot;comment_id&quot;:&quot;6913b454945b750001ddbdd0&quot;,&quot;feature_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2025/11/04c8284d6939e6cd482292937bb08bc1fb78823b.png&quot;,&quot;featured&quot;:true,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;email_recipient_filter&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11T14:10:28.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;updated_at&quot;:&quot;2025-11-12T13:38:09.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;published_at&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11T19:47:51.000-08:00&quot;,&quot;custom_excerpt&quot;:&quot;Today, Groww, India&#x27;s leading digital investing platform, goes public. Tens of millions use Groww to invest simply and confidently in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. As YC&#x27;s first company to list in India, we couldn&#x27;t be more proud.&quot;,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;custom_template&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;authors&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61fe29e3c7139e0001a7109c&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jon Levy&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;jon-levy&quot;,&quot;profile_image&quot;:&quot;/blog/content/images/2022/02/jon.jpg&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:null,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Jon is Managing Director, Partnerships at Y Combinator. 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222YC News&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;yc-news&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image&quot;:null,&quot;visibility&quot;:&quot;public&quot;,&quot;og_image&quot;:null,&quot;og_title&quot;:null,&quot;og_description&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_image&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_title&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_description&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_head&quot;:null,&quot;codeinjection_foot&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:null,&quot;accent_color&quot;:null,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/tag/yc-news/&quot;},&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/groww/&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;Today, Groww, one of India&#x27;s leading consumer fintech companies, goes public. Groww is India’s dominant digital investing platform, enabling tens of millions of people to invest simply and confidently in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. Groww is Y Combinator’s first company to list in India, and we could not be more proud.&quot;,&quot;reading_time&quot;:3,&quot;access&quot;:true,&quot;og_image&quot;:null,&quot;og_title&quot;:null,&quot;og_description&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_image&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_title&quot;:null,&quot;twitter_description&quot;:null,&quot;meta_title&quot;:null,&quot;meta_description&quot;:null,&quot;email_subject&quot;:null,&quot;frontmatter&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;feature_image_caption&quot;:null}],&quot;filter&quot;:null,&quot;featured&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6abdea55ce77500001349568&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;aba06903-9a3c-4952-b012-a45e71e2eb42&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;welcome-vivian-and-raphael&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;We’re thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vivian and Raphael have spent the last two batches working closely with YC founders as Visiting Partners. We’ve seen firsthand what makes each of them exceptional: they combine deep technical experience with strong product judgment, and they know how to help ambitious founders turn an early idea into something users love.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/10/2026-YC-Summer-Fellow-Retreat-Day-1_53.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;2000\&quot; height=\&quot;1334\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/10/2026-YC-Summer-Fellow-Retreat-Day-1_53.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/10/2026-YC-Summer-Fellow-Retreat-Day-1_53.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1600/2026/10/2026-YC-Summer-Fellow-Retreat-Day-1_53.jpg 1600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w2400/2026/10/2026-YC-Summer-Fellow-Retreat-Day-1_53.jpg 2400w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vivian co-founded Juni Learning (YC W18), an online academy for kids’ coding and math, and later founded Acely, an AI tutor for college readiness. Across the two companies, she built businesses with more than $50 million in revenue and millions of users. Acely alone grew from zero to $10 million in run rate with a lean team, showing what small, AI-native companies can accomplish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vivian has done nearly every job inside a startup: engineering, product, design, marketing, and whatever else needed to get done. Before becoming a founder, she worked as a software engineer at Google, a consultant at McKinsey, and Director of Product at Operator. She studied computer science and creative writing at Stanford. That range helps her judge both how well a product works and how much it matters to users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;figure class=\&quot;kg-card kg-image-card\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/2026/10/F25-1117_006.jpg\&quot; class=\&quot;kg-image\&quot; alt loading=\&quot;lazy\&quot; width=\&quot;2000\&quot; height=\&quot;1333\&quot; srcset=\&quot;https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/10/F25-1117_006.jpg 600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/10/F25-1117_006.jpg 1000w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w1600/2026/10/F25-1117_006.jpg 1600w, https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/size/w2400/2026/10/F25-1117_006.jpg 2400w\&quot; sizes=\&quot;(min-width: 720px) 720px\&quot;&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raphael founded Cron (YC W20), a next-generation calendar beloved for its craft, speed, and attention to detail. Notion acquired Cron in 2022, and Raphael went on to grow Notion Calendar to millions of users. He then served as Head of Design for Growth and new products.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raphael moves fluently between design and engineering. Before Cron, he worked on the popular news reader Flipboard and the award-winning Markdown editor iA Writer. With his Swiss eye for design, he has spent his career making complex software simple. Raphael holds a BS in Computer Science from Bern University of Applied Sciences and an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Founders building new products benefit from his instinct for what matters and his insistence on craft.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vivian and Raphael have built companies from the ground up, and they’ve already shown how much they can help other founders do the same. 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222Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners</h2></a><p>We’re thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners.</p></div><p class="mt-4 flex flex-col space-y-3 pl-3 font-medium text-linkColor sm:flex-row sm:space-y-0"><a href="/blog/welcome-vivian-and-raphael" class="mr-4 inline-flex flex-nowrap items-center text-base"><span>Read More</span><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="ml-1 inline h-4 w-4 md:h-5 md:w-5" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></p></div><div class="relative mx-2 mt-4 sm:mx-auto md:mt-8 lg:mx-0 lg:mt-0 lg:col-span-6 lg:self-start"><div class="isolate ml-12 flex flex-row flex-nowrap justify-center"><figure class=""><a href="/blog/welcome-vivian-and-raphael"><img class="w-full rounded-2xl shadow-lg" width="300" src="/blog/content/images/2026/10/BlogTwitter-Image-Template--5-.png"/><figcaption class="mt-2"></figcaption></a></figure></div></div></div></div></div><div class="relative isolate z-0 pt-6 lg:pt-9 pb-6 lg:pb-9"><div class="mx-auto max-w-ycdc-page px-4"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-yellow-600">Recent Posts </h3><div class="mx-auto mt-12 grid max-w-lg gap-9 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3"><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded shadow-sm"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/chris-golda-and-grey-baker-general-partners"><img width="300" class="h-48 w-full object-cover" src="/blog/content/images/2026/06/BlogTwitter-Image-Template.jpg" alt=""/></a></div><div class="flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between bg-white p-6"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/chris-golda-and-grey-baker-general-partners" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners</p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-700">We&#x27;re excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining YC as General Partners.</p></a></div><div class="mt-2"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-indigo-600"><a href="/blog/tag/yc-news"><span class="mb-2 mr-4 inline-flex items-center rounded bg-gray-200 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-gray-800">YC News</span></a></p></div><div class="mt-6 flex items-center"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/author/garry"><span class="sr-only">Garry Tan</span><img width="40" class="h-10 w-10 rounded-full" src="/blog/content/images/2023/03/Instagram-Image-Template--Square---21-.png" alt=""/></a></div><div class="ml-4"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-gray-800"><a href="/blog/author/garry" class="hover:underline">Garry Tan</a></p><div class="flex space-x-1 text-sm text-gray-500"><span>6/16/2026</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded shadow-sm"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/diana-hu-managing-partner"><img width="300" class="h-48 w-full object-cover" src="/blog/content/images/2026/06/S25-Kick-Off-Day-1_128.jpg" alt=""/></a></div><div class="flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between bg-white p-6"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/diana-hu-managing-partner" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Diana Hu Is YC&#x27;s Newest Managing Partner</p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-700">We&#x27;re thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator.
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224Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped tech to 100 million people. Diana has done both.</p></a></div><div class="mt-2"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-indigo-600"><a href="/blog/tag/yc-news"><span class="mb-2 mr-4 inline-flex items-center rounded bg-gray-200 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-gray-800">YC News</span></a></p></div><div class="mt-6 flex items-center"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/author/garry"><span class="sr-only">Garry Tan</span><img width="40" class="h-10 w-10 rounded-full" src="/blog/content/images/2023/03/Instagram-Image-Template--Square---21-.png" alt=""/></a></div><div class="ml-4"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-gray-800"><a href="/blog/author/garry" class="hover:underline">Garry Tan</a></p><div class="flex space-x-1 text-sm text-gray-500"><span>6/11/2026</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded shadow-sm"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/welcome-harshita"><img width="300" class="h-48 w-full object-cover" src="/blog/content/images/2026/04/2025-YC-Intern-Happy-Hour-0708_013.jpg" alt=""/></a></div><div class="flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between bg-white p-6"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/welcome-harshita" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner</p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-700">We&#x27;re thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner.  She brings deep fintech and infrastru
224cture experience, a founder&#x27;s instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who&#x27;s been building companies since she was a teenager.</p></a></div><div class="mt-2"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-indigo-600"><a href="/blog/tag/yc-news"><span class="mb-2 mr-4 inline-flex items-center rounded bg-gray-200 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-medium text-gray-800">YC News</span></a></p></div><div class="mt-6 flex items-center"><div class="shrink-0"><a href="/blog/author/garry"><span class="sr-only">Garry Tan</span><img width="40" class="h-10 w-10 rounded-full" src="/blog/content/images/2023/03/Instagram-Image-Template--Square---21-.png" alt=""/></a></div><div class="ml-4"><p class="text-sm font-medium text-gray-800"><a href="/blog/author/garry" class="hover:underline">Garry Tan</a></p><div class="flex space-x-1 text-sm text-gray-500"><span>4/6/2026</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="relative isolate z-0 pt-6 lg:pt-9 pb-6 lg:pb-9"><div class="mx-auto max-w-ycdc-page px-4"><div class="mt-2 grid max-w-lg gap-5 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3"><div class="col-span-2"><h3 class="text-xl font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-yellow-600">All Posts</h3><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/adding-canada-back" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Adding Canada Back to Our List of Accepted Countries of Incorporation</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/garry" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Garry Tan</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">2/5/2026</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we are adding Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.</p><div class="mt-4"><a class="inline-flex text-sm font-medium text-blue-500 md:text-base" href="/blog/adding-canada-back">Read More<!-- --> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="mx-1 h-6 w-6" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/congratulations-to-equipmentshare" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/garry" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Garry Tan</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">1/23/2026</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they&#x27;ve built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contractors, for contractors. Congrats to Jabbok, Willy, and the EquipmentShare team on a huge milestone.</p><div class="mt-4"><a class="inline-flex text-sm font-medium text-blue-500 md:text-base" href="/blog/congratulations-to-equipmentshare">Read More<!-- --> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="mx-1 h-6 w-6" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/the-yc-ai-student-starter-pack" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Announcing the YC AI Stack</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/ankit-gupta" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Ankit Gupta</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">1/16/2026</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">We&#x27;ve partnered with nearly two dozen companies to offer students who attend YC events a suite of over $25,000 in free credits for AI devtools.</p><div class="mt-4"><a class="inline-flex text-sm font-medium text-blue-500 md:text-base" href="/blog/the-yc-ai-student-starter-pack">Read More<!-- --> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="mx-1 h-6 w-6" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/2026-demo-days" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">2026 Demo Day Dates</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/yc" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Y Combinator</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">12/18/2025</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">We’re excited to share the Demo Day dates for 2026 so founders, investors, and our broader community can plan ahead.</p><div class="mt-4"><a class="inline-flex text-sm font-medium text-blue-500 md:text-base" href="/blog/2026-demo-days">Read More<!-- --> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="mx-1 h-6 w-6" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/meesho-goes-public" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Meesho Goes Public</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/tim-brady" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Tim Brady</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">12/10/2025</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">Meesho goes public today. From S16 to IPO, they’ve built one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms—empowering millions of small merchants to grow their businesses.
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226Congrats to Vidit and Sanjeev on a decade of relentless building and listening to users!</p><div class="mt-4"><a class="inline-flex text-sm font-medium text-blue-500 md:text-base" href="/blog/meesho-goes-public">Read More<!-- --> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" class="mx-1 h-6 w-6" width="1.25em" height="1.25em"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M13 9l3 3m0 0l-3 3m3-3H8m13 0a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z"></path></svg></a></div></div></div></div><div class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg"><div class="mb-6 mr-6 flex flex-1 flex-col justify-between"><div class="flex-1"><a href="/blog/groww" class="mt-2 block"><p class="text-3xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Congratulations to Groww</p></a><p class="text-md py-2 text-gray-500">by <a href="/blog/author/jon-levy" class="text-blue-500 hover:underline"><span class="">Jon Levy</span></a><span class="ml-4 text-sm font-normal">11/12/2025</span></p><p class="mt-3 text-base text-gray-800">Today, Groww, India&#x27;s leading digital investing platform, goes public. 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