Bootstrapped
Fintech
Zerodha
India's largest retail stockbroker, fully bootstrapped
Zerodha disrupted Indian brokerage with zero-brokerage trading and tech-first investing tools. Founded by Nithin and Nikhil Kamath, it has never raised external funding yet serves over 15 million active traders and generates substantial profitability.
- Stage
- Bootstrapped
- Total raised
- Bootstrapped
- Valuation
- $3.6B
- Founded
- 2010
- Employees
- 1,000-3,000
- Headquarters
- JP Nagar, Bangalore
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Skill up
Learn the Zerodha stack
CohortBackend
Backend Engineering Intensive
Build production-grade backends — data modelling, APIs, caching and scaling — with live mentor reviews on every assignment.
CohortSystem Design
System Design Masterclass
Design systems that don't fall over — load balancing, sharding, queues and the trade-offs senior interviews actually probe.
BootcampFull-Stack
Full-Stack Web Development
A full-time, outcome-driven bootcamp that takes you from first line of code to a job-ready full-stack developer — pay only once you're placed.
Self-pacedBackend
Project-Based Developer Track
Learn by shipping. Build real, work-like applications with professional tooling instead of watching lectures — portfolio-first.
Events
Where Zerodha shows up
ConferenceThe Fifth Elephant 2026
India's flagship data and ML practitioners' conference — two days of deeply technical talks, workshops and the legendary hallway track.
SummitGenAI Summit Bengaluru
A full-day summit on building with large language models — RAG, agents, evaluation and the GenAI stack, from teams shipping it in production.
ConferenceGDG DevFest Bangalore 2026
The biggest community-run developer festival in the city — Android, Web, Cloud and AI tracks, codelabs and a few thousand of your people.