Ashneer Grover was also a popular Shark (investor) in the first season of the reality TV show ‘Shark Tank India’. ( Mint) Ashneer Grover is the co-founder and former MD of the Indian fintech unicorn BharatPe.

Entrepreneur Ashneer Grover will come out with his autobiography this December which he says is “all about the hypocrisy of life – success in failure and failure in success”.

Ashneer completed his schooling in Delhi, then he did B.Tech in civil engineering at IIT Delhi. During his graduation days, Ashneer was one of the 6 students who was selected by IIT Delhi as an exchange student for the university of INSA Lyon Institut National Des Science Appliquees de Lyon, France. He moved to France in the year 2002, and he also received a scholarship of Rs. 5 lakh from the French Embassy. In 2004, Ashneer got himself enrolled in an MBA in Finance program at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In 2006, campus placement by IIM Ahmedabad landed Ashneer to Kotak Investment Banking, Mumbai as vice president. In 2013, he joined as the director in Amex, an MNC, and he served there for two years. He joined Grofers as the chief financial officer in 2015, and he worked there for a few years. After all this experience, he wanted to do something different, he met various investors and started making networks, and then he joined PC Jewellers as business head, and he helped them in their business development and payment options. When he was working in PC Jewellers, he got the idea of BharatPe in 2018 it is today the most used payment application.