Mr. Dhruv Arora
Integrated MSc., Chemistry, 2008

Mr. Dhruv Arora is currently the Founder and CEO of Syfe (www.syfe.com).

Mr. Arora started his career as an Equity Trader in UBS Hong Kong, which hired him directly from IIT Bombay. They even offered him a fast-track program to become a Managing Director via UBS’s “Ascent” program. Mr. Arora left a high-growth career (promoted to Director at 27) to join Blinkit (formerly Grofers), where he oversaw the product, design, growth, and digital aspects of the business and was part of the team that took Blinkit from Seed to Series D in 11 months.

He left Blinkit in 2018 and launched Syfe in 2019.

Syfe is headquartered in Singapore and is one of the largest digital wealth managers across APAC. The company offers the highest quality of access, advice, and affordability that was once reserved for the ultra-rich to the masses.

Syfe is backed by leading global investors, including Peter Theil’s Valar Ventures, and has approximately 8% of all Singaporean adults on the platform. The company is now expanding further into Hong Kong and Australia.

Among the several awards and accolades he has received over the years are:

–  Fortune Tech Innovator Award, 2024.
–  LinkedIn Top Startups – 2024, 2023, 2022.
–  Asia FinTech Awards – WealthTech of the Year and Personal Finance Tech of the Year – 2023, 2022.
–  Top Fintech Leaders (Dhruv Arora) – Singapore Fintech Festival – 2021

Any other interesting fact about yourself that you may like to share: I am the recent father of a lovely daughter, Anaya, born in 2024. I love music and collect and appreciate Vinyl Music.

Hobbies: Basketball, golf, music.

Special Memories Associated with IIT Bombay

There are so many!
• Inter IIT in my first year, which was in IITB.
• Debating at 2 am whether to sleep or stay up till 4 to go to Maddu mess
• One of my favourites was in my freshie year, when before the midsem exams, I left my xerox copy notes on the balcony to get some water (I was in H3 where we had balconies on the ground floor) – which were eventually taken away by a cow chewing on them! That probably explained the grades.