Dhan Becomes Unicorn With $120 Mn Funding Round

Stock trading platform Dhan parent Raise Financial Services has raised $120 Mn (about INR 1,065 Cr) in a Series B funding round valuing the startup at over $1.2 Bn, sources close to the development told Inc42.

The funding round, which was a mix of primary and secondary, was led by Hornbill Capital and Japan’s MUFG. It also saw participation from other investors like existing backer BEENEXT, Ramesh Damani (DMart), DSP Family Office, JM Financial Family Office and Aashish Somaiyaa (White Oak Capital).

“We are humbled to have found early success and product-market fit for Dhan amongst the Indian retail trading community. With this investment we’re excited to grow, innovate and double-down on our focus on Dhan, and at the same time introduce new products that are focussed on Investing, AI and expand into distribution of Financial Services,” said Pravin Jadhav, Founder and CEO, Raise Financial Services in a statement.

Notably, Avendus Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor in the said development.

This marks the second institutional fundraise for Dhan after its $22 Mn funding round led by BEENEXT in 2022. The startup had attained a valuation of $125 Mn back then, effectively marking a near 10X jump in its valuation.

However, the investment tech startup has been in discussions with investors to raise its second funding round for more than a year now. As per reports in February, ChrysCapital and two other undisclosed investors had also submitted their bids to participate in the round.

With this, Dhan has become the sixth Indian startup unicorn in 2025, succeeding Netradyne, Porter, Drools, Fireflies.ai and Jumbotail.

Founded in 2021 by former Paytm Money CEO Pravin Jadhav, Jay Prakash Gupta and Alok Pandey, Dhan offers multiple financial services in the stock broking space, primarily targeting users in Tier I, II Indian cities. Its portfolio of products consists of stock broking app Dhan, Option Trader app for options trading, Dhan Web platform, TradingView by Dhan and an API platform for traders called DhanHQ API.

Notably, Dhan is owned and managed by Raise Financial Services, a technology-focused investment platform built for long-term investors and super traders.

Raise also owns ScanX, a markets research platform offering news, screeners, and insights; Upsurge,a platform for learning about financial markets; and Filter Coffee, which produces bite-sized media content for Gen Z and millennials.

Recently, Raise also introduced Fuzz (askfuzz.ai), an AI model designed for serious investors and finance professionals, trained on large-scale financial datasets to deliver contextual and source-backed insights for Indian audiences.

Besides the new investors joining its cap table, it is backed by investors like 3one4 Capital, CRED’s Kunal Shah, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamoorthy, and PhonePe’s Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari.

On the financial front, Dhan reported a profit after tax (PAT) of around INR 400 Cr in FY25, more than double of the INR 177 Cr PAT it reported in its maiden profitable fiscal year FY24.

Its top line also grew significantly in the fiscal, zooming to about INR 900 Cr. This marks a 2.4X jump from the operating revenue it reported in the previous fiscal.

Dhan operates in India’s rapidly expanding investment tech market, with crores of users using online discount brokerages per month for trading.

In this space, Dhan competes with much larger players like Zerodha, Groww and Angel One.

With over 12 Mn monthly users, Groww is the largest trading platform in the country. Dhan trails other players like Zerodha, Angel One Upstox, among others, with its average monthly user base of about 1 Mn.

The largest player in the space, Groww, is currently eyeing to go public, having filed for a near $1 Bn IPO with the SEBI. Angel One is the only listed investment tech company as of now.

On the other hand, Zerodha, the oldest player in the segment, is considering charging brokerage fees for equity delivery trades after a decline in its revenue in FY25 as well as Q1 FY26.

Note: The story was edited to include company’s statement.

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