Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh Kumar is an IIT Bombay graduate who co-founded Grofers with Albinder Dhindsa in 2013. The pair built the first version of the business around hyperlocal logistics: the app took orders and had them delivered from neighbourhood kirana stores within a couple of hours, a model the company later replaced with its own warehouses and, from 2021, dark stores. Kumar stayed with the company for almost eight years.

Saurabh Kumar is the co-founder of Grofers, the grocery delivery startup that became Blinkit. He started the company with Albinder Dhindsa in Gurugram in 2013, when it delivered app orders from local shops, and helped steer it through its venture-funded expansion of 2014-2015, when Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and SoftBank backed the company. He was part of the leadership as Grofers moved from a pure marketplace connecting neighbourhood merchants to a model built on its own warehouses and private-label products, and through the 2016 layoffs that followed the funding slowdown. In June 2021, almost eight years after founding, Kumar left his executive role while remaining a board member and shareholder. His exit came a few months before Grofers relaunched as Blinkit and about a year before Zomato agreed to buy the company. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).