Indus is now backed by Zerodha
When we started Indus in Auckland, it came from a personal frustration. We were trying to invest back in India from New Zealand and kept running into the same walls. The paperwork was excessive.
The tax situation between the two countries was confusing and poorly documented. And there wasn't a single platform out there that seemed to understand what it actually feels like to be living overseas, earning in a different currency, and wanting to participate in India's growth story. Everything felt like it was designed for someone sitting in Mumbai or Delhi, not someone in Auckland or Sydney trying to figure this out after work on a Tuesday night.
We talked to other people in the investor communities here and heard the same thing over and over. People wanted to invest in India. But the process was so broken, so full of unnecessary steps and unanswered questions, that most of them just never got around to it.
We knew this experience didn't have to be this painful, and we felt strongly that someone needed to build the thing that should have already existed.
So we built Indus to fix it.
Since launching in New Zealand, over 15,000 people have trusted us with their investments.
That number means more to us than any metric on a dashboard, because behind every one of those accounts is someone who decided to give this a shot.
The feedback from our community has been incredible, and honestly, more than anything, it has validated what we believed from the very start: that investing in India from abroad should be simple, transparent, and fully compliant. No NRE accounts. No paperwork maze. No guesswork on taxes. Just a platform that works the way it should.
Nithin Kamath (Zerodha Founder & CEO), Jai Goradia (Indus Founder & CEO) & Vivek Parashar (Indus Co-Founder & CMO)
As we grow in Australia, we are excited to share that Indus is now backed by Zerodha, through their fund Rainmatter.
For those who may not be familiar, Zerodha is India's largest stock broker. They built their company on trust, transparency, and a genuine commitment to making investing accessible for millions of Indians.
Before Zerodha came along, retail investing in India looked very different, and they played a massive role in changing that. Their values mirror exactly what we are trying to build at Indus for the global Indian community, and having their backing as we move into this next chapter of growth means a great deal to us.
They understand what we are doing because, in many ways, they have already done something similar at a much larger scale back home.
We are just getting started. The problems we set out to solve in New Zealand exist in Australia too, and in dozens of other countries where Indians have built their lives while still wanting to stay connected to the financial future of India. There is so much more we want to build, and so much further we want to take this.
To every one of our users who believed in us early, before the numbers looked impressive, before anyone had heard of us, thank you. You took a chance on something new, and that trust is something we carry with us into everything we do next. There is a lot more to come.
