Ashneer Grover was born on June 14, 1982, in Delhi. His father was a Chartered Accountant (CA) and his mother was a teacher. He completed his elementary education from the national capital and graduated in B Tech in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

For further studies, he went to INSA Lyon University in France for a student exchange program during 2002-2003 and then completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in 2006.

 

Before establishing BharatPe, he worked in many firms including; Kotak Investment Bank, Grofers, PC Jeweller Ltd and American Express. Ashneer's wife Madhuri Jain Grover, who is also an entrepreneur, served as the head of control at BharatPe since its incorporation and headed procurement and admin departments.