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Aarav Mehra
Founder · CEO
Ex-Razorpay engineer. Built the original spreadsheet. Reads RBI minutes for fun.
About · est. 2024 · Mumbai & NYC
We believe finance has been gatekept,
complicated on purpose,
and split across ten apps
for far too long.
Six things poiso will never do.
01
Sell you a product.
No commissions, no kickbacks, no "recommended" fund that pays us a slice. The only money poiso makes is your subscription.
02
Pretend to time markets.
Nobody can. We refuse to dress up bets as research. We focus on what's controllable: allocation, fees, taxes, behaviour.
03
Sell your data.
Your portfolio is read-only and end-to-end encrypted. We can't sell what we can't see.
04
Use jargon.
"Tax-loss harvesting" → "use losses to cancel gains." Every screen passes a 13-year-old's eye-roll test.
05
Push FOMO.
No "limited-time IPO" banners, no countdown timers on crypto. We sell patience. Markets sell the rest.
06
Hide the math.
Every number on poiso has a "show me how" button. The formula is on the next tap, always.
Origin story · 01
Born from a spreadsheet.
Poiso started in March 2024 as a 4,800-row Google Sheet built by Aarav, a founding engineer who wanted to understand his own portfolio. He showed it to seven friends. All seven asked for a copy. Within a month, the Sheet had crashed twice and Aarav had quit his job.
The original product was a single page: paste your holdings, get a one-paragraph diagnosis. It did one thing — read what you actually owned and told you, in English, what was wrong. We still consider that the soul of the product.
Today poiso is a team of twenty-three spread across Mumbai and Brooklyn. We've answered 4.1 million calculator queries, x-rayed ₹2,140 crore of household wealth, and stayed independently funded. No VCs in the cap table — we want to outlive funding rounds.
We're building for a generation that distrusts banks, finds Bloomberg unreadable, and refuses to wait until 50 to "get serious about money." Money is serious. It's also yours. The two facts deserve a product that respects both.
₹2,140Cr
Household wealth tracked
4.1M
Calculator queries answered
23
Team across MUM & NYC
0%
Commissions, ever
Team · 02
A handful of people
who care too much.
Engineers, ex-RBI economists, an actuary, and someone who used to write Bloomberg's worst-named newsletter.
P
Priya Iyer
Co-founder · Design
Previously at Headspace and Apple HI. Wants every product to feel like a deep breath.
D
Devansh Rao
Head of research
Ex-RBI economist. 11 years across monetary policy and household finance.
N
Naina Krishnan
ML lead
Built the AI x-ray. Spent two years at OpenAI before deciding finance needed her more.
K
Kabir Shah
Actuary
FRM, FIA. The reason our retirement calculator handles 96% confidence intervals.
M
Meera D'Souza
Editorial
Bloomberg → poiso. Believes "annualised" is a word you should never say to a real human.
R
Rishi Banerjee
Infra · Security
Holds the keys. AES-256, SOC2 Type II, and an aggressive aversion to logging anything.
S
Saanvi Joshi
Support · Listener
Talks to every new user in the first 7 days. Loves spreadsheets, hates spreadsheets.
Timeline · 03
Two years compounding.
From one founder, one spreadsheet, and seven curious friends — to a quietly serious product used by hundreds of thousands.
2024 · Q1
The spreadsheet.
Aarav builds a portfolio analyzer in Google Sheets for himself. Seven friends ask for a copy. A clear product-shaped hole appears.
2024 · Q3
poiso v0.
A single page launches with a single calculator (SIP) and a single button (Analyse). 4,000 signups in week one. We promise we’ll never spam.
2025 · Q1
The AI x-ray.
We ship the chat-based portfolio analyzer. Naina trains it on 11 years of RBI household survey data and 300+ real anonymised portfolios.
2025 · Q4
14 calculators · 1M users.
We cross a million monthly users. We don't celebrate — we panic and double the security team. Then we celebrate.
2026 · today
Building quietly.
We have no growth-hack roadmap. We have a roadmap of fewer features, more honesty, and a tax-harvesting tool by Diwali.
Careers · 04
Work with weird care.
Five open roles. We hire slowly. If we say yes, we mean yes for a long time.