About us

The team behind Finbelief.

The team
The core

Builders, investors, researchers. Obsessed with shipping institution-grade tools to retail investors.

Shailesh Mehta
Shailesh Mehta
Co-Founder · Growth & Strategy
IIT Bombay · IIM Ahmedabad · PhD

Built a wealth-management platform acquired by Groww. Equity research at J.P. Morgan, M&A at Wipro, US tech patents. PhD in Jainism ethics.

Sameer Rangwala
Sameer Rangwala
Co-Founder · Product & Technology
Ashoka University · Econ & CS

Full-stack engineer and quant researcher. Shipped four AI products, including a financial terminal and an AI-powered spreadsheet engine. ML trading systems expert.

Himanshu Patil
Himanshu Patil
Technology & Trading
IIT Bombay · Purdue University

Founder of Investar (300K+ users). Built AlphaBridge — a multi-strategy algo engine for stocks, options, and futures. 30+ years trading US and Indian markets.

Manoj Kothari
Manoj Kothari
Innovation & Product Strategy
IIT Bombay · NID

30+ years of innovation strategy with global brands. Co-founder & CEO of Turian Labs, board advisor at IDC-IIT Bombay. Focus: design thinking, foresight, trends.

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Co-Founder · Markets & Research
Finance · Environmental Science

Markets and research specialist joining from a top global investment manager. Converts market signals into investment calls across public equity and private markets.

Advisory Board
Atul Yadav
Atul Yadav
Angel Investor & Startup Advisor
IIT · IIM Lucknow

50+ early-stage investments, 35%+ IRR over 10 years. 100+ founders mentored. $500M+ deployed in lending. Two multi-million exits. India site head for a $4.5B global product line. Author of 11 books.

Sai Yayavaram
Sai Yayavaram
Prof. Strategy, IIM Bangalore
IIM Bangalore

Associate Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore. Formerly faculty at NUS (9 years). Published in ASQ, SMJ, and Organization Science. Research: innovation, complexity, strategic rents.

The problem

Every investor has a belief. Almost none of them can act on it.

You take advice but you don’t know why. You don’t know when to enter, when to add, when to exit. Generic AI hands you generic answers, not your strategy. Regulated tips arrive without track records.

When you win, you can’t tell if it was the call or the market.

When you lose, you blame someone else and can’t name what to do next.

Every move becomes panic or FOMO.

You invest in a frenzy. That’s the problem.

Our guiding mission

Get every retail investor’s belief into their portfolio.

Every retail investor has views about the world. They watch markets, hold opinions, and back companies they believe in. But the path from belief to portfolio is broken: they take tips they don’t understand, follow advice they can’t challenge, and end up holding positions they can’t defend.

We’re fixing that with institution-grade tools in their hands — the research stacks, risk systems, and thesis-led rebalancing that big institutions take for granted. Decades of experience investing alongside retail and building the systems they never had access to, packaged for the people who actually need them.

At the core sits our proprietary AI / ML engine. It takes your belief, finds the securities that win if it’s right, sizes them by your conviction, and rebalances only when the thesis changes. Suddenly the portfolio is yours — your view, your weights, your rules — and you can defend every position in it.

Own your beliefs.
Not tips. Not baskets. Not borrowed signals.
Own your portfolio.
Sized, explained, defensible — never a black box.
Own your outcomes.
Your conviction. Your rebalance. Your returns.
Where we are

Bengaluru, India.

We build from India, for the world.

You’re always welcome by appointment — drop a line first so we have a coffee ready.

HQ
Finbelief Systems Private Limited
#14042, Prestige Wellington Park,
1 & 2 IAF Main Rd, Jalahalli,
Bangalore North, Karnataka 560013, India