Our story

Built by traders.
For the Indian desk.

We started MarginPlant because the brokers we used were either fast and opaque, or transparent and slow. None of them treated retail traders like the serious customers they are. So we built the one we wanted — and put it on the open internet for everyone.

Mission

Give every Indian trader the same execution speed, risk tooling and statutory transparency that a Mumbai prop desk gets — on a single fast terminal, at a flat-fee price. No tiering. No "premium" upsells gating real features.

Vision

An India where retail traders pick their broker on the quality of the platform, not the size of the advertising budget. Where "₹20 flat" is the floor, not a discount. Where the contract note reads exactly the way SEBI prescribes — line by line.

9 ms
Median order latency
99.97%
Uptime (last 6 mo)
0
Settlement breaks since launch
84 s
Median support response
Our values

How we make decisions when no one is watching.

Four rules — written down, taped to the wall, debated on every PR.

Trader-first, always

Every product call is reviewed by an active trader on the team. If it makes the desk slower, it doesn't ship — no matter how good the deck looks.

Transparent by default

Brokerage, statutory charges, margin formula and order-matching logic are documented in plain English. No 'premium tier' to unlock the truth.

Built for India

IST hours, Indian holiday calendar, Verhoeff-checked Aadhaar, GST-correct contract notes — the boring stuff done right so your CA never has a question.

Move fast, don't break the ledger

Engineering ships weekly. The ledger system is double-entry, append-only and reconciled hourly — speed never comes at the cost of your money.

The journey so far

Three founders, one ledger, zero shortcuts.

2023
Founding

Three founders quit their desks at a Mumbai prop shop. Built the first matching engine prototype in 9 weeks.

2024
Closed beta

Onboarded 120 active F&O traders. Zero settlement breaks across 3.1 lakh orders.

2025
Full launch

Public registration opened. Crypto, MCX and currency F&O added. Mobile app rolled out on both stores.

2026
Today

14+ live segments. ISO 27001 audit in flight. Working on a research-grade option-chain analyser.

The team

A small team that ships every week.

We're 22 people across Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune. Half are active traders. The other half wishes they had time to be.

Aarav Sharma
Co-founder · CEO

Ex-prop F&O trader, 9 years on NIFTY index options. Wrote the first version of the risk-enforcer engine.

Diya Patel
Co-founder · CTO

Built low-latency matching systems at two HFT shops. Cares unreasonably about p99 latency and append-only ledgers.

Kabir Joshi
Co-founder · COO

Chartered Accountant. Owns compliance, statutory contract-note generation and the SEBI filings.

Meera Iyer
Head of Product

Designed the terminal. Trades a small intraday book to stay honest about every UX decision.

Vikram Rao
Head of Engineering

Owns the real-time tick pipeline and the WebSocket fanout. Sleeps with a PagerDuty wristband.

Anika Gupta
Head of Support

Built the help desk from scratch. Median first-response time on a trading day: 84 seconds.

Where we work

Indian roots. Global infra.

Our trading-day team sits across Mumbai and Bengaluru, with support spread to cover IST + crypto evenings. Production runs on AWS Mumbai (ap-south-1) for India-resident data, with a Singapore replica for global-segment feeds.

Mumbai HQ

BKC. Engineering, compliance, trading desk.

Bengaluru

Indiranagar. Product, design, frontend.

Pune

Baner. Operations + KYC.

Remote

Support team across Tier-2 cities.

Want to build the next desk-grade broker?

We hire engineers, designers, traders-turned-PMs and compliance operators. If you've ever wanted to fix what's broken about Indian retail trading — write to us.