Albinder Dhindsa

FOUNDER OF GROFERS

The 33-year-old young man – Albinder Dhindsa is Co-founder & CEO of Grofers.com.

Grofers, with a current valuation of roughly $115 Million is a Gurgaon-based start-up e-commerce platform which helps its customers with their daily shopping for products such as Grocery, Bakery Items, Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables, Meats, Baby Care Products, and many more!

Albinder, unlike most other upcoming businessmen/women, was an accidental entrepreneur, who had absolutely no intentions of getting into business, but because he saw a huge gap in the market along with a lucrative opportunity, he simply couldn’t control his urges to jump on to the entrepreneurship wagon.

But at the same time, even though he is a first generation entrepreneur of his family, he is known for the ways he does and is doing business. Personally speaking, he has completed his Bachelors in Technology from the IIT-D and has also pursued his Masters in Business Administration from the Columbia University – Columbia Business School.

The Path That Led To Grofers!

Soon after completing his bachelors from IIT-D, Albinder began his career!

He started working in 2005 as a Transportation Analyst at URS Corporation and continued the same for almost 2 years. In 2007 he took his first jump and moved to Cambridge Systematics as a Senior Associate and went on to work with them for more than 3 years.

In May 2010, Albinder decided to leave his job and moved to the United States to work pursue his Masters in Business Administration. While he was at it, he also joined UBS Investment Bank as an Associate in June 2011 for 3 months.

After completing his studies, Albinder decided to move back to his home ground to join Zomato.com as their new Head of International Operations, and went on to create a pool of knowledge for himself, for almost 3 years. And while he was at Zomato, he began working on his life’s most ambitious project – Grofers!

What is Grofers.com?

Owned and operated by Locodel Solutions Private Limited; Grofers is a hyper-local logistics company which provides an e-commerce platform for daily shopping. The platform enables its customers to shop from their favourite merchants in their neighbourhood and provides them with a delivery at their doorstep within 90 minutes.

In other words; by connecting the merchants to the consumers from their neighbourhood, Grofers attempts to make the local shopping experience easy and pleasant. They help deliver a range of more than 20,000 products spread across various categories which include Grocery, Bakery Items, Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables, Meats, Personal and Baby Care Products, Pet Care Items, Electronic Accessories, etc! These deliveries can either be scheduled for instantly or for a convenient time later.

To be able to meet the delivery time, Grofers has built multiple stations across all the cities they hold presence in. So whenever a customer places an order, it goes to the merchant as well as to the relevant station, then somebody from the nearest station picks up the order from the merchant and delivers it to the customer.

The platform currently operates in a total of 10 cities: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Pune.