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From carpooling to quick commerce kings: Zepto’s Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra are just getting started

Vidhi Taparia
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July 2025
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This story belongs to the Fortune India Magazine July 2025 issue.

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Fortune India 40under40: Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra turned lockdown grocery runs into Zepto, a $5 billion startup redefining delivery speed and scale in India.

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From carpooling to quick commerce kings: Zepto’s Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra are just getting started
Zepto's co-founders, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra 

Friends since the age of seven, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra are habitual problem-solvers. Their first startup was a carpooling app for parents. When the pandemic confined families indoors, they began taking grocery orders over WhatsApp and delivering them in an hour across Andheri East in Mumbai.