Varun Sheth


Varun Sheth an Indian businessman, is the founder and the CEO of Ketto, a crowd-funding platform that helps campaigns and projects raise money through donations. After quitting his job as an interest rate swap trader, Varun started Ketto in 2012. Ketto has crowdfunded Rs 300 crores+ from a community of 2.5 million+ donors from across 75+ countries.

Early life

Varun Sheth was born and brought up in Mumbai, did his schooling in Jamnabai Narsee School and college in Narsee Monjee. Having an acute interest in the financial sector, he went on to do a couple of financial programs that included Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Management. He worked as an interest rate swap trader before starting Ketto.*****

Ketto

Varun Sheth started the crowdfunding platform Ketto in the year 2012. Ketto since its inception has raised more than Rs 300 Cr with from over 2.5 million donors. The platform has been used for various purposes like children's successful BMTs, thousands of underprivileged children receiving education and mid-day meals, martyr's families' future being protected, effective disaster management being facilitated, wildlife being protected, neglected sportsmen getting a chance to represent India.

Awards and recognition