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Brand assets, leadership bios, audited numbers, and the boilerplate Karzero language for newsrooms and analysts. Everything below is yours to use, with attribution.

Press contact · Anika Iyer · press@karzero.in · +91 22 6900 0000

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I.Boilerplate

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arzero is India's first zero-charge loan platform. Founded in 2026 and headquartered in Mumbai, Karzero is a Reserve Bank of India-recognised Lending Service Provider (LSP) operating under the 2022 Digital Lending Guidelines. The company partners with 10 RBI-compliant banks and NBFCs and absorbs every customer-facing charge — processing fee, insurance, GST, documentation, credit report — out of its lender-partnership margin. Customers pay only their EMI. The unit economics are published every month at the Karzero Ledger.

II.Fast facts
  • Founded

    2026 · Mumbai

  • Lending Service Provider

    RBI · LSP under the 2022 Digital Lending Guidelines

  • Lender partners

    10 RBI-compliant banks & NBFCs

  • Cities live

    7 cities — expanding monthly

  • Customers served

    26

  • Disbursed to date

    ₹5.94 Cr

  • Charges paid by customers

    ₹0 — always

  • Team size

    Under 30

III.Founder quotes
  • India’s lending market hides charges inside the EMI. Karzero is the only platform that absorbs them and publishes the math every month. That is the part we cannot fake.

    Aanya Iyer · Co-founder & CEO

  • Our P&L is publishable for the same reason your bank statement is yours: you paid for it. The Karzero Ledger is the bill of accounts for every customer we served.

    Raghav Bhattacharya · Co-founder & Head of Credit

IV.Brand assets

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V.Recent coverage

Karzero · Press archive

2026

  • 2026-04-18The KenThe Karzero gambit — can a fintech absorb every charge and still survive?Print & web
  • 2026-03-30Moneycontrol"Pay only your EMI" is a marketing line. Karzero is auditing it monthly.Print & web
  • 2026-02-12Inc42India’s first zero-charge LSP closes Series A, opens its books on the same day.Print & web

For analysts

Quarterly numbers and the methodology behind them — at the Karzero Ledger.