Discovering the Market in Class 9

Shaurya found the stock market in Class 9. With no mentors in his town and nothing about markets in the school syllabus, he taught himself — how Indian markets work, how trading works, how to read movements. By Class 10, he had started practising and trading for real.

But he didn't stop at the stock market. Curious about technology with no one around to guide him, he taught himself how crypto worked, how forex markets moved, how blockchain functioned, how websites were built, and — most importantly — how artificial intelligence is made. He didn't just learn AI; he started building it.

The Months That Changed His Mind

Like so many Indian students, Shaurya was pushed toward the JEE path. He went to Kanpur for coaching, into the same pressure-cooker environment millions of students endure. Within two months, his health collapsed.

He contracted dengue. His platelet count crashed to 15,000, with infections reaching his liver and kidneys. Doctors told him that had he come even a little later, he might not have survived. He spent two months in recovery — and came out with a conviction that would define him: that blindly chasing JEE, at the cost of everything else, was not the only path, and for him, not the right one.

He completed Class 12 in 2024. But his belief had hardened: an IIT is a college, not a career. He decided to bet on building instead.

A Friendship Since Class 7

Shaurya didn't build STOXRA by himself. Beside him was Khushi Agrahari, his co-founder — and one of his oldest friends. The two have known each other since Class 7, when they first met at a school annual function, performing together as Radha and Krishna. They've been friends ever since.

Together they shaped and polished STOXRA's core idea — the platform, the vision, and the AI Mentor at its heart. Their strengths complement each other: where Shaurya is the self-taught builder, Khushi is the academic star — a topper, consistently at the top of her class. Today she serves as Co-Founder, CFO and CPO, the second pillar of the company. Learn more in The Story Behind STOXRA.

The Moment It Felt Real

For Shaurya, STOXRA became real the day he sat across from investors with nothing but a prototype, a vision, and two years of preparation behind him. They questioned him hard — about the stock market, about how it all worked. As he answered, their scepticism turned to surprise. They were shocked at how deeply a 19-year-old understood the markets — and they believed in him. That first round closed on the strength of the idea and the prototype alone.

And then there was his mother. She had always been anxious — a single mother who had struggled so much, watching her son refuse the safe, normal path. She never stopped him, but she worried. The day STOXRA launched, she finally believed.

Where He's Taking STOXRA

Shaurya's vision is deliberately big. In countries like the US, more than 50% of people take part in the stock market. In India, only 1–2% have a demat account. He sees that gap as the opportunity of a generation — and the gap that STOXRA exists to close.

His five-year dream is all of it at once: to make STOXRA India's #1 trading education platform, to bring millions of young Indians into the markets the right way, and to build a global AI fintech from India. For a boy who was laughed at in Class 2 and left home at 11, it's not just ambition — it's a continuation of everything he's already proven he can do.

That vision reaches beyond trading. Through the Stoxra Ambassador Club (SAC) — open to both college and school students across India — Shaurya wants to build a community where young people grow their ideas, launch startups, and find the motivation and network they rarely get elsewhere. With regular events run by the team, SAC is designed to do for the next generation of student-founders what no one did for him: give them a place to believe they can build. Read more in What is the Stoxra Ambassador Club?

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