Small team.
Big mission.
TopFund is built by two co-founders who believe every Indian deserves the same quality financial tools that institutions pay lakhs for — completely free.
Shivangi Dudhat
Co-Founder & CTO
I lead product and engineering at TopFund — the mutual fund screener, IPO GMP tracker, calculators and every data pipeline behind them.
We started TopFund because we were tired of seeing Indian retail investors — our own family, our own friends — struggle with expensive, cluttered, or downright misleading financial apps. Someone had to build a clean, honest, free alternative.
Nights, weekends, coffee-fueled debugging sessions — and here we are: 8,786+ mutual funds, live IPO GMP, 29 calculators, bonds, gold rates, global markets. All free. No paywall. No dark patterns.
Tech skills
Chandni Chotaliya
Co-Founder & CMO
I lead growth, content and community at TopFund — making sure every feature we build actually reaches the investors who need it.
Every day I talk to real users — students doing their first SIP, parents deciding whether to apply for an IPO, retirees checking gold rates — and bring what they need straight back into the product.
This is just the beginning. Every feature we build, we build because a real Indian investor needed it.
Growth skills
Recently shipped
What powers TopFund
Every tool in the stack was chosen for reliability, speed and cost-efficiency
Ruby on Rails 7.2
Web Framework
Production-grade Rails app with Hotwire/Turbo for real-time UI updates without React.
PostgreSQL
Database
Stores 8,786+ fund records, NAV history, IPO data and user portfolios reliably.
Sidekiq + Redis
Background Jobs
Processes 15+ scheduled jobs: GMP updates, NAV sync, news aggregation, gold rates.
Tailwind CSS
Design System
Utility-first CSS with custom card components. Mobile-first, responsive design.
DigitalOcean
Infrastructure
Droplet server + Managed PostgreSQL. Deployed via Capistrano on every git push.
OpenAI GPT-4
AI Advisor
Powers the AI Fund Advisor — answers fund questions in plain Hindi/English.
AMFI + mfapi.in
Fund Data
Mutual fund NAV and scheme data sources — AMFI is the industry body SEBI recognizes for fund data; mfapi.in is an independent, unofficial wrapper around it, not itself SEBI-affiliated.
Cloudflare
CDN + Security
DNS, SSL termination, DDoS protection and global CDN for fast page loads.
Resend
Email Service
Transactional emails via HTTP API — Devise auth, newsletters, IPO alerts.
User first
Every feature decision starts with: does this make life easier for a real Indian investor? If not, we don't build it.
Radical openness
Free forever. No hidden costs. No data selling. No upsells. What you see is what you get — always.
Ship fast, fix fast
New features ship in days, not months. Bugs get fixed same day. Speed is how we respect users' time.
Join us on the mission
Have a feature idea? Found a data bug? Want to collaborate? TopFund is built in the open, for every Indian investor. Your feedback directly shapes what gets built next.