The LSE Directory / Fintech founders
Vivek Bajaj is an Indian trader, financial educator, and serial entrepreneur based in Kolkata who co-founded the market-analytics app StockEdge (2016) and the finance-education platform Elearnmarkets, both under Kredent InfoEdge, after building one of Kolkata's larger commodity and currency trading desks starting in 2006; his earlier ventures include Kredent Academy, iRage Capital, and QuantInsti. A chartered accountant and company secretary with an MBA from IIM Indore, he hosts the Face2Face interview series (started 2019), in which he interviews Indian traders and market experts, and which Elearnmarkets says has drawn over 50 million YouTube views. His personal YouTube channel, "Vivek Bajaj - 20 Years in Stock Market", shows about 1.03 million subscribers, and he describes himself as having roughly 20 years of experience trading equities, options, currencies, and commodities. He is the author of The Trading Edge: A Learner's Guide to Ace the Stock Market (HarperCollins India, 2026).
