About Keystone
We're building the missing infrastructure
for India's gig workforce.
Keystone is the operating system for gig worker livelihoods: identity, gear, housing, and credit, integrated directly into the platforms where they work.
Our Story
We set out to sell jackets.
We found 12 million people the system forgot.
Keystone didn't start as a grand vision. It started with a purchase order: rider jackets for a major delivery platform's partners in Bengaluru.
But spending time with those riders changed everything. We saw how much they were paying for the same gear we were selling: 30 to 40% more, from local vendors who offered no credit, no records, no recourse. We saw workers who had completed 5,000 deliveries with no lease, no insurance, and no name in any financial system.
That's when we stopped thinking about jackets. And started thinking about infrastructure.
A rider earning ₹18,000/month was paying ₹7,000 to middlemen for a helmet, a rain jacket, a phone mount, and a shared room. That's 40% of their income.
What Drives Us
Building the infrastructure
India forgot to build.
India's gig economy is one of the fastest-growing in the world. The platforms that power it have raised billions. The workers who run it have almost nothing.
No portable identity. No credit history. No safety net.
Keystone exists to fix that, not with charity, but with a platform that makes financial dignity something workers earn through the work they're already doing.
How We Work
Three things
we believe in.
Workers first, always
Every product decision starts with one question: does this make life meaningfully better for a gig worker? If the answer isn't obviously yes, we don't build it.
Earn trust through the Bazaar
We don't ask workers to trust us with their data before we've proven our value. We start by saving them money on gear they already buy. Trust is built through transactions, not promises.
Infrastructure, not intervention
We're not here to run a welfare programme. We're building rails: a score, an identity, a financial layer that workers own and carry with them across every platform they ever work on.
The Team
Built by operators,
not theorists.
We came to this from the ground up, working with riders, watching how they lived, understanding what the system gets wrong.
Co-founders
