Yashish Dahiya studied at IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. By 2007 he was working as an insurance broker. That year he reviewed his father's finances and found he had been mis-sold insurance.
In 2008 he founded Policybazaar with Alok Bansal and Avaneesh Nirjar. Info Edge backed the seed round of Rs 30 crore. Dahiya has said he would not have started without funding, because the opportunity cost was too high.
Intel Capital, Tiger Global, Premji Invest and others followed. SoftBank led a $238 million Series F in June 2018, which made Policybazaar a unicorn. Tencent invested in 2019 at a $1.5 billion valuation.
In February 2020 Dahiya became group CEO. PB Fintech listed on the NSE and BSE on 15 November 2021 after a Rs 5,625 crore IPO. FY24 revenue was Rs 3,438 crore with a net profit of Rs 64 crore.