India, April 26 -- Having assembled a capital markets stack, spanning APIs, AI-led tools, content, education and algorithmic investing, over the past five years, Raise Financial Services, the parent entity of investment tech platform Dhan, no longer wants to limit itself to stock trading. 

The idea is straightforward: if retail investors are becoming increasingly experimental and data-driven, then the platform should evolve from a transaction layer to a decision layer.

But this move is not random. Late last year, the startup raised $120 Mn in its Series B funding round from Hornbill Capital, MUFG, BEENEXT and others, catapulting its valuation to $1.2 Bn and allowing its entry into the country's coveted unicorn club. 

The infl...