Top 10 India's Richest Startup Founders
A startup is a young enterprise set up to create a new product or service and introduce it to the market through one or more founders. By its essence, with initial support from the entrepreneurs or their friends and family, the traditional startup appears to be a shoestring operation. Posted On October 27th, 2020
Divyank Turakhia
The Founder of Directi is Divyank Turakhia. He has helped Directi expand from a startup to a worldwide business. He was the driving force behind the constant development, creativity and expansion of Directi. He has been deeply involved over the years in developing the organisational framework required to support the steady growth of Directi, and in forging strategic relationships that are key to maintaining the size. His valuable contribution has helped Directi to rank consecutively among the Top 500 fastest-growing technology companies in Asia for 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008.
Vijay Shekshar Sharma
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is a billionaire businessman from India. He is the founder of Paytm, a financial services business. With a net worth of $2.1 billion, Sharma was rated by Forbes as India's youngest billionaire in 2017. He was on Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential individuals in 2017.
Nithin Kamath and Family
The founders of Zerodha, India's largest stock trading firm in terms of trade value, Nithin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath, and True Beacon, an asset management company (AMC), are the newcomers to Forbes ' list of India's 100 richest in 2020. It is estimated that their net worth is $1.55 billion.
Dhiraj Rajaram
Dhiraj C Rajaram is an Indian entrepreneur and Mu Sigma Inc, a provider of analytics and decision science solutions, is the founder, chairman and CEO. Formed in Chennai, India, in 1975, he was raised in Bengaluru, India.
Binny Bansal
Binny Bansal is a billionaire Internet entrepreneur from India. He co-founded the Flipkart e-commerce platform with Sachin Bansal in 2007 and served as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016, before being promoted to Chief Executive Officer.
Sachin Bansal
Sachin Bansal is a billionaire technology entrepreneur from India. He is best known as the co-founder of Flipkart, which Walmart purchased in 2018 for $16 billion. Bansal was CEO and chairman during his eleven-year tenure at Flipkart. Following the Walmart contract, Bansal left Flipkart in 2018.
Bhavish Agarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal is the Co-Founder & CEO of Ola, one of the largest ride-sharing services in the world and the most popular transportation smartphone app in India. He started Ola (formerly OlaCabs) in 2010 with Ankit Bhati, a fellow alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, the country's flagship institution for technology and research, with the aim of creating mobility for a billion people.
Bjyu Raveendran
Byju Raveendran is a billionaire from India who is the founder of BYJU. In 2011, he founded Byju 's classes and has a net worth of 1.9 B. He is reportedly on the list of India's top 100 billionaires and is ranked 72nd.