India is the home of many successful companies and entrepreneurs from various domains such as tech, fintech ed tech e-commerce etc. A lot has changed and shaped the Indian market and economy.
It doesn’t just end here, India is also the home of the World’s 3rd largest ecosystem and India “Ranks 2nd” in innovation & quality with top position in publication and the quality of its universities among middle-income economies with more than 169 Billionaires in India.
So here is the list of 10 new Entrepreneurs who are changing the game of startups in India:
1. Sridhar Vembhu
Sridhar Vembhi is an Indian entrepreneur born in a village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. He completed his graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT Madras) in 1989 and then he went to Princeton University in New York to pursue his MS and PhD.
He is the founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation. The company that recently crossed a revenue of $1 Billion. He has also received the fourth largest civilian award, “Padma Shri”.
Zoho is one of the few startups in India that is profitable making him one of the “Best Entrepreneur” of all time.
2. Sachin Bansal
Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are the co-founders of India’s first e-commerce company Flipkart.com. With the boom in the startups in India, Flipkart became one of the biggest competitors of Amazon.com and kept a market share of 51%. Flipkart now has a valuation of $32 Billion making it one of the most valued and successful startups that laid the foundation of the startup and investment movement in India.
3. Vijay Shakehar Sharm
Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur based in Delhi. He completed his education from Delhi and started his journey building “Paytm”. Paytm is an online payment and financial service company which started the Digital Revolution in India.
Today Paytm has become one of the Leading India Payment apps. More than 20 Million merchants & businesses are digitally powered by Paytm to Accept Payments. They went Public (IPO) in 2021 and currently they are valued at more than $20 Billion.
4. Nikil Kamanth
Nikhil Kamath is the co-founder and CFO of one of India’s most profitable startup Unicorns named Zerodha. Zerodha is a financial services company that offers brokerage. It is a brokerage-free investment platform for retail, institutional broking, currencies, and commodities trading. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Bangalore and has a presence in nine Indian cities.
Zerodha is only one of the companies in India that have been started by Bootsraped. Nikhil also runs a podcast named “WTF” with with Various Indian content creators. Nikhil Kamtha is a dropout who turned into a billionaire.
5. Ritesh Aggarwal
Ritesh Aggarwal is the Co-founder of India’s largest hotel chain OYO. It was founded by 27-year-old Ritesh Agarwal, the first Asian resident to be accepted to the Thiel Fellowship (started by Paypal founder Peter Thiel). With over 100 million downloads, the OYO App was the 3rd most downloaded travel app in 2020.
6. Deepinder Goyal
Deepinder Goyal is the co-founder and CEO at Zomato. Zomato is one of the largest restaurant aggregators and food delivery companies based in India. It was founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah, and was originally called “Foodiebay”.
Today, Zomato represents a wide range of cultures through its diversified 5000+ team members, 3.5 lakh+ delivery partners, and of the finest restaurant partners.
Deepinder Goyal completed is education at IIT Delhi and is active on various social media platforms such as Linkedin and X(Twitter) He is going to be the judge on Shark Tank Season 3 (one of India’s largest startup founding shows).
7. Bhavish Aggarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Cabs, one of the largest auto cab servicing platforms in India. Ola Cabs is one of the fastest growing startups in India Bhavish Aggarwal completed his bachelor’s degree in CS from IIT Bombay and then after working for more than 2 years in Microsoft, he started Ola Cabs in 2010 with Anupam Mittal co-founder of Shaadi.com as an initial investor.
Today Ola is worth more than $8 Billion and filed for its IPO in 2024. Ola has a major share of 59% in the Travel tech industry.
8. Harsh Jain
Harsh Jain is a co-founder and CEO of Dream11 one of India’s largest Indian Fantasy dream platforms that has gained massive popularity among the youth of India.
Dream 11 is an Indian fantasy sports platform that allows users to play various sports such as football, cricket, hockey, football, kabaddi, handball, basketball, volleyball, rugby, futsal, American football and baseball.
In April 2019 Dream11 became the first and only fantasy sports company to become a unicorn in India. Dream 11 has now more than 200 Mn users from all over India. They have seen massive growth in their platform post-pandemic in India.
9. Falguni Nayar
Falguni Nayar is a founder and CEO of Nykaa. Nykaa is an e-commerce portal that sells fashion products Nykaa has more than 5 Million active users with 500 Brands and over 1,30,000 products available on their platform. Nykaa is a listed company on the Stock market with a valuation of around $6 Billion.
It is one of the most successful e-commerce brands in India. Falguni worked for several years before starting Nykaa. She completed her post-graduation from IIM Ahmedabad and later on she started Nykaa in 2012.
10. Deep Kalra
Deep kalra is CEO and chairman of MakeMyTrip. MakeMyTrip is an online platform that helps users with travel services such as flight booking, hotel reservation etc. Started in 2000 Now the company has more than 146 franchises operating in 100 countries operating in more than 100 cities with a market share of 53% in Indian online travel with a valuation of around $4.98 Billion.
Deep has completed his Master’s from IIM Ahmedabad. Deep Kalra’s story is a perfect example of how belief and determination can lead to great success in the future that helps to create a long-term impact.
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The list is endless as in the upcoming years. We can see more and more people quitting their 9-5 jobs and starting a venture that not only changes their life but creates a long-lasting impact in our society.
As it is said by Jeff Bezos Co-founder and CEO of Amazon.com, “the 21st Century belongs to the Indian growth story.”
India is growing and nobody can stop us from rewriting our growth story and proving to the world a fact why India is said to be a “Golden bird” in the 18th Century.
Thanks to these wonderful people who are working hard every day and contributing to build the future India.
