Top 10 Entrepreneurs in India | Top successful entrepreneurs in india 2022-23

Entrepreneurship is always a talking point for the people and one of the questions that everyone wants to know is, who are the top entrepreneurs? Recently the culture of Entrepreneurship in India is booming, especially after the rise in internet connection. We have listed here a few of the top successful startup founders who are successfully pursuing their dream of being an entrepreneur.

List of top 10 Successful and young Entrepreneurs in india

Ritesh agarwal

Oyo rooms provides a affordable rooms across the india. He is youngest self-made billionaire and one of the top entrepreneurs in India. OYO raised $1 Billion till september 2018 and by 2020 Ritesh agarwal’s net worth estimated around $1.1 Billion or ₹7200+ crore. Ritesh has won several awards and appreciations including the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award. He always motivates young entrepreneurs and students. Ritesh Agarwal is one of the youngest self-made billionaire in the world and the successful entrepreneur of India.

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Ritesh Agarwal is the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms. OYO stands for “On Your Own” He was born in Odisha, India and spent his childhood in Titilaghrh. After finishing school, Ritesh moved to Delhi to pursue an undergraduate degree in 2011 but within two years of college, he dropped out of college,and founded his first company Oravel in 2012. In 2013 he has re-launched it as a OYO Hotels and Homes. Oyo has developed a network of 4,200 small hotels in 150+ cities across india till 2015.

Byju Raveendran

Byju Raveendran is co-founder of Byju’s. He was born in Kerala, India. His father and mother was a teacher by profession, and Byju Raveendran has also worked as a teacher before starting with his project. Byju’s was founded in the year 2011 and launched BYJU’s learning App in 2015. He is a young billionaire with a net worth of $3.05 billion as per Forbes list of India's 100 richest people in In September 2016, Mark Zuckerberg’s organization funded $50 million in Byju’s.

In 2018, Byju won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Startup category. In March 2020, Byju’s registered its revenue of ₹2,800 crores which is projected to grow more in coming years. India is the second-largest edtech market in the world after the United States. As of 2021 Byju Raveendran and his family’s wealth is estimated at ₹24,300 crores and that makes them the 67th richest Indians.

Bhavesh Aggarwal

Bhavesh Aggarwal is co-founder and CEO of Olacabs.com . Olacabs is well-known for its online cab service. Bhavesh completed his B.Tech from IIT Bombay in computer science and worked at Microsoft Research in Bangalore. He founded Ola in 2010. They received a $5 million investment from Tiger Global Management.

By 2014, they are successfully accepting more than 150,000 bookings per day. Ola won Startup of the year in 2015 from economic times and Bhavesh Aggarwal was listed for “30 under 30” by Forbes. Today, his company has a presence in more than 100 cities and countries like Australia and New Zealand. As of 2021, Ola is worth $6.5 billion and Bhavesh Aggarwal’s net worth is around $500 million.

Kunal Shah

Kunal Shah is the founder of CRED business model. Cred allows users to make credit card payments using an online application and offers many rewards. It is one of the fastest-growing unicorns of India. Kunal was a junior programmer in an outsourcing company and dropped out from an MBA course before he started his own project.

Other than cred, Kunal has founded Paisaback and Freecharge. As of 2021, the net worth of Kunal is estimated at $480 million and the Valuation of Cred is considering to be $2.2 billion. Kunal has investments in many startups, a few of them are Razorpay,Unacademy, and MPL.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder and CEO of Paytm. He was born in Uttar Pradesh, India on 7 June 1978. Vijay completed his engineering from Delhi. In 1997, he started a website called indiasite.net and sold it for $1 million. After that, he started one97 Communications which is also the parent company of Paytm.

He founded Paytm in august 2010 in Noida, Delhi. In 2014, they launched Paytm Wallet which happened to be a game-changer. Paytm became India’s first online payment application has over 100 million app downloads. He was India’s youngest billionaire in 2017 and get featured in the list of 100 most influential people in the world. The present Valuation of Paytm is considered to be $16 Billion. The current net worth of Vijay Shekhar Sharma is $2.3 billion.

Kamesh Goyal

Kamesh Goyal is the founder of Digit. Digit is an Insurance company that provides various kinds of insurance for Medical, home, car, office, etc. Ramesh is a graduate with a B.Sc degree as well completed MBA from Delhi University. Before starting Digit, he worked at Allianz India Liaison as a CEO and COO in the general insurance department.

Digit Insurance was founded in 2016 and got approval from IRDA(the Indian government’s Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority) in 2017. According to Digit Insurance, they have 20 million customers and completed 40,00,000 claims. The current valuation of a digit is around $3.47 Billion. Digit is the first Unicorn of 2021.

Deepinder Goyal

Deepinder Goyal is co-founder of Zomato. Zomato is one of the most successful food delivery services in India. Deepinder Goyal was born in Punjab, India, on 26th January 1983. He completed his study at the Indian Institute of Technology. After completing his graduation in 2006 he joined Bain and Company.

Later he founded a company called FoodieBay.com which was later renamed Zomato. In February, Company has raised USD 250 million from five investors. The online food delivery market is still growing in India and that will also help Zomato in the future to grow more. Today, the total market capitalization of Zomato is around $13 billion. As of 2021, the net worth of Deepinder Goyal is around ₹2200 crore.

Sachin Bansal

Sachin Bansal is co-founder is of Flipkart. Flipkart is India's biggest online store. Sachin Bansal was born in Chandigarh, India on August 5, 1981. Sachin has completed his computer engineering degree from IIT Delhi. He worked at Amazon Web Service which was very important for him before he started his own online startup. In 2007, Sachin Bansal founded Flipkart with his friend Binny Bansal.

In 2018, American giant Walmart bought a 77% stake in Flipkart which was the world’s biggest deal for an internet company. Sachin has also sold his stack to Walmart for over $1 billion and stepped down as a CEO and Chairman. He was in Flipkart for 11 years between 2007 to 2018. His net worth is around $1.2 Billion as of Sachin is currently managing director of Navi_group, which is a one financial service company.

Deep Kalra

Deep Kalra is founder of MakeMyTrip. Make My Trip is an Online Travel Company that provides booking facilities to travelers. He completed his bachelor's in economics and then studied at IIM Ahmedabad in 1992. Deep born in Hyderabad while studied in Delhi and Ahmedabad. Before he started Makemytrip, he worked at ABN AMRO and AMF Bowling. The growth of Makemytrip is raised along with the booming internet market.

The number of Users increased at the website as more people connected with the internet using smartphones. In 2008, the company touch ₹1000 crore as they successfully served 20,00,000 customers. The company listed in NASDAQ in 2010 shows the rise of Deep Kalra as well. In 2021, the market value of Make My Trip is considered around $2.6 billion. The Net worth of Deep Kalra is estimated at $136 million as of 2021.

Harsh jain

Harsh Jain is the founder of Dream11. Dream11 is an online fantasy sports platform that allows users to play fantasy sports like cricket, football, basketball, etc. Harsh Jain was born in 1987 in Mumbai and completed his education at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School. He co-founded dream11 with Bhavit Sheth in 2008. Harsh is CEO at dream11 which is one of the Unicorn online startups since 2019.

Harsh Jain is also the founder of Red Digital, a specialized social media firm working on marketing, management, app development, etc. Red Digital was acquired in its third year in 2013. Currently,Dream11 is India's biggest fantasy sports platform with more than 8 crores. Dream11 was the title sponsor for the world’s biggest T20 cricket tournament in 2020. The net worth of Harsh Jain is
around $100 million and the market valuation of Dream11 is estimated at $1 Billion.