Radhakishan Damani, veteran investor and founder of retail chain D-Mart, has topped the list of top 200 self-made entrepreneurs of the Millennia 2023, with a market capitalization of Rs 2.38 lakh crore.
He is closely followed by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal, founders of e-commerce behemoth Flipkart, with an equity value of Rs 1.19 lakh crore, according to an report of IDFC First Private Hurun India published on November 30.
The list also includes Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal and Dream 11 promoters Bhavit Sheth and Harish Jain, with a market cap of Rs 86,835 crore and equity value of Rs 66,452 crore respectively.
Notably, eight of the top 10 most valuable companies founded by the millennium are startups. The list includes 405 founders who have founded valuable companies in India since 2000. More than 56 percent of the founders on the list studied engineering, while 10 are chartered accountants and 7 are doctors.