B’luru hub for self-made entrepreneurs
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Hurun India List
- 20 women entrepreneurs in the list
- Falguni Nayar leading the pack
- List features 80-yr-old Ashok Soota of Happiest Minds as the eldest
- While Zepto’s Kaivalya Vohra is youngest at 21 yrs
- 1/3rd of list is aged under 40
Mumbai: Long touted as India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru has emerged as the biggest hub for most valued companies started by self-made entrepreneurs in this millennium, a report said on Thursday.
A majority 129 such industry leaders are from the Karnataka capital, which is ahead of Mumbai (78), and Gurugram and New Delhi (49), as per a report by Hurun India.
Radhakishan Damani of Avenue Supermarkets, which runs the D-Mart retail chain, leads the list of top-200 self-made entrepreneurs of the millennium as the 2000-founded company has a market capitalisation of Rs2.38 lakh crore as of September.
Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal-founded Flipkart from Bengaluru comes second with an equity value of Rs1.19 lakh crore, while Gurugram-headquartered Zomato founded by Deepinder Goyal comes third with a market capitalisation of Rs86,835 crore.
