D-Mart’s Radhakishan Damani leads Hurun India’s self-made entrepreneur list

Radhakishnan Damani | At the top of the list is Radhakishan Damani, who is the man behind the supermarket chain D-Mart. The company, founded in 2000, enjoys a market capitalisation of over ₹2 lakh crore. (Image: X)

Binny Bansal & Sachin Bansal | With an equity value of ₹1.2 lakh crore, Flipkart Founders Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal rank second. While Sachin Bansal exited the company by selling his entire stake to Walmart in 2018, Binny exited Flipkart earlier this year. (Image: X)

Deepinder Goyal | Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO of Zomato, is at the third spot. Prior to starting Zomato with Pankaj Chaddah, Goyal was a management consultant with Bain and Company. Zomato went public in July 2021 and its current market value is over ₹86,000 crore. (Image: X)

Harsh Jain & Bhavit Sheth | Founders of Dream 11, Harsh Jain & Bhavit Sheth, rank fourth with an equity value of over ₹66,000 crore. In April 2019, Dream11 became the first Indian fantasy sport company to become a unicorn. (Image: X)

Sriharsha Majety & Nandan Reddy | Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy, who founded Swiggy in 2013 with Rahul Jaimini in Bengaluru, share the fourth spot with Dream11 founders. Majety is an IIT Kharagpur graduate while Reddy is an alumnus of BITS Pilani. Swiggy’s equity value is over ₹66,000 crore. (Image: X)

Harshil Mathur & Shashank Kumar | At the sixth spot are Razorpay’s Founders Harshil Mathur & Shashank Kumar. An IIT-Roorkee graduate, Harshil launched the fintech company in 2014, along with fellow Roorkee alumni Shashank Kumar. Razorpay has an value of over ₹62,000 crore. (Image: X)

Abhay Soi | Ranking 7th is Abhay Soi, Chairman & MD of Max Healthcare, which has a market capitalisation of over ₹55,000 crore. He played a pivotal role in the successful merger of Radiant Lifecare with Max Healthcare. (Image: X)

Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the man who founded Paytm in 2010 under One97 Communications, is at the eighth spot. He took the fintech company public in November 2021. Paytm has a market cap of around ₹54,000 crore. (Image: X)

Kunal Shah | At the ninth spot is Kunal Shah, the Founder of credit card payment platform CRED. The company, which was founded in 2018 in Bengaluru, has an equity value of over ₹53,000 crore. Before starting CRED, Shah launched PaisaBack but he shut it down to start Freecharge in 2010. (Image: X)

Nithin & Nikhil Kamath | Nithin & Nikhil Kamath, who founded brokerage firm Zerodha in 2010, rank tenth. Zerodha has an equity value of over ₹50,000 crore. The Kamath brothers’ venture capital fund called Rainmatter invests in fintech companies. (Image: X)