Albinder Dhindsa
Co-founder & CEO, Blinkit
Rebuilt a struggling grocery startup into an India-defining quick-commerce brand.
Founders
Founders building India.
The people behind India's most-loved companies, how they started, what they built, and why it matters. A directory we're growing, one founder at a time.
Ananth Narayanan
Founder & CEO, Mensa Brands
Scaled Myntra to over $1.5B, then set out to build Indian consumer brands more capital-efficiently.
Bhavish Aggarwal
Co-founder & CEO, Ola
Started with cabs, now betting big on India-made electric mobility.
Deepinder Goyal
Co-founder & CEO, Zomato
Turned a menu-scanning side project into one of India's biggest food and delivery platforms.
Falguni Nayar
Founder & CEO, Nykaa
Left a long finance career to build India's leading beauty commerce company.
Harshil Mathur
Co-founder & CEO, Razorpay
Built the payments rails a generation of Indian startups runs on.
Kishore Biyani
Founder, Future Group
Built Big Bazaar and, with it, the template for modern Indian organised retail.
Kunal Shah
Founder & CEO, CRED
Built a members-only fintech brand by rewarding India's most creditworthy.
Nikhil Kamath
Co-founder, Zerodha
Co-founded India's largest stockbroker, and now interviews the people building the country.
Nithin Kamath
Co-founder & CEO, Zerodha
Built India's largest stockbroker without raising a rupee of outside capital.
Raj Shamani
Founder, House of X
Scaled a village-level detergent business, then turned content into a brand-building engine.
Ritesh Agarwal
Founder & CEO, OYO
Turned fragmented budget hotels into a global branded network, as a teenager.
Sachin Bansal
Co-founder, Flipkart
Co-built the company that taught India to shop online.
Sridhar Vembu
Co-founder & CEO, Zoho
Built a global software company, bootstrapped, from rural India.
Vidit Aatrey
Co-founder & CEO, Meesho
Turned resellers and tiny sellers into an e-commerce engine for Bharat.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Founder & CEO, Paytm
Turned a mobile recharge service into a household name in Indian digital payments.
Growing directory
We're adding founders every week.
This is the start of an open directory of the people building India. New founders go up regularly, built in the open, like everything else here.
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