Top Entrepreneurs of India 2021 | 7 Entrepreneur of India

Hey Readers! You all must be aware of the term “Entrepreneur”. But have you ever wondered how an Entrepreneur is made? Or, do you want to be an entrepreneur? India is the world’s largest democratic country with rapid growth in the economy in the past few decades. Unsurprisingly, India has produced many successful entrepreneurs. In a world full of competition, there are two kinds of people living all over that is leaders and followers. The followers follow the path created by others, but the leader creates their own path and lays the foundation of their own universe, then, these leaders are said to be ENTREPRENEURS.  We are here with another article on the “Top Entrepreneurs of India 2021”

Let us find out the Top Entrepreneurs of India 2021 which made it to our list.

Who is an Entrepreneur?

An Entrepreneur is a person who organizes a business to benefit from an opportunity, despite working as an Employee. An Entrepreneur manages their own business and takes all sorts of risks to become successful. They are the one who has lightened the country’s Economy. They face many obstacles while building their venture but they have a clear vision and are passionate about their goal.

The above definition was proved right by many top entrepreneurs of India 2021. Now, let me take you to the big names of our nation.

List of Top Entrepreneurs of India 2021

V.G. Siddhartha

Veerappa Gangaiah Siddhartha was a Successful Indian Businessman from Karnataka who comes up with the idea of starting a coffee café chain of youth hangout parlors known as Café Coffee Day. He served as the chairman and the managing director of Mind tree and Way2wealth securities. He established his coffee trading company in 1993 in Karnataka, with a 6 crore turnover. He was the first entrepreneur from Karnataka to set up a café in 1996. As of 2020, the company had 1752 café outlets in over 240 cities of India. V.G Siddhartha was one of the top entrepreneurs of India 2021.

After his death in 2019, SV Ranganath has been appointed as the interim chairman and Malavika Hedge as CEO of Café coffee day Enterprises Ltd.

Kunal Shah

Kunal Shah, the MBA dropout has built a reputation after launching FreeCharge in 2010. It is a financial services company based in Gurugram, Haryana. These services are used for savings, payments, insurance, and lending. In 2011, Freecharge was named as the most promising startup from India by Pluggd.in. But, after few years in 2015, Snapdeal, an Indian e-commerce firm acquired Freecharge for Rs.2800 crore.

But Kunal Shah didn’t give up, he started an Indian Fintech Startup, nowadays popularly known as “CRED” which was founded in 2018 based in Bangalore. CRED’s main feature is to allow users to make credit card payments through the app and get rewarded for every payment they make through CRED. Later, CRED allowed users to pay house rental payments. CRED has 5.9 million users on board.

Deep Kalra

Deep Kalra is a successful Indian businessman born in Hyderabad and raised in New Delhi and Ahmedabad. He is the founder and CEO of the Indian Online Travel company which provides services including booking transportation tickets, holiday packages known as “MakeMyTrip” headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana.

He introduced MakeMyTrip in 2000 after realizing the advantages and the possibilities of the internet when he trying to sell his wife’s car through the internet. In September 2005, MakeMyTrip started Indian Operations, offering flight tickets online. Later on, the company was listed on the NASDAQ after its IPO.

Harsh Jain

Harsh Jain is one of the new Successful top entrepreneurs of India. He is the founder of an Indian fantasy sports platform known as “Dream 11”. This platform allows users to play fantasy cricket, football, basketball, hockey online.  In early 2012, Harsh introduced free fantasy sports in India with his co-founder Bhavit Sheth.

In 2014, the company registered 1 million users, which grew to 2.5 million in 2016, and later on in 2018, it jumped to 45 million. In April 2019, Dream11 became the first gaming company to become a Unicorn. Recently, Dream 11 has collaborated with the world’s largest cricket league IPL.

Khwaja Abdul Hamied

Dr. Khwaja Abdul Hamied was an Indian freedom fighter, a nationalist, and an anti-imperialist scientist who founded India’s oldest pharmaceutical company in 1935 called “CIPLA” headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was one of the 90’s business entrepreneurs of India.

Cipla develops medicines to treat diabetes, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, anti-depression medicines, and many other medicines.

After his death in 1972, his son Yusuf Hamied was appointed the head of the company to date. In 2019, Cipla has ranked the 42^nd largest publicly traded company.

 Deepinder Goyal

Many of you may not know the fact that Zomato was founded as Foodie bay in the year 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and was renamed Zomato in 2010. Zomato is an online food ordering platform headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. Earlier in 2010, Zomato was known as India’s largest restaurant guide controlling over 42,000 restaurants. The Deepinder Goyal story will be similar to other top entrepreneurs of India.

The idea to create an online food platform struck his mind when he saw people waiting in line for food. He created this online platform and connected to all restaurants and the rest is history.

The company owns 5000+ across several countries including India, UAE, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, Australia, Canada, and many more.

Last but not the least, The Youngest Top Entrepreneurs of India

Shreelakshmi Suresh

Shreelakshmi Suresh the youngest Women top Entrepreneur of India from Kozhikode, Kerala. She started web designing at the very young age of 10. She is the recipient of many international and national awards when she established “eDesign”- a venture which is turned into a web designing company that offers web design, SEO, and other web services.

She is known as the youngest CEO and the youngest Web Designers. She has developed 100 above websites for organizations in India!

In a nutshell

Every dream can come true if you have enough dedication and a focused mindset to pursue it.

I hope this article on “Top Entrepreneurs of India 2021” motivates you that focus on the startup idea that you have in your mind. Who else should be featured in this list according to you? Comment Down.