10 Richest Women In India And Their Mind Boggling Net Worth

If we talk about the rich business tycoons in India we often refer to the men. The shocking fact is that millionaires and billionaires in India are not only limited to men but rich women never get as much recognition as their male counterparts. So, we are here to make you aware of the richest women in India. Their whopping net worth is going to astound you.

Here we have listed the top 10 richest women in India and their net worth:

1. Savitri Jindal

Net worth: $18 billion 

Savitri Jindal manages the Jindal Group, which markets in steel, power, cement, and infrastructure. She is the wife of the late Om Prakash Jindal. She is the richest Indian woman. After her husband’s demise in a helicopter crash in 2005, Savitri took the responsibilities into her own hands. She even won the Hisar assembly seat twice after entering into politics. Among the top 10 of the Forbes India Rich List, Savitri ranked 7th.

2. Falguni Nayar

Net worth: $7 billion 

After the IPO and listing of her company, Nykaa, Falguni Nayar made headlines as she was declared India’s richest self-made woman billionaire. Falguni is a former investment banker, who has become the second wealthiest woman promoter in India after starting the beauty giant Nykaa in 2012. Her website and app are now used by millions of people.

Being one of the top online BPC spaces, the market capitalization of Nykaa’s promoter company FSN E-Commerce is Rs 1.043 trillion. Falguni holds a 54.25 percent stake in the company. This makes her one of the richest women in India.

3. Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Net worth: $4.9 billion

The first woman to run a listed Indian IT company, Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the executive director of HCL Technologies. She is the daughter of billionaire business tycoon Shiv Nadar who handed over the company to her in 2020.

She joined HCL in 2009, and before that she was a news producer. In the Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list in 2019, Roshni ranked 54th.

4. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Net worth: $3.9 billion 

Kiran is the founder and executive chairperson of a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited. She is also a member of the board of Infosys, a multinational IT company. Not only this, but she is also the former chairperson of IIM, Bangalore.

5. Vinod Rai Gupta

Net worth: $7.6 billion 

Most of you have heard about Havells India, an electrical equipment manufacturing company, Vinod Rai Gupta is the head of the company. She and her son Anil Rai Gupta have shares in the company. The company has around fourteen factories across India and sells in more than fifty countries across the world.

6. Leena Tewari

Net worth: $4.4 billion

USV Private Limited is a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Mumbai set up by the late Vithal Gandhi in 1961 with Revlon. It specializes in diabetic and cardiovascular drugs. Leena Tewari is the chairperson of the company after her father’s demise. In 2018, the company acquired German generics firm Juta Pharma.

7. Divya Gokulnath

Net worth: $4.05 billion 

In 2011, the online educational-technology company Byju’s was founded by Byju Raveendran and his wife Divya Gokulnath who is the co-founder. The company is now valued at US$21 billion. The company has listed investments from Tiger Global, Tencent, and Mark Zuckerberg. It has a million students enrolled and more than six million annual paid subscriptions. She is among the top 10 richest women in India.

8. Nilima Motaparti

Net worth: $2.4 billion 

Before joining Divi’s Laboratories in 2012 Nilima was into planning, material requirement, and financing and now she is the Director of pharma-major. It was founded by her father pharma legend Murali Krishna Prasad Divi.

9. Radha Vembu

Net worth: $1.8 billion

Radha Vembu’s stake in privately held Zoho Corp, a multinational technology company makes her one of the richest women of India. The company makes web-based business tools. The business was started initially by Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu as AdventNet in 1996. She is the sister of Sridhar. Radha is also a product manager for the email service, Zoho Mail. She happens to be a graduate of industrial management from IIT Madras.

10. Mallika Srinivasan

Net worth: $2.89 billion

Mallika Srinivasan is the chairperson and managing director of Simpsons and Co. aka Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE). Mallika is also the chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board constituted by the Government of India. Mallika was the mind behind the company’s massive growth by mass manufacturing tractors.

Being among the richest women in India, she was also a part of several industrial bodies like the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, the Confederation of Indian Industry, etc.