MUMBAI: Forbes India has released its maiden ‘Tycoons of Tomorrow’ list featuring 22 young achievers in the fields of business, acting and sports.
India’s reigning badminton queen and Olympic Silver medalist PV Sindhu is the only sportsperson featuring in the list.
Also on the list is Radha Kapoor Khanna, whose link to sport is as an entrepreneur, not as an athlete.
Ms Kapoor Khanna, daughter of Rana Kapoor, the billionaire promoter of Yes Bank, is the founder of The Three Sisters: Institutional Office (a reference to Radha and her younger siblings Raakhe and Roshini), under which is DoIt Creations.
DoIt Creations has invested in Pro Kabaddi team Dabang Delhi as well Hockey India League franchise Dabang Mumbai. More recently, Kapoor Khanna partnered Darshana Bhalla, former chief executive of Mates, the entertainment vertical of advertising agency Madison, to launch DoIt Talent Ventures.
Mumbai-based DoIt Talent Ventures will develop talent across the creative industry with a focus on sports, entertainment, music and culinary verticals among others.
Besides that, DoIt Creations also holds the franchisee rights for Spanish dry cleaning chain Pressto, retails the French luxury brand Longchamp in India and runs the Sequoia-backed co-working space Awfis.
Forbes, known for its annual rich list, states this is an India-specific property adding the ranking is not based on their net worth alone.
Other prominent names in the list are Karan Adani, chief executive of Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone; Anant Goenka, group executive director of Indian Express; Ashni Biyani, managing director of Future Consumer; and the Birla scion Ananya Birla, founder of Svatantra Microfinance, co-founder, CuroCarte and co-founder of Mpower.
The list also includes Nadia Chauhan of Parle Agro fame; PC Musthafa, co-founder of iD Fresh Food; Girish Mathrubootham, founder of Freshworks.
Other names are Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath, the co-founders of Zerodha; Ameera Shah of Metropolis Healthcare; Siddharth Bindra of Biba Apparel; Anant Goenka of Ceat; Upasna Kamineni Konidela of Apollo Hospitals and Vikram Shroff of UPL.
Real estate developer Lodha group’s Abhishek Lodha; Archit Gupta, founder of Cleartax; Zorawar Kalra, founder of Massive Restaurants; actors Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar; Ankur Jain, founder of Bira 91 beer and Ritesh Agarwal of Oyo Rooms also feature in the list.
“The list recognises the scions of family-managed businesses, first-generation entrepreneurs, and actors and sportspersons, who have displayed the dynamism to revitalise an existing enterprise, or have created something new, and, in the process, redefined the rules of business, industry or their craft,” the magazine said.
