Published - Fri, 09 Jun 2023

Payoff For India’s Unicorn Revolution: How Unicorns Are Lifting The India’s Startup

Payoff For India’s Unicorn Revolution: How Unicorns Are Lifting The India’s Startup

India got its 100th Unicorn company in 2022 when Open, a neobanking fintech portal, secured new heights, boosting its worth to over 1 billion US dollars.

As of now, India has made it the world’s fastest-growing startup ecosystem. Unicorn eCommerce startups are becoming more popular in today’s competitive world, yet, creating a unicorn startup is not easy

Climbing the unicorn ladder takes a lot of hard work, devotion, and perseverance throughout the eCommerce startup’s journey. But the way Indian startups are gaining momentum- it’s just a thrill to watch. We will review the current Indian ecosystem valuation and what future ambitions the Indian administration is looking to add. 

Let’s first talk about the ones who have earned the moniker of unicorns are also described in this article.

Here we have the list of 100 Unicorn Companies 2022:

Startup  NameFounded InHeadquartersCurrent ValuationFounders
Open2008Bengaluru1 billionAjeesh Achuthan, Anish Achuthan, Deena Jacon, Mabel Chacko
LEAD School2012Mumbai1 billionSmita Deorah, Sumeet Mehta
Udaan2016Bengaluru3 billionSujeet Kumar, Amod Malviya, Vaibhav Gupta
Lenskart2010New Delhi2 billionPeyush Bansal, Amit Chaudhary, Sumeet Kapah
Grofers2013Gurugram1 billionAlbinder Dhindsa, Saurabh Kumar
Mohalla Tech2015Bengaluru2 billionAnkush Sachdeva, Farid Ahsan
MakeMyTrip2000Gurugram3 billionDeep Kalra
coinDCX2018Mumbai1 billionNeeraj Khandelwal, Sumit Gupta
InMobi2007Bengaluru12 billionAbhay Singhal, Amit Gupta, Mohit Saxena, Naveen Tewari
Flipkart2007Bengaluru38 billionBinny Bansal, Sachin Bansal
BharatPe2018New Delhi3 billionAshneer Grover, Bhavik Koladiya, Shashvat Nakrani
PhonePe2015Mumbai6 billionBurzin Engineer, Rahul Char, Sameer Nigam
OLA Cabs2010Bengaluru7 billionBhavish Aggarwal, Ankit Bhati
Swiggy2014Bengaluru7 billionNandan Reddy, Sriharsha Majety, Rahul Jaimini
Zomato2008Gurugram8 billionDeepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah
Freshworks2010California5 billionGirish Mathrubootham, Shan Krishnaswamy, Vijay Shankar
BYJU’S2011Bengaluru17 billionByju Raveendran, Divya Gokulnath
OYO Rooms2013Gurugram11 billionRitesh Aggarwal
Moglix2015Noida2 billionRahul Garg
Dream112008Mumbai5 billionBhavit Sheth, Harsh Jain
Policybazaar2008Gurugram3 billionYashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal, Avaneesh Nirjar
upGrad2015Mumbai2 billionMayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli, Ravijot Chugh, Ronni
Nykaa2012Mumbai3 billionFalguni Nayar
Pine Labs1998Noida3 billionRajul Garg, Tarun Upaday
OfBusiness  2015California1 billionAsish Mohapatra, Bhuvan Gupta, 
ShareChat2015Bengaluru3 billionAnkush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh
Verse Innovation 2007Bengaluru3 billionUmang Bedi, Virendra Gupta
MyGlamm2015Mumbai1 billionDarpan Sanghvi, Priyanka Gill
Innovaccer2014California1 billionSandeep Gupta
CRED 2018Bengaluru2 billionKunal Singh
Ola Electric2017Bengaluru1 billionAnkit Jain, Anand Shah
FirstCry2010Pune1 billionSupam Maheshwari, Amitava Saha, Prashant Jadhav, Sanket Hattimattur
Glance2019Bengaluru1 billionNaveen Tewari
Dailyhunt2007Bengaluru1 billionUmang Bedi, Umesh Kulkarni, Virendra Gupta
Zenoti2010Washington1 billionDheeraj Koneru, Saritha Katikaneni, Sudheer Koneru
RazorPay2014Bengaluru3 billionHarshil Mathur, Shashank Kumar
Unacademy2015Bengaluru4 billionGaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh, Roman Saini, Sachin Gupta
CitiusTech2005New Jersey1 billionJagdish Moorjani,
Rizwan Koita
Rivigo2014Gurugram2 billionDeepak Garg, Gazal Kalra
Druva2008California2 billionJaspreet Singh, Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman
Mindtickle2011California1 billionDeepak Diwarkar, Krishna Depura, Mohit Garg, Nishant Mungali
Matic Network / Polygon2018Mumbai10 billionAnurag Arjun, Jaynti Kanani, Mihailo Bjelic, Sandeep Nailwal
Delhivery2011Gurugram1 billionBhavesh Manglani, Kapil Bharati, Mohit Tandon, Sahil Barua, Suraj Saharan
 Billdesk2000Mumbai5 billionAjay Kaushal
Mu Sigma2004Bengaluru1 billionDhiraj C Rajaram
Apna2019Bengaluru1 billionNirmit Parikh
MPL2018Bengaluru2 billionSai Srinivas Kiran G, Shubh Malhotra, Shubham Malhotra
Licious2015Bengaluru1 billionAbhay Hanjura, Vivek Gupta
CoinSwitch Kuber2017Bengaluru2 billionAshish Singhal, Govind Soni, Vimal Sagr Tiwari
Vedantu2011Bengaluru1 billionVamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain, Saurabh Saxena, Anand Prakash
CarDekho2007Jaipur1 billionAmit Jain, Anurag Jain
MobiKwik2009Gurugram1 billionBipin Singh, Upasana Taku, Chandan Joshi
Acko2016Mumbai1 billionRuchi Deepak, Varun Dua
NoBroker 2014Bengaluru1 billionAkhil Gupta, Amit Kumar Aggarwal, Saurabh Garg
Spinny2015Gurugram2 billionMohit Gupta, Niraj Singh, Ramanshu Mahaur
Pristyn Care 2018Gurugram1 billionHarsimarbir singh, Dr. Garima Sawhney, Vaibhav Kapoor
Slice2016New York1 billionDeepak Malhotra, Rajan Bajaj
Gupshup2004California1 billionBeerud Sheth
Darwinbox2015London1 billionChaitanya Peddi, Jayanti Paleti, Rohit Chennamaneni
DealShare2018Bengaluru2 billionRajat Shikhar, Sankar Bora, Sourjyendu Medda, Vineet Rao
ElasticRun2015Pune1 billionSandeep Deshmukh, Saurabh Nigam, Shitiz Bansal
Livspace2014Bengaluru1 billionAnuj Srivastava, Ramakant Sharma, Shagufta Anurag
Games 24×72006Mumbai2 billionBhavin Pandya, Trivikraman Thampy
Cars242015Gurugram1 billionGajendra Jangid, Mehul Agrawal, Ruchit Agrawal, Vikram Chopra
Eruditus2010Singapore2 billionAshwin Damera, Chaitanya Kalipatnapu
Chargebee2011San Francisco1 billionKrish Subramanian
Xpressbees2015Pune1 billionAmitava Saha, Supam Maheshwari
BrowserStack2011Mumbai4 billionRitesh Arora, Nakul Aggarwal
Zetwerk2019Bengaluru1 billionAmrit Acharya, Rahul Sharma, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Vishal Chaudhary
Blackbuck2015Bengaluru1 billionChanakya Hridaya, Rajesh Yabaji, Ramasubramaniam B
Droom2014Gurugram1 billionSandeep Aggarwal
Postman2014San Francisco6 billionAbhijit Kane, Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti
Rebel Foods2011Mumbai2 billionJaydeep Barman, Kallol Banerjee
Big Basket2011Bengaluru1 billionHari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar
NoBroker2014Bengaluru1 billionAkhil Gupta, Amit Kumar Aggarwal, Saurabh Garg
Icertis2009Washington3 billionMonish Darda, Samir Bodas
Mensa 2021Caythorpe1 billionAnanth Narayanan, Pawan Kumar Dasaraju
Cure.fit2016Bengaluru2 billionAnkit Nagori, Mukesh Bansal
Hasura2017San Francisco1 billionRajoshi Ghosh, Tanmay 
Uniphore2008Chennai2 billionRavi Saraogi, Umesh Sachdev
GlobalBees2021New Delhi2 billionNitin Aggarwal, Supam Maheshwari
Meesho2015Bengaluru3 billionVidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal
Five Star Business Finance1984Chennai1 billionV.K. Ranganathan
Zerodha2010Bengaluru2 billionNithin Kamath, Nikhil Kamath
CommerceIQ2012California1 billionGuru Hariharan
Amagi2009New York1 billionBaskar Subramanian, Srinivasan KA, Srividhya Srinivasan
CredAvenue2017Chennai1 billionKunal Shah
Oxyzo2017Gurugram1 billionAsish Mohapatra, Ruchi Kalra
Zeta2015Mumbai1 billionBhavin Turakhia, Ramki Gaddipati
Groww2017Bengaluru1 billionLalit Keshre, Harsh Jain
Paytm Mall2017Noida3 billionVijay Shekhar Sharma
ReNew Power2011Gurugram8 billionSumant Sinha
Upstox2010Mumbai3 billionRaghu Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Shrinivas Vishwanath
Mamaearth2016Gurugram1 billionVarun, Ghazal Alagh
Fractal Analytics2000New York2 billionRamakrshna Reddy, Pranay Aggarwal, Srikanth Velamakanni
Quikr2008Bengaluru1 billionPranay Chulet
Hike2012New Delhi1 billionKavin Bharti Mitta
Shopclues2011Gurugram1 billionSanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal, and Sandeep Aggarwal
Highradius2006Houston3 billionSashi Narahari
Pharmeasy2015Mumbai2 billionMikhil Innani, Dharmil Sheth, Dhaval Shah
Urban Company2014Gurugram2 billionAbhiraj Bhal, Varun Khaitan
Infra Market2016Mumbai2 billionSouvik Sengupta
Digit Insurance2017Bengaluru3 billionKamesh Goyal
Paytm2010Noida16 billionVijay Shekhar Sharma
Udaan 2016Bengaluru3 billionSujeet Kumar, Amad Malviya, Vaibhav Gupta
Note: Please note that all figures in the table are approximations and may vary.

Mr Piyush Goel, Hon’ble Commerce and Industry Minister of India, seemed highly gratified with the current performance of the Indian startup ecosystem. He tweeted, “India hits a century in style” after completing the Bengaluru-based neo banking startup “Open”. 

India Now Officially Grabs The Fourth Spot In Terms Of Global Unicorns After China

Last year in 2021, India surpassed the fourth rank by beating the United Kingdom(39) with 54 by December. It is fully motivated and appreciated by the efforts made by the government officials and certainly by the companies themselves.

It was challenging to break the momentum this time, and thus we are here to read about a new high crossed by the Indian startup ecosystem. 

Was This Mark Achieved Overnight?

“Absolutely Not”

Any achievement requires strong efforts, and this shows how severe and rigorous the Government Of India has been over the years to gain this position. 

The Government of India launched various critical small business or eCommerce startup initiatives like the most popular ‘Startup India, Stand-up India’ campaign to help entrepreneurs build their businesses. The Government of India has recognized over 65,000 startups as of February 2022, with over 50,000 firms reporting 13 lakh job creations.

But There’s A Catch

According to a VCCircle investigation, about a fifth of them is also established overseas for business, tax, and regulatory reasons. However, this study only looks at unicorn startups that were formerly private. The majority of these so-called unicorns are now not only publicly traded, but some are also no longer unicorns.

Last Words

Even though we’re still in the early stages of the unicorn revolution, it’s clear that India’s market has geared up to become an international leader with its unicorn company in 2022. Some stereotypes come about their views on Indian startups, but perhaps there are significant hurdles that the Indian startup ecosystem is likely to succeed.

There are plenty of Indian companies and entrepreneurs who are still trying to prove naysayers wrong. As more investments pour into India’s startup industry, this will likely continue to be a growing trend.

Not just this, but the Indian Unicorn Revolution seems to cross the China & USA ultimate mark with its expeditious startup growth rate.

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