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Top 10 youngest Indian entrepreneurs of 2025–26: Hurun U40 founders lead enterprises valued at one-eleventh of India’s GDP

Top 10 youngest Indian entrepreneurs of 2025–26 list: Sanjay Byalal Jagannath, co-founder of Bengaluru-based Exponent Energy, is the youngest Indian entrepreneur to be featured on the Hurun list.

2 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jan 27, 2026 06:41 AM IST

Top 10 U40 Hurun India Youngest Entrepreneurs in 2025-26 (From L to R: Sanjay Byalal Jagannath, Vivek Mishra, and Sanjeev Barnwal)

Top 10 youngest Indian entrepreneurs of 2025–26: India is the world’s fastest-growing economy, powered by young entrepreneurs driving growth and reshaping industries across the country.

The Avendus Wealth-Hurun India U40 2025 List, released on Wednesday, highlighted that its list of entrepreneurs leads enterprises worth $357 billion, or Rs 31 lakh crore, which is nearly one-eleventh of India’s GDP.

These entrepreneurs have collectively raised over $22 billion in total funding in 2025, the report further highlighted.

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Sanjay Byalal Jagannath, 36, co-founder of Bengaluru-based Exponent Energy, is the youngest Indian entrepreneur to be featured on the Hurun list.

Bengaluru, often called India’s Silicon Valley, leads the list with 48 featured entrepreneurs, reinforcing its status as the country’s top hub for founders under 40.

Beyond India, global hubs such as San Francisco, New York, and London also show a growing presence of Indian founders.

The 2025 list includes 15 women founders, reflecting gradual but meaningful progress in gender representation within India’s startup ecosystem.

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Shreya Mishra, 36, co-founder of SolarSquare, is the youngest woman entrepreneur to be featured.

India’s startup ecosystem continues to strengthen, with approximately 83 per cent of the list consisting of first-generation founders who built their ventures from the ground up.

Top 10 Youngest Entrepreneurs Featured in the Avendus Wealth – Hurun India U40 List 2025

Rank	Name	Age	Company	City of Residence
1	Sanjay Byalal Jagannath	36	Exponent Energy	Bengaluru
2	Vivek Mishra	36	Raphe mPhibr	Noida
3	Saurav Kumar	36	Euler Motors	New Delhi
4	Sanjeev Barnwal	36	Meesho	Bengaluru
5	Mohit Kumar	36	Ultrahuman	Dubai
6	Vishesh Khurana	36	Shiprocket	New Delhi
7	Swapnil Babanlal Jain	36	Ather Energy	Bengaluru
8	Swapnil Jain	36	Observe.AI	San Francisco
9	Ishaan Bector	36	Mrs Bectors Food Specialities	Gurugram
10	Enbasekar D	36	MediBuddy	Bengaluru

Source: Hurun Research Institute, Avendus Wealth – Hurun India U40 List 2025

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Note: The youngest 10 entrepreneurs are determined based on the birth month

Cherry Gupta

Cherry Gupta is an Assistant Manager – Content at The Indian Express. She leads the Top 10 section, curating list-based features on key national and international developments, and manages daily news content. She also produces SEO-driven articles and collaborates with the Lifestyle team to conduct interviews with notable artists and write workplace culture features. ... Read More