Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar: India has a new self-made woman billionaire

Shares in FSN E-Commerce Ventures — the proprietor of cosmetics e-commerce web site Nykaa — have surged since they started buying and selling in Mumbai this week. The inventory has greater than doubled its problem value, making the corporate price practically $14 billion, eleven instances the valuation in its final personal funding spherical in 2020.

As a outcome, founder and CEO Falguni Nayar — one of many few Indian ladies to begin and lead a tech firm price greater than $1 billion — has seen her internet price soar to virtually $7 billion. That makes her the nation's latest self-made billionaire, in accordance with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Nykaa, which implies "actress" in Sanskrit, now presents over 4,000 manufacturers on its web site. It recorded 24.5 billion rupees ($330 million) in income within the fiscal 12 months led to March.

Nayar studied on the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, the nation's most prestigious enterprise faculty. She is now India's wealthiest self-made feminine billionaire, in accordance with Bloomberg.

India's billionaires have gotten richer

Mukesh Ambani — chairman of the sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries — is now price greater than $97 billion, over $20 billion greater than a 12 months in the past, in accordance with Bloomberg. Not far behind him is Adani Group founder Gautam Adani, whose wealth skyrocketed from lower than $30 billion this time final 12 months to over $85 billion at the moment.

Earlier this 12 months, meals supply big Zomato turned the primary Indian tech unicorn — a time period used for startups price over $1 billion — to go public.Nykaa is not the one excessive profile public debut this month, both. Payments agency Paytm launched a $2.5 billion IPO, India's largest ever. It's anticipated to begin buying and selling subsequent week.