Caste Segregations of Indian unicorns










Population stats:
 

Brahmin population:

https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/brahmins-in-india/234783

Around 5.6 crore (56 million)

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Agarwal population:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490109/

13 million

Jain population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism_in_India

4.4 million

Maheshwari population:

3 million

Agarwal plus Jain plus Maheshwari: 21 million

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Gupta population:

https://forebears.io/surnames/gupta2.8 million

Some like Rastogi, etc do not use Gupta surnames

So, total Gupta community is estimated to be 4 million

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Khatri caste population:

https://www.peoplegroups.org/Explore/groupdetails.aspx?peid=41279

2.1 million as per research, but add Sindhi Arora surnames (common with Punjabi Arora) and some other relevant groups (Chaudhary living in non-Punjab region, common surname with Punjabi Chaudhary). We get 5 million max population.

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Gujarati Vaishya population:

5% of Gujarat’s population is Vaishya caste.

From here, I estimate 3 million population.

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Kayastha population:

https://www.peoplegroups.org/Explore/groupdetails.aspx?peid=41238

8 million as per research.

Coming to unicorn list,

https://www.easyleadz.com/blog/top-unicorn-startups-in-india/

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Khatri unicorns (40/102):

Here is a list of 40 unicorns in India where you have Khatri/Arora as a founder:

BharatPe: Ashneer Grover

Zomato: Pankaj Chaddah

upGrad: Ravijot Chugh

MakeMyTrip: Deep Kalra

Nykaa: Falguni Nayar

Zetwerk: Vishal Chaudhary

OfBusiness: Ruchi Kalra

ShareChat: Ankush Sachdeva

Verse Innovation: Umang Bedi

MyGlamm: Priyanka Gill

Groww: Neeraj Singh

BrowserStack: Ritesh Arora

BigBasket: Abhinay Choudhari

Mohalla Tech: Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Singh

Lenskart: Amit Chaudhary

Dailyhunt: Umang Bedi

Cars24: Vikram Chopra

Unacademy: Gaurav Munjal

Postman: Ankit Sobti

Druva: Jaspreet Singh

Rivigo: Gazal Kalra

Delhivery: Mohit Tandon

Billdesk: Ajay Kaushal

MPL: Shubham Malhotra, Shubh Malhotra

Coinswitch Kuber: Govind Soni

MobiKwik: Bipin Preet Singh

Acko: Varun Dua

Spinny: Niraj Singh

Slice: Deepak Malhotra, Rajan Bajaj

Pristyn Care: Vaibhav Kapoor, Garima Sawhney, Harsh Singh

Mamaearth: Ghazal Alagh, Varun Alagh

LEAD School: Sumeet Mehta

Uniphore: Umesh Sachdeva

Oxyzo: Ruchi Kalra

Purplle: Manish Taneja

Shiprocket: Gautam Kapoor

Tata 1mg: Prashant Tandon

ShopClues: Sanjay Sethi

Rebel Foods: Jaydeep Barman

Innovaccer: Kamal Hasija

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Agarwal/Jain/Maheshwari unicorns (34/102):

InMobi: Abhay Singhal

Flipkart: Binny Bansal, Sachin Bansal

Dream11: Harsh Jain

OLA: Bhavish Agarwal

OYO: Ritesh Agarwal

Zomato: Deepinder Goyal

Moglix: Rahul Garg

Policy Bazaar: Alok Bansal

CoinDCX: Neeraj Khandelwal

Pine Labs: Rahul Garg

Droom: Sandeep Agarwal

OfBusiness: Nitin Jain

Meesho: Sanjeev Baranwal

Digit Insurance: Kamesh Goyal

Groww: Ishan Bansal

Browser Stack: Nakul Agarwal

OLA electric: Bhavish Agarwal, Ankit Jain

Lenskart: Peeyush Bansal

Glance: Abhay Singhal

Cars24: Mehul Agarwal, Ruchit Agarwal

Rivigo: Deepak Garg

MindTickle: Mohit Garg

Vedantu: Pulkit Jain

Coin Switch Kuber: Ashish Singhal

Cars Dekho: Amit Jain, Anurag Jain

Cure.Fit: Mukesh Bansal

No Broker: Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg

Global Bees: Nitin Agarwal, Supam Maheshwari

Fractal Analytics: Pranay Agarwal

Elastic Run: Shitiz Bansal

Oxyzo: Nitin Jain

Uniphore: Ravi Saraogi

First Cry: Supam Maheshwari

XPress Bees: Supam Maheshwari

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Gupta unicorns (12/102):

Inmobi: Amit Gupta

CoinDCX: Sumit Gupta

OfBusiness: Bhuvan Gupta

Verse Innovations: Virender Gupta

Innovacer: Sandeep Gupta

Udaan: Vaibhav Gupta

Daily Hunt: Virender Gupta

Unacademy: Sachin Gupta

Licious: Vivek Gupta

NoBroker: Akhil Gupta

Spinny: Mohit Gupta

Oxyzo: Bhuvan Gupta

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Gujarati Vaishya unicorns (8/102):

InMobi: Piyush Shah

PharmEasy: Dhaval Shah

CRED: Kunal Shah

Ola Electric: Anand Shah

Glance: Piyush Shah

Big Basket: Vipul Parekh

Apna: Nirmit Parikh

My Glamm: Darpan Sanghavi

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Brahmin unicorns (35/104):

Inmobi: Naveen Tewari

PhonePe: Rahul Chari

BYJU: Divya GokulNath

Dream11: Bhavit Sheth

Freshworks: Vijay Shankar, Shaan Krishnasamy

Pine Labs: Tarun Upadyay

Zetwerks: Amrit Acharya, Rahul Sharma, Srinath Ramakkrushnan

BlackBuck: B. RamaSubramaniam

Ofbusiness: Asish Mohapatra, Vasant Sridhar

PharmEasy: Dharmil Sheth

Meesho: Vidit Aatrey

Infra Market: Aditya Sharda, Souvik Sengupta

Digit insurance: Shriram Shankar

Five Star Business Finance: VK. RangaNathan

Gupshup: Beerud Sheth

ChargeBee: Krish Subramaniam

PayTM: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

PayTM Mall: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Zerodha: Nithin Kamath, Nikhil Kamath

Glance: Naveen Tewari

DailyHunt: Umesh Kulkarni

Bill Desk: MN. Srinivasu, Karthik Ganapathy

Vedantu: Vamsi Krishna

Coin Switch Kuber: Vimal Sagar Tiwari

Rebel Foods: Kallol Banerjee

MobiKwik: Chandan Joshi

Mensa: Ananth Narayanan

Upstocks: Srinivas Vishwanath

Elastic Run: Sandeep Deshmukh

Livspace: Ramakanth Sharma

Amagi: Baskar Subramaniam

Oxyzo: Vasanth Sridhar, Asish Mohapatra

Games 24*7: Bhavin Pandya

Physics Wallah: Alakh Pandey

Purplle: Rahul Dash

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Kayastha unicorns (11/104):

Inmobi: Mohit Saxena

PhonePe: Sameer Nigam

Ofbusiness: Chandranshu Sinha

Urban Company: Raghav Chandra

Renew Power: Sumant Sinha

Glance: Mohit Saxena

Postman: Abhinav Asthana

RazorPay: Harshil Mathur

Vedantu: Saurabh Saxena

ElasticRun: Saurabh Nigam

Hasura: Rajoshi Ghosh

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Startups in USA with Indian founders:

There are 110 Indian founders in US who run unicorn, not listed in above list.

The list is here:

https://www.failory.com/startups/united-states-unicorns

Instacart: Apoorva Mehta (Marwari)

Laceworks: Sanjay Kalra (Khatri), Vikram Kapoor (Khatri)

Netskope: Krishna Narayanaswamy (Brahmin), Ravi Ithal (Brahmin), Sanjay Beri (Khatri)

Carta: Manu Kumar

Automation Anywhere: Ankur Kothari (Marwari), Mihir Shukla (Brahmin), Neeti Mehta (Khatri), Rushabh Parmani

Rippling: Prasanna Sankar (Brahmin)

Benchling: Ashutosh Singhal (Agarwal)

Better dot com: Viral Shah (Guj VS), Vishal Garg (Agarwal)

Workato: Gautham Viswanathan (Brahmin), Harish Shetty (Bunt), Vijay Tella

6Sense: Premal Shah (Guj VS), Viral Bajaria

Color: Nish Bhat (Gujarati non-Baniya)

Socure: Sunil Madhu

ThoughtSpot: Abhishek Rai (Khatri), Ajeet Singh (Rajput), Amit Prakash, Priyendra Deshwal (Jat), Priyendra Deshwal (Jat), Sanjay Agrawal (Agarwal), Shashank Gupta (Gupta), Vijay Ganesan

Rubrik: Arvind Jain (Jain), Arvind Nithrakashyap (Brahmin), Bipul Sinha (Kayastha), Soham Mazumdar (Teli)

Farmers Business Network: Amol Deshpande (Brahmin)

ClubHouse: Rohan Seth (Khatri)

FalconX: Prabhakar Reddy (Reddy), Raghu Yarlagadda (non-Brahmin Telugu)

Cohesity: Mohit Aron

Alchemy: Nikil Vishwanathan (Brahmin)

Commure: Hemant Taneja (Khatri)

ChargeBee Technologies: KP Saravanan, Krish Subramanian (Brahmin), Rajaraman Santhanam (non-Brahmin), Thiyagarajan Thiyagu (non-Brahmin)

Indigo AG: Rahul Bhatia (Khatri), Rakesh Gangwal (Jain)

Tekion: Guru Sankararaman (Brahmin), Jay Vijayan

WorkRise: Sandeep Jain (Jain)

o9 Solutions: Chakri Gottemukkala, Sanjeev S. Sidhu (Khatri)

Founders: Rajat Bhargava (Brahmin)

Cleri: Venkat Rangan

Pendo: Rahul Jain (Jain)

Plume: Aman Singla (Agarwal)

Aura: Hari Ravichandran (Brahmin)

Reify Health: Pramod Verma (Gupta)

Eight Fold AI: Ashutosh Garg (Agarwal), Varun Kacholia (Maheshwari)

Moveworks: Bhavin Shah (Guj VS), Vaibhav Nivargi (Brahmin), Varun Singh (Khatri)

Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh

Spring Health: Abhishek Chandra (Kayastha)

Harness: Jyoti Bansal (Agarwal), Rishi Singh (Rajput)

Reltio: Manish Sood (Khatri)

Extend: Rohan Shah (Guj VS)

Truepill: Sid Vishwanathan (Brahmin)

Athelas: Deepika Bodapati (Brahmin), Tanay Tandon (Khatri)

Cambridge Mobile Telematics: Hari Balakrishnan (Brahmin)

Mu Sigma: Ambiga Subramanian (Brahmin), Dhiraj C Rajaram (Brahmin)

Solugen: Gaurab Chakrabarti (Brahmin)

Coda: Shishir Mehrotra (Khatri)

Phenom People: Hari Bayireddy (Kapu), Mahe Bayireddy (Kapu)

Symphony: Romesh Wadhwani (Khatri/Sindhi)

Signifyd: Rajesh Ramanand (Brahmin)

YugaByte: Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan (Brahmin)

Starry: Chaitanya Kanojia (Dalit)

Agent Sync: Niranjan Sabharwal (Khatri)

Alation: Venky Ganti (Brahmin)

SeekOut: Aravind Bala (Bengali), Vikas Manocha (Khatri)

Starburst: Anu Sudarshan (Brahmin)

Vectra Networks: Hitesh Sheth (Brahmin)

IRL: Krutal Desai (Brahmin)

CloudBees: Vivek Pandey (Brahmin)

Karat: Mohit Bhende (Marathi)

Turing: Jonathan Siddharth, Vijay Krishnan (Brahmin)

InstaBase: Anant Bhardwaj (Brahmin)

Mixpanel: Suhail Doshi (Brahmin)

Axtria: Jaswinder Chadha (Khatri), Navi Chadha (Khatri)

Tresata: Abhishek Virendra Mehta (Marwari)

Esusu: Samir Goel (Agarwal)

Forte Labs: Mahesh Vellanki (Kamma)

Minio: Anand Babu Perisamy (non-Brahmin Tamil), Garima Kapoor (Khatri), Harshavardhana

Shipbob: Dhruv Saxena (Kayastha), Divey Gulati (Khatri)

Snorkel AI: Paroma Varma (Khatri)

Vise: Runik Mehrotra (Khatri), Samir Vasavada (Bhil)

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