With Rs 23,000, Ganesh Parida launched Future Vending in Bhubaneswar, focusing on coffee vending machines. Offering quality products and good service, he built a Rs 3 crore turnover company, establishing a strong presence in Odisha, says Khimi Thapa

Starting Finelines with Rs 10 lakh in 2016, Raghav Kapoor, who first worked in a call centre for a salary of Rs 12,000, has built a Rs 7 crore turnover leather brand that makes bags, wallets, and accessories from premium French leather, says Shyla F

Manish Mohta founded Learning Spiral Pvt Ltd with Rs 1.85 lakh while doing his final year engineering in 2000. The ed-tech startup leverages IT and AI for exam assessments and has grown into a business with a Rs 31 crore turnover, says Khimi Thapa

B Vijayaraghavan, a diploma holder from Rajapalayam, started a knitting unit in 1995 in Tiruppur. His business, now making garments and the eco-friendly bamboo fibre innerwear brand Lavos, has achieved Rs 200 crore turnover, says Rama Devi Menon

Ashita Singhal launched her fashion brand Paiwand in 2018 with Rs 20 lakh, transforming textile waste into sustainable fabrics. Her Noida-based business now has a turnover of Rs 1 crore, and has repurposed 30,000 kg of textile waste, says Shyla F

Kadambari Umapathy, founder of WEDO, turned setbacks into success by creating a support network for women entrepreneurs. Starting with Rs 1 lakh, WEDO now has a turnover of Rs 40 lakh, providing essential resources and mentorship, says Khimi Thapa

Harshit Aggarwal set up Novamax Air Coolers at age 19 from Greater Noida. Starting from a small rented space, he built Novamax into a Rs 164 crore turnover brand in just six years, revolutionising the commercial air cooler market, says Usha Prasad

Sisters Anuja and Pratanksha Gupta founded Chowkhat in 2020 with just Rs 1 lakh, focusing on chikankari fashion. Despite pandemic challenges, they turned it into a successful fashion brand with a current turnover of Rs 5 crore, says Khimi Thapa

Senthil Sankar, a young entrepreneur from a small town in Tamil Nadu, transformed his father's small business into a Rs 80 crore turnover company. He promotes sustainability and makes eco-friendly T-shirts from recycled PET bottles, says Shyla F

Delhi girl Pritika Singh, born into a business family, started Mohh, an online furniture brand, at age 26. Investing Rs 40 lakh, she transformed her venture into a Rs 3.7 crore turnover in four years, relying entirely on digital sales, says Shyla F

Viren Khuller joined his family's business, STIM, in 2015, bringing innovation to the dental care brand founded by his grandfather with Rs. 10,000. Under Viren’s leadership, STIM’s turnover surged from Rs. 80 crore to Rs. 250 crore, says Shyla F

Four first-generation entrepreneurs from middle-class families with experience in waste management decided to create products following the principles of ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ and built a Rs 80 crore turnover business, says Rama Devi Menon

Due to his family’s financial struggles, Deepak Sahni started a computer hardware business at age 19 with Rs 2 lakh. He later founded a preventive care lab chain that has transformed Indian healthcare with a turnover of Rs 240 crore, says Shyla F

Growing up as an army brat to becoming a serial entrepreneur with a cumulative turnover of Rs 120 crore, Neha Juneja’s entrepreneurial spirit birthed IndiaP2P, a platform that uplifts rural women via a novel peer-to-peer lending model, says Shyla F

Mukesh Ambani's journey, from modest beginnings to owning one of the world's costliest residences, encapsulates the quintessential rags-to-riches narrative, epitomising the Indian dream of success against all odds. Khimi Thapa recounts his story