Top 10 Richest People In Karnataka 2025

1. Azim Premji

• Net Worth: About ₹1,90,700 crore $23–24 billion)
• Industry: Wipro / IT Services & Software
• Insights: The “Czar of Indian IT,” Premji turned Wipro from a family-owned commodity business into a global tech leader. His philanthropic efforts through the Azim Premji Foundation make him among India’s most charitable billionaires

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2. N. R. Narayana Murthy

• Net Worth:
  ~US
  $5 billion (Estimated Jan 2025)
• Industry: Infosys / IT Services & Consulting
• Insights: Infosys co-founder Murthy is more accurately referred to as the “father of Indian IT.” A K’ton son, he is presently Chairman Emeritus and still world-famous technocrat and philanthropist.

3. Kris Gopalakrishnan

• Net Worth: Approximately ~$3.8 billion (May 2023; with slight appreciation thereafter).
• Industry: Co-founder of Infosys, Venture Capital
• Insights: Former COO of Infosys, now invests significantly in health-tech and AI start-ups through Axilor Ventures. He also invests in pioneering neuroscience research with IISc and other Bangalore-based start-ups.

4. Nikhil Kamath

• Net Worth: US $2.6 billion (March 2025)
• Industry: Fintech / Zerodha & True Beacon
• Insights: Born in Shimoga, he co-founded India’s largest stockbroker retail firm, Zerodha, and oversees True Beacon and Gruhas investments and holdings. Inducted into young-age finance innovation

5. Irfan Razack

• Net Worth:
  $6 billion (Forbes India, Oct 2024)
• Industry: Real Estate / Prestige Group
• Insights: Beginning in Bengaluru, Razack created the Prestige brand to India’s largest listed group in realty with iconic retail, residential, and office space developments

6. Azim Premji

7. Kiran Mazumdar‑Shaw

• Net Worth: ~US $3.3 billion
• Industry: Biotech / Biocon
• Insights: A biotech industrialist and founder of Biocon as a global brand that deals in insulin and biosimilars. She is also a strong supporter of scientists and doctors being women

8. Nandan Nilekani

• Net Worth: ~US~ $3.2 billion
• Industry: Technology / Infosys, UIDAI (Aadhaar designer)
• Insights: Infosys cofounder and mastermind behind India’s Aadhaar digital identity initiative. Blending technology innovation and social activism for digital public goods

9. Ranjan Pai

• Net Worth: ~US~ $2.8 billion
• Industry: Education & Healthcare / Manipal Group
• Insights: Manipal manipulator number two soaring on the world stage in the education and health businesses. Rising star among Karnataka wealth creators

10. Jitendra Virwani

• Net Worth:
  ~US
  $2.8 billion
• Industry: Embassy Group / Real Estate
• Insights: One of those who transformed Bengaluru city real-estate by bringing in green campuses, mixed-use developments, and smart buildings in South India and the world

Other names usually in local-dubbed line-ups: Rajesh Mehta (Rajesh Exports, Bengaluru jewelry magnate, net value more than US Dollar1.5 B)

Overview & Insights

• Karnataka’s billionaires are predominantly based in Bengaluru, a testament to its dual role as India’s IT hub and a vibrant hotbed of start-up innovation, biotech, finance, realty, and healthcare.
• Infosys and Wipro founding partners-turned-entrepreneurs—Murthy, Gopalakrishnan, Nilekani, and Premji—are at the top of the list.
• There’s a fresh, youthful generation of tech-finance billionaires such as Nikhil Kamath also joining the prosperity chain of Karnataka shortly.
• Realty business has such indefatigable business leaders as Irfan Razack (Prestige) and Jitendra Virwani (Embassy).
• Segmentation by sectors: Karnataka billionaires come from IT, biotech, fintech/investments, real estate, and education/healthcare.

Also read: https://neutralnewsreport.com/bina-ramani-biography-age-height-career-net-worth-in-2025/