{"id":20000,"date":"2025-07-10T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=20000"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:39:41","slug":"richest-indian-american-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/richest-indian-american-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes 2025 List of Richest Immigrants USA has 12 Indian American Billionaires with Total Net Value $55bn"},"content":{"rendered":"
The global Indian community has been googling who are Indian-origin billionaires among the richest immigrants in America since Forbes\u2019 2025 list was published<\/strong>. For the first time, 12 Indian Americans made it to the Forbes list of billionaires, with Jay Chaudhry having retained the distinction – the wealthiest Indian-origin billionaire in USA \u2013 since 2021. His net worth rose to $17.9bn from $12bn in 2021. America\u2019s highest paid CEO Nikesh Arora, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Atlanta-based Raj Sardana, a self-made billionaire, are the newcomers in the elite club of America\u2019s billionaire immigrants.<\/p>\n With a net worth of $17.9 billion, Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, is the richest Indian American billionaire and one of the 10 <\/b>wealthiest immigrants in the USA. <\/b><\/span><\/span>His journey from a small Himalayan village to Wall Street is an inspiring story of American Dream. Born in a remote village without running water in Himachal Pradesh, Jay Chaudhry<\/span><\/a> is a leading cyber security business tycoon in San Francisco<\/span><\/a> Bay Area<\/strong>. He co-founded Zscaler, a virtual security check-post for companies exposed to cyber threats, in San Jose after a short stint in sales and marketing positions at MNCs like IBM. He is an alumnus of Harvard University and the University of Cincinnati. Unlike other billionaires, he says \u201cMy success so far has mainly been because I have very little attachment for money.<\/strong> I definitely do not feel like a billionaire even with a multibillion-dollar fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n Vinod Khosla’s net worth has swelled to $9.2 billion from USD 2.3 billion in 2020.<\/strong> Sun Microsystems\u2019 ex-cofounder Vinod Khosla is now the second richest of all Indian American billionaires, according to Forbes 2025. An alumnus of Mount St Mary\u2019s School in New Delhi<\/span><\/a>, he studied at IIT Delhi, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.<\/strong> A newspaper article on the founding of Intel piqued his interest in technology when he was a teenager. He established Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California and co-founded the Indus Entrepreneurs (NiE), a non-profit network of entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n Miami-based Rakesh Gangwal, with a net worth of $6.6 billion, is on <\/b>Forbes 2025 list of richest immigrants in America. <\/b>A former co-founder of IndiGo, India’s largest low-cost airline, Rakesh Gangwal topped the list of 10 Indian-origin American billionaires in 2018. With a drastic dip in his fortunes due to the pandemic’s impact on aviation, Kolkata<\/span><\/a>–<\/strong>born Rakesh Gangwal’s net worth dropped to $2.3 billion in 2020. <\/strong>An alumnus of IIM Lucknow in mechanical engineering, he studied MBA at Wharton School of Pennsylvania University and fulfilled his American Dream when he became the Chairman of US Airways Group after a stint in strategic planning for United Airlines in 1984. He founded InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. in 2000 and co-founded IndiGo in 2006. Today, IndiGo is the Indian airline in terms of domestic market share.<\/p>\n Symphony Technology Group\u2019s founder and CEO Romesh T. Wadhwani from California with a net worth of $5bn continues to be among the 10 richest Indian American billionaires in 2025. His fortunes rose from <\/strong>$3.4 billion in 2020<\/strong>. Romesh Wadhwani is not just the richest Gujarati Indian entrepreneur in USA but a compassionate philanthropist too. His family shifted from Pakistan to India during the 1947 Partition. He is an alumnus of IIT Bombay in electrical engineering and holds a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Romesh T. Wadhwani is a self-made serial entrepreneur. He set up the Wadhwani Foundation with several initiatives including the National Entrepreneurship Network to drive socio-economic development in countries like India. In 2012, he opened a research center at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Forbes 2025 list of richest immigrants in America features Rajiv Jain with a net worth of $4.7 billion among 12 Indian American billionaires.<\/strong> Born and raised in north India, Rajiv Jain is the founder, chairman and chief investment officer of GQG Partners, a Fort Lauderdale-based global investment firm managing over $150 billion in assets<\/strong>. He moved to the US in the early 1990s to pursue MBA at the University of Miami. He started his career as an equity analyst and had a progressive career spanning two decades at Vontobel Asset Management where he became co-CEO in 2014. His firm is closely tied to India, with major stakes in ITC, HDFC, RIL, ICICI Bank, SBI, Sun Pharma, Infosys, Bharti Airtel, Adani Group, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n With a net worth of $3 billion, Kavitark Ram Shriram stands sixth among the richest Indian Americans in 2025.\u00a0 Among the early investors in Google, Kavitark was born in Chennai<\/span><\/a> and graduated in mathematics at Chennai\u2019s Loyola College. Based in California, he worked for Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon<\/strong>, before making headlines for his investment worth $250,000 in Google. A board member of Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, Kavitark Ram Shriram founded Sherpalo, a venture capital firm for technology startups in 2000. He joined the league of Indian American philanthropists by donating a whopping $61 million to Stanford University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
Jay Chaudhry, Net Worth $17.9 Billion <\/strong><\/h3>\n
Vinod Khosla, Net Worth $9.2 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Rakesh Gangwal, Net Worth $6.6 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Romesh T. Wadhwani, Net Worth $5 Billion\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Rajiv Jain, Net Worth $4.7bn\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
Kavitark Ram Shriram, Net Worth $3bn<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Raj Sardana, Net Worth $2bn<\/b><\/h3>\n