Why India's Wealth is Shifting into Startups

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0:00According to the 2025 Hurun Global Rich List, India is home to 284 billionaires,

0:06up from 271 a year earlier, ranking third globally behind the US and China.

0:12Within that growing pool of wealth, India is on a cusp of an unprecedented

0:17intergenerational wealth transfer of $1.5 trillion. Historically,

0:22Indian families used to hold their wealth in gold or land assets, and now this money

0:28is actually coming out and being invested back into the economy through a lot of these startups.

0:32But India's startup capital isn't coming only from inheritance.

0:36India opened its economy in 1991,

0:39rolling back decades of state controls and protectionist policies.

0:43The reforms helped trigger a wave of private enterprise, and over time,

0:47the rise of a large cohort of self-made Indian billionaires.

0:51Indian social fabric changed in the last two, two and a half decades is where that

0:55generation became much more confident with access to information. Now they have built enough capital

1:01for themselves to not look at new ideation but to look at new ideas, where they can support.

1:07India's startup boom was once driven largely by foreign capital. Today,

1:11more of that money is coming from within.

1:14If we create more domestic capital that is invested,

1:18it means you're relying less on foreign capital, which means you can invest

1:23for longer periods and take more risk as a company because your cost of capital is lower.

1:28The question is whether this capital can build resilient businesses, deeper markets,

1:33and long-term growth, or will it just fuel the next cycle of risk?

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