Who is Kaivalya Vohra, India’s youngest entrepreneur with Rs 1,000 crore wealth?

New Delhi: The 19-year-old Kaivalya Vohra made it to the headlines as he emerged in the recently released list of richest Indians by the research firm Hurun India, in partnership with the wealth management firm IIFL Wealth.

Vohra is CTO and co-founder of Mumbai-based grocery delivery start-up Zepto. He founded the company along with 20-year-old Aadit Palicha in the year 2020.

This is the first time an individual below 20 years of age has been included in the list. Further, Vohra and Palicha are the youngest start-up founders to make it to the Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2022 list.

Who is Kaivalya Vohra? 

Kaivalya Vohra and Adit Palicha started Zepto two years back and became the youngest start-up founders in the country. Childhood friends and Stanford dropouts came up with the idea of starting an online grocery delivery service when they were unable to fetch basic groceries in their area during the lockdown induced due to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the lockdown, they felt that the country needed a quick doorstep delivery platform for their essential needs. Its name is derived from the Zeptosecond, a unit of the standard that measures time.

Net Worth

To date, the net worth of Zepto is close to $ 900 million crores, while Vohra’s net worth is close to Rs 1,000 crores.

At present, Zepto is operating in 10 major cities in India and upto 1,000 employees work in the company that sells nearly 3,000 products on the platform.