The top 50 billionaire inventors

Dilip Shanghvi – Estimated Net Worth Today: $15.6B.

In 1983, Dilip Shanghvi, the son of a pharmaceuticals distributor,  borrowed $200 from his father to start Sun Pharmaceutical Industries in 1983 with the objective of producing psychiatric drugs.

The company become India’s most valuable publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. The company generates annual revenue of $4.5 billion, out of which two-thirds is derived from overseas markets.

Also, Shanghvi is active as a personal investor, with interests that increasingly extended beyond pharmaceuticals, notably in the field of renewable energy.