It's official. Indian immigrants do make US richer
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Richest Indian immigrants in US
Jay Chaudhry – $17.9B – Security software Vinod Khosla – $9.2B – Sun Microsystems, venture capita Rakesh Gangwal – $6.6B – Airline Romesh T. Wadhwani – $5.0B – Software Rajiv Jain – $4.8B – Finance Kavitark Ram Shriram – $3.0B – Google, venture capital Raj Sardana – $2.0B – Technology services David Paul – $1.5B – Medical devices Nikesh Arora – $1.4B – Cybersecurity, SoftBank, Google Sundar Pichai – $1.1B – Alphabet Satya Nadella – $1.1B – Microsoft Neerja Sethi – $1.0B – IT consulting
US' top 3 richest immigrants
Indians are making the US richer, it's official. According to Forbes' 2025 list of America's Richest Immigrants, India has contributed the highest number of immigrant billionaires (12) this year, overtaking Israel as the leading birthplace of billionaire immigrants.The 125 billionaire immigrants identified by Forbes hail from 43 countries. But nearly two-thirds of them were born in India, Israel, Taiwan, Canada, China and five other nations.Newcomers from India include 53-year-old Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai , 57-year-old Microsoft chief Satya Nadella and 57-year-old Nikesh Arora, who has run cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since 2018.But the one name that stands out is 65-year-old cybersecurity mogul Jay Chaudhry who had never been on a plane before when he flew from his native India to attend grad school at the University of Cincinnati in 1980. With a net worth of $17.9 billion, Chaudhry is the CEO of Zscaler, a cybersecurity firm he founded in 2008. It went public in March 2018.He and his family own around 40% of the Nasdaq-listed firm. Before Zscaler, Chaudhry founded four other tech companies that were all acquired: SecureIT, CoreHarbor, CipherTrust and AirDefense. In 1996, Chaudhry and his wife, Jyoti, both quit their jobs and used their life savings to start cybersecurity firm SecureIT, his first startup. His hometown, a village in the Himalayas in India, did not have electricity or running water until he was in the 8th and 10th grade, respectively. Chaudhry moved to the U.S. in 1980 to attend graduate school and now lives in Nevada, after relocating from the Bay Area.List of all Indians on the Forbes list:The United States' richest immigrant is Elon Musk who was born in South Africa and came to the U.S. via Canada as a college student, and is now worth an estimated $393.1 billion. Google cofounder Sergey Brin, 51, is the second richest immigrant, with an estimated $139.7 billion fortune. Brin's family moved to the U.S. from Russia when he was 6-years-old to escape the anti-Semitism they faced in their home country.America's third-richest immigrant, Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang, 62, was born in Taiwan and moved to Thailand as a child with his family. When Huang was nine-years-old, his parents sent him and his older brother to the U.S. to escape widespread social unrest in Thailand. Huang, who is worth an estimated $137.9 billion, is one of 11 billionaire immigrants from Taiwan, up from 4 in 2022. That's enough to tie Taiwan with Israel as the nations with the second most billionaire immigrants on Forbes' 2025 list, and to give Taiwan bragging rights as the country with the biggest jump since we last looked at billionaire immigrants.While more than a quarter of America's three-comma-club inherited their money, 93% of immigrant billionaires are self-made. Nearly two-thirds of them got rich in either the tech sector (where 53 immigrants became billionaires) or in finance (28), said Forbes.Forbes defined immigrant billionaires as foreign-born American citizens currently living in the United States with an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion as of July 7, 2025.
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