Radha Vembu: The Zoho co-founder who is India's second richest self made woman billionaire

As of July 2022, her net worth is 26, 260 crore. Radha has secured fifth spot in the list of 'Leading Wealthy Women 2021’ report released by Kotak Private Banking and Hurun India. According to the Hurun list, Radha Vembu is top in India, and second across the world, in the list of Biggest Risers. Vembu, who keeps away herself from the limelight began her career with Zoho Corp-originally known as AdventInc-founded by her older brother Sridhar Vembu. In 2009 AdventInc merged with Zoho Corporations and since then their business grew.

Radha Vembu is the co-founder and product manager of Zoho Corporation, an Indian software development company. She has been named as the second richest self-made woman billionaire in India and 25th in World, according to the list of Hurun Richest Self-Made Women in the World 2022.

As of July 2022, her net worth is 26, 260 crore. Radha has secured fifth spot in the list of 'Leading Wealthy Women 2021’ report released by Kotak Private Banking and Hurun India.

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According to the Hurun list, Radha Vembu is top in India, and second across the world, in the list of Biggest Risers.

Vembu, who keeps away herself from the limelight began her career with Zoho Corp-originally known as AdventInc-founded by her older brother Sridhar Vembu. In 2009 AdventInc merged with Zoho Corporations and since then their business grew.

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Vembu  is a product manager for email service Zoho Mail, and also the director of Corpus Foundation. She is also the owner of a majority stake in Zoho Corporation.

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Under Vembu's leadership, Zoho was able to become one of the top five business email providers in the world, competing globally with Microsoft and Google.

Zoho Corporation has presence in seven locations with its global headquarters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and corporate headquarters outside of Austin in Del Valle, Texas.

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In 2020 Zoho launched a remote work tool kit called Zoho Remotely to help businesses to switch to work-from-home. As of 2022, the company announced it has more than 80 million users.

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According to Forbes, Zoho is beta-testing a new WhatsApp alternative called 'arattai' which means chat in the Tamil language.

49 years old Radha Vembu who keeps herself a low key, is a graduate in Bachelor of Arts/Economics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). Radha is married and lives in Chennai. She is blessed with one child.
 

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