{
  "id": 12288659,
  "title": "Founder Salaries Tracker FY26: How Much Did India’s Startup Founders Earn?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/founder-salaries-tracker-fy26-how-much-did-indias-startup-founders",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-06T02:30:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc42",
    "slug": "inc42",
    "url": "https://inc42.com/features/founder-salaries-tracker-fy26-how-much-did-indias-startup-founders-earn/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In FY26, 16 founders across 10 Indian tech startups collectively earned a combined ₹43.4 Cr in fixed remuneration, marking an 8.2% increase from ₹40.2 Cr in FY25. Their average fixed remuneration per founder rose to ₹2.7 Cr from ₹2.5 Cr. Of these founders, 12 saw increases in their fixed pay, while three experienced reductions, and one maintained unchanged remuneration.\n\nGhazal Alagh from Honasa Consumer topped the list with the highest percentage increase of 60%, with her fixed remuneration growing from ₹1.5 Cr to ₹2.4 Cr. Sahil Barua from Delhivery followed with a 21.4% increase, taking her fixed pay from ₹2.8 Cr to ₹3.4 Cr. Falguni Nayar of Nykaa experienced the steepest decline, with her fixed remuneration decreasing from ₹86 Lakh to ₹74 Lakh, a 14% drop.\n\nPeyush Bansal from Swiggy saw the largest fixed pay reduction, declining 12.5% from ₹1.6 Cr to ₹1.4 Cr. Lenskart cofounder Peyush Bansal recorded the highest fixed remuneration among the tracked founders at ₹5.7 Cr in FY26, despite a 1.7% decline from ₹5.8 Cr in FY25. Meesho cofounders Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Kumar each earned ₹4.8 Cr in fixed remuneration, an increase of 6.7% from the previous year. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Paytm, received ₹4 Cr in fixed pay, unchanged from FY25, but also received ₹33 Lakh in perquisites.",
  "summary": "Sixteen founders across 10 new-age tech companies earned a combined ₹43.4 Cr in fixed remuneration in FY26, up 8.2% from…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}