Net worth
$28.3B
Forbes Real-Time · as of Sep 24, 2026
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Recent SEC filings
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Footprint
Companies
Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd.Founder
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- Role
- Founder (1966) and chairman; privately held under the Cyrus Poonawalla Group; son Adar Poonawalla is CEO
Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd.POONAWALLA · NSE · Promoter group holds majority control… · 59.02% · as of Jun 2026
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- Ticker
- POONAWALLA
- Exchange
- NSE
- Role
- Promoter group holds majority control through Rising Sun Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
- Stake
- 59.02% (promoter group)
- Stake as of
- 2026-06
Bilthoven Biologicals B.V. (Netherlands)Subsidiary of Serum Institute…
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- Role
- Subsidiary of Serum Institute, acquired 2012
Stakes
The Ritz-Carlton Pune (hotel)stake held (size not disclosed)
source ↗Dharma Productions (Karan Johar's film studio), bought by Adar Poonawalla50% · as of 2024
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Rising Sun Holdings Pvt. Ltd.holding co
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- Type
- holding co
- Notes
- Promoter vehicle through which the Poonawalla group controls Poonawalla Fincorp.
Cyrus Poonawalla Groupholding co
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- Type
- holding co
- Notes
- Umbrella group and parent of Serum Institute of India.
Private deals
Adar Poonawalla (Serum Institute CEO) bought a 50% stake in Dharma Productions for about Rs 1,000 crore.2024
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Mumbai (Breach Candy), India: Lincoln House, the former US consulate buildingheritage mansion · Rs 750 crore (~$113M) · Sep 2015
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Transfer of Lincoln House, bought in 2015, has been held up for years by ownership disputes involving the US and…
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- In full
- Transfer of Lincoln House, bought in 2015, has been held up for years by ownership disputes involving the US and Indian governments and Maharashtra authorities; in 2023 Poonawalla publicly criticized the government decision blocking it (as of 2023).
Serum Institute makes Covishield (the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine), Covovax (Novavax) and the WHO-recommended…
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- In full
- Serum Institute makes Covishield (the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine), Covovax (Novavax) and the WHO-recommended R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine; it supplies vaccines to more than 140 countries, largely through international procurement programs.
Giving
Villoo Poonawalla Foundation (founded 2011; education, healthcare, water and sanitation; runs a hospital in Pune)
source ↗University of Oxford: a vaccines research building is being named after him
source ↗Research gaps: The session ran out of web searches, so research used direct page fetches only. Not verified: Serum Institute's recent (FY24-26) revenue, any Covishield side-effect litigation, and the exact Poonawalla family stake in Serum (private). The Mayfair, London mansion bought by son Adar in 2023 (GBP 138M) was left out because the brief excludes family members' homes. The Poonawalla Fincorp promoter stake comes from Screener.in, not the NSE filing itself. Poonawalla Stud Farms (horse breeding) could not be confirmed from a fetched source and was left out.