Over the past three years, Padukone has been subtly expanding her company portfolio. In 2014, she established her family office, KA Enterprises, and soon after, she started making startup investments. Among her major investments are Front Row, Mokobara, Supertails, Blu Smart, Atomberg Technologies, Epigamia, Furlenco, Nua, and so on.
Deepika Padukone, a Bollywood actress, turns 38 today. Along with being one of the top paid actors in India, Padukone is a wise investor.
Over the past three years, Padukone has been subtly expanding her company portfolio. In 2014, she established her family office, KA Enterprises, and soon after, she started making startup investments. Among her major investments are Front Row, Mokobara, Supertails, Blu Smart, Atomberg Technologies, Epigamia, Furlenco, Nua, and so on. In few instances, such as Nua and Epigamia, the actor has also served as a brand ambassador and investor.
Padukone’s entire financial portfolio, including unlisted, listed, and fixed income assets, is managed by Jigar K Shah, a former venture investor and fund manager at KA Enterprises since 2020. Like any other venture shop, we manage KA Enterprises. with checks weighing between Rs 3 crore and Rs 5 crore on average. However, the investment thesis states that it “depends on the differentiated value proposition the company is offering, effectively defended moats.” In an interview with BT in March, he said, “We also look at the team and their execution abilities [before funding].”
Here is a look at her net worth, assets and more:
The approximate net worth of Padukone is Rs 500 crore. She made a tax payment of Rs 10 crore for the 2016–2017 financial year. Notably, she was the only actress in her field to be included among India’s top individual taxpayers. She is a highly sought-after brand ambassador in India. Louis Vuitton, Levi’s, Jio, Pepsi, Adidas, Axis Bank, Tissot, Oppo, Vistara, Chopard, and Dabur are a few of the companies she is linked to.
Padukone’s assets include a four-bedroom apartment on the 26th floor of Mumbai’s Beaumonde Towers’ Tower B. She paid Rs 22 crore to purchase a second property in Alibaug with her spouse, Ranveer Singh, in 2021. She registered a serviced flat she and her father Prakash Padukone purchased in Bengaluru for Rs 6.79 crore the same year.
Padukone’s commercial ventures extend beyond her production company and family office. She established DPKA Universal Consumer Ventures Pvt. Ltd., a new business, in Mumbai in May 2021. According to Tofler, it has her and her illustrious father Prakash Padukone as Directors.
In November of last year, she launched the high-end skincare brand 82°E through her company, DPKA Universal Consumer Ventures.