India, Dec. 17 -- Indian-born entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal has entered the billionaire's list by building two billion-dollar companies, including Harness. The AI-based software delivery platform reportedly raised $240 million at a huge valuation.

Bansal, who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, grew up in a small town in Rajasthan. He recalled that a visit to an IIT campus by Bill Gates and the success of alum Sabeer Bhatia, cofounder of Hotmail, inspired him to start his entrepreneurial journey. "That's what brought me to Silicon Valley,"

With a few hundred dollars, Bansal relocated to California at the age of 21. There, he spent seven years working as an engineer for tech companies that sponsored his H-1B visa, ...