AI Boom: Top 10 Richest Emerging Tech Billionaires in 2025

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The rapidly developing AI industry has brought forth tremendous opportunities to tech moguls. Not only do they score big times within the technology and innovation industries, but they also continue to write history in the business realm. This group of tech billionaires amasses a collective US$3.2 trillion, and they’re getting wealthier each day. 

10 Richest Emerging Tech Billionaires in 2025 

For many, the image of a tech mogul is almost synonymous with trailblazers like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. But, beyond the already evolving AI bubble, these new names and their staggering net worth successfully joined Forbes’ wealthiest list in 2025. 

1. Michael Intrator - US$3.1 Billion

After remarkable years of experience in the industry, Michael Intrator eventually made it to the list of tech billionaires in 2025. With an impressive fortune of US$3.1 billion, the CoreWeave CEO leads the pack of his cloud computing company on a successful route. Notably, the growing firm is now entrusted to oversee tech enterprises across different levels, from small startups to large firms like Microsoft and OpenAI. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States 

2. Alexandr Wang - US$2 Billion 

As the youngest self-made tech billionaire in the world, Alexandr Wang stands as an outstanding testament of enduring perseverance. At age 28, he has made history with Scale AI, a data labeling startup aiming to assist other AI companies such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI. 

Wang’s endeavors in the tech industry don’t come easy, given the tumultuous path he has taken, including being an MIT dropout at the age of 19 to transfer into the Y Combinator accelerator. Thankfully, his 14% stake in Scale evidently paid off all the sacrifices. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States 

3. Brian Venturo - US$2 Billion

Brian Venturo is a part of the co-founders of CoreWeave, a growing cloud computing company. Having been linked with huge clients including Microsoft and OpenAI, CoreWeave is now attributed to staggering stock value. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States 

4. Joe Lonsdale - US$2 Billion 

Former PayPal intern Joe Lonsdale joined the tech billionaires list in 2025 after the data mining firm he co-founded secured a surging stock value of 225%. The Stanford graduates show no sign of slowing down, with ambitious ventures spanning from co-founding OpenGov to placing various enormous bets on startups. After all, Lonsdale learned brilliant strategic insights from a business mogul himself, Peter Thiel, aka the first person he has worked for. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States

5. Phil Shawe - US$1.8 Billion 

Phil Sawe exemplifies that a humble translation service can evolve into a billion-dollar powerhouse with the right resources. Despite facing plenty of hurdles along the way, TransPerfect soared to a staggering US$1.3 billion in revenue, thanks in part to high-profile clients like Microsoft and various U.S. government agencies. Aside from his growing ventures in the tech industry, Shawe is planning to reform the Delaware Court of Chancery where he has funded campaign ads and written op-eds, Forbes reported. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States

6. Yao Runhao - US$1.3 Billion 

Chances are, you have heard about the popular AI dating simulation game Love and Deepspace, given the six million monthly user count. The Chinese tech billionaire, Yao Runhao, is the mastermind behind this mobile game. As an avid gamer since childhood, Runhao allows players of Love and Deepspace to build a virtual romance with five AI-powered characters. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: China

7. Dario Amodei - US$1.2 Billion 

The new tech billionaire, Dario Amodie, once served as the vice president of research at OpenAI and left a legacy of reinforcement learning from human feedback. After years of valuable experiences, Amodie, along with his sister Daniela and another five tech practitioners, co-founded Anthropic, a large-scale artificial intelligence system that competes with OpenAI. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States

8. Luis Von Ahn - US$1.1 Billion 

Luis Von Ahn birthed the popular green bird language-learning app, Duolingo, in 2011, with the right resources he had under his belt as a PhD in computer science. Von Ahn, who grew up in Guatemala City, was also credited for the CAPTCHA verification system, which he sold to Google back in 2009. Today, Duolingo has garnered more than 100 million users who utilize its language, math, and music lessons every month. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States

9. Sundar Pichai - US$1.1 Billion 

Looking at his background as the CEO of Google's parent Alphabet, it comes off as unsurprising that Sundar Pichai is among the tech billionaires. Twenty-one years of loyalty under the same company, Google, has brought Pichai to an ownership of 0.02% stock. More to that, the 30% soaring shares of the company played a pivotal role in Pichai’s transformation as one of the newest tech billionaires. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: United States

10. Liang Wenfeng - US$1 Billion 

The creator and sole investor of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, tells a successful story of perseverance. Upon the system’s R1 series initial release in January this year, the artificial intelligence firm has rivaled the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. DeepSeek R1 is currently available for anyone to access, use, modify and share without a restriction of proprietary licenses. 

Sources of Wealth: Self-Made 

Citizenship: China

These ten emerging tech billionaires in 2025 are not only reaping the rewards of cutting-edge innovation but are also actively shaping the future of AI, cloud computing, data science, and digital engagement. Their stories reflect a broader shift in global wealth creation. Still, on the topic of wealthy individuals, check also the top ten richest men in 2025 so far here. 

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