Founder Profile
T. V. Sundram Iyengar
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is T. V. Sundram Iyengar?
T. V. Sundram Iyengar is a founder of TVS Motor Company, which was founded in 1978 with Venu Srinivasan.
- Company founded
- TVS Motor Company
- Founded
- 1978
- Co-founders
- Venu Srinivasan
Background
Trained in law, he left legal practice for business and built his early reputation on punctual bus services and vehicle distribution in South India.
Founding Story
T. V. Sundram Iyengar (1877-1955) was a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu who founded T.V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons in Madurai in 1911. He started with rural bus services and motor dealerships, building the transport and automotive business that grew into the TVS Group, the parent lineage of TVS Motor Company.
Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar was born on March 22, 1877 and died on April 28, 1955. He founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar and Sons in 1911 as a bus company, which later moved into automobiles and became the parent of the TVS Group. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).