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India

Asia · Pop. 1450.9M · #4 startup ecosystem by EV

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1 Overview

8,691 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

5,856 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

1,036 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 18%

7,216Startups

3,375 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

2,332 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 25%

1,509 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 27%

1,135Breakouts

730 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 41%

405 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 42%

340Scaleups

208 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 2.4%

132 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 1.5%

135Valuation Outcomes

126 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.4%

9 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)

reach Decacorn 0.10%

Pre-Seed

3,375

Seed

2,332

Series A

1,509

Series B

730

Series C

405

Unicorn

126

Decacorn

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

2 Latest quarter

India's latest quarter in venture capital

VC raised by India-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.

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3 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in India

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in India, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in India - 2024–2026

Every $100M+ VC round into India-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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4 Startup hubs

Inside India: 8 startup hubs, 2,403 universities

Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities and research institutes by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth

1 Bengaluru $300B 6.4× 5-yr

2 Mumbai $244B 15× 5-yr

3 Delhi $230B 6.6× 5-yr

4 Pune $37.5B 14× 5-yr

5 Hyderabad $29.6B 6.5× 5-yr

6 Chennai $29.4B 6.9× 5-yr

7 Jaipur $9.8B 12× 5-yr

8 Ahmedabad $8.3B 11× 5-yr

Universities · founders produced · 2,403 tracked

1 University of Mumbai 2,354

2 Delhi University 2,048

3 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 1,726

4 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 1,599

5 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 1,344

6 Savitribai Phule Pune University 1,328

7 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1,289

8 Indian School of Business 1,187

5 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into India

VC investment into India-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

6 Founder origins

Where India's unicorn founders build

638 founders born in India are behind 323 unicorns; 61% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Asia, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.

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7 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — India in a global comparison

Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.

8 Patent intelligence

India startup IP portfolio: 26K patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in India. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families

26K

Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.

18.0 patents per million residents · #44 globally

Top patenting hubs

1 Mumbai Metropolitan Region 15.6K

2 Pune Metropolitan Region 3,377

3 Greater Delhi 2,984

4 Bengaluru Metropolitan Area 2,267

5 Hyderabad Metropolitan Region 766

6 Ahmedabad 706

9 Sector concentration

Where India punches above its weight

Sectors in which India's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means India is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.

🎓 Edtech

6.04×

7 unicorns · 18.4% of global sector

🛒 eCommerce & Marketplaces

3.37×

18 unicorns · 10.3% of global sector

🥗 Food

2.93×

5 unicorns · 8.9% of global sector

💼 Other B2B Software

1.72×

16 unicorns · 5.2% of global sector

❤️‍🩹 Health Tech & Medtech

1.39×

6 unicorns · 4.2% of global sector

💸 Fintech

1.34×

13 unicorns · 4.1% of global sector

🧠 Semiconductors

1.26×

1 unicorns · 3.8% of global sector

🤖 AI

0.92×

9 unicorns · 2.8% of global sector

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