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Health & Life Sciences27% foreign-filed5,771 startups · 1,07,616 patents
- Drug delivery systems▲ rising
- Assistive technology for visually impaired▲ rising
- Pharmaceutical synthesis▼ cooling
- Video coding• steady
- Sidelink positioning▲ rising
- Sidelink resource allocation▼ cooling
- Vehicle safety systems▲ rising
- Structural health monitoring▲ rising
- Display technology▲ rising
- Cybersecurity▲ rising
- Educational technology▲ rising
- Network security▲ rising
- Battery thermal management• steady
- Battery materials▲ rising
- Battery safety▲ rising
- Precision agriculture▲ rising
- Smart irrigation▲ rising
- Crop protection▲ rising
- Sustainable construction materials▲ rising
- Advanced high-strength steel▼ cooling
- Natural fiber composites▲ rising
- Textile machinery▼ cooling
- Construction automation▲ rising
- Predictive maintenance▲ rising
- Smart waste management▲ rising
- Water quality monitoring▲ rising
- Water purification▲ rising
- Fraud detection▲ rising
- Stock market prediction▲ rising
- Kitchen appliances▲ rising
- Network intrusion detection▲ rising
- Personal safety wearable▲ rising
- Biometric authentication• steady
- Semiconductor packaging▲ rising
- Power semiconductor devices▲ rising
- Led packaging▲ rising
- Rocket propulsion▼ cooling
- Space debris removal▼ cooling
- Hybrid rocket propulsion• steady
- Quantum random number generation▲ rising
- Quantum error correction• steady
- Quantum sensing• steady
What's moving
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Rising technologyPrecision agriculture798 patents with filings rising, and 111 startups matched to them.Open technology →Recently fundedGreenwave Engineering, Brahma.ai, Space PhilicAmong the latest rounds on record, September 2026.Funding is from public sources and may contain errors - verify before relying on it.See funding →Foreign interestCommunications62% of its 56,841 patents are foreign-filed, the highest of any sector.Open sector →Beyond the metrosCoimbatore487 deep-tech startups, 131 with matched IP: the leading hub outside the metros.Open the map →
Latest reports
All reports →funding briefSpace Took a Quarter of the RDI Fund's First Approvals. AI Took ₹3 Crore.We set TDB's first 22 RDI approvals against where India's deep-tech companies and patent filings are. Space took a quarter of the money from 2% of the companies on our list. AI took 0.1%. Karnataka sent nearly a third of the proposals; Gujarat sent four.11 Oct 2026funding briefMissions Outspend Investors 115 to 1 in Chips. In Space, Investors Lead 7 to 1.We set ten government missions and funds against the private rounds on our record in the same sectors. In chips, quantum, critical minerals and green hydrogen, the state has committed more than every private round the sector's startups have on our record. In space, robotics, defence, health and mobility, investors have put in more. AI is close to level.06 Oct 2026funding briefThe RDI Fund Pays Half. How Many Indian Deeptech Companies Can Raise the Other Half?The ₹1 lakh crore RDI Fund will finance no more than half of a project; the company must find the rest. The first 22 approvals needed a median ₹101 crore each from their own or private sources. In the past year, 47 deep-tech companies on our list closed a private round of ₹100 crore or more.06 Oct 2026funding briefThe RDI Fund's First 22 Companies: ₹2,192 Crore Approved, ₹376 Crore PaidThe Technology Development Board, the first manager to lend from India's ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund, has approved 22 companies for ₹2,192 crore against projects worth ₹4,744 crore. By 30 September it had paid ten of them ₹375.69 crore. Here is the full list, what each is building, and what our data says about them.04 Oct 2026
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