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Where Deep-Tech Clusters in India

Data as of 13 Oct 2026Methodology

Two lenses on the same country. Where patents are filed - mapped from the filing address across every domestic filer, filterable by technology and split so heavy-filing colleges don’t drown the corporate signal - and where India's startups we track are based.

Why this page exists - and how to read it

Innovation and commercialisation happen in different places. The filing map shows where patents are actually produced - every domestic filer, located from the address on the record - while the startup map shows where ventures incorporate. Reading the two together tells you where capability exists, and where it has (or hasn't yet) turned into companies.

Investors
Look for dense-but-quiet states: heavy filing with few mapped startups often means capability that hasn't been commercialised yet.
Founders & operators
The company-only city list is a proxy for experienced R&D talent - use it to decide where to hire or set up.
Corporate & R&D
Filter the map by your technology to see which states drive its filings - and whether companies or colleges are behind them.
Policy & TTO
The Institutes toggle separates academic output from corporate output, state by state and city by city.

💬 Switch the filer-kind toggle before reading the map - several states look completely different once colleges are split out.

Where patents are filed - by technology

Domestic filers mapped by the address on the patent record

Pick a technology, then use the toggle to separate companies from university/college institutes (which file heavily) and individual inventors. Tap any state on the map to drill into the cities driving it - a read on where the talent sits.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands - 17 filings (tap to drill)Andhra Pradesh - 16,019 filings (tap to drill)Arunachal Pradesh - 76 filings (tap to drill)Assam - 996 filings (tap to drill)Bihar - 1,287 filings (tap to drill)Chandigarh - 3,028 filings (tap to drill)Chhattisgarh - 1,347 filings (tap to drill)Dadra and Nagar Haveli - 0 filingsDaman and Diu - 0 filingsDelhi - 24,631 filings (tap to drill)Goa - 240 filings (tap to drill)Gujarat - 8,530 filings (tap to drill)Haryana - 5,054 filings (tap to drill)Himachal Pradesh - 1,555 filings (tap to drill)Jammu and Kashmir - 631 filings (tap to drill)Jharkhand - 1,764 filings (tap to drill)Karnataka - 26,035 filings (tap to drill)Kerala - 3,156 filings (tap to drill)Lakshadweep - 0 filingsMadhya Pradesh - 3,969 filings (tap to drill)Maharashtra - 28,128 filings (tap to drill)Manipur - 87 filings (tap to drill)Meghalaya - 120 filings (tap to drill)Mizoram - 51 filings (tap to drill)Nagaland - 151 filings (tap to drill)Odisha - 3,040 filings (tap to drill)Puducherry - 655 filings (tap to drill)Punjab - 10,713 filings (tap to drill)Rajasthan - 6,310 filings (tap to drill)Sikkim - 32 filings (tap to drill)Tamil Nadu - 54,731 filings (tap to drill)Telangana - 16,450 filings (tap to drill)Tripura - 113 filings (tap to drill)Uttar Pradesh - 16,270 filings (tap to drill)Uttarakhand - 6,385 filings (tap to drill)West Bengal - 4,824 filings (tap to drill)

Leading states

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17 - 54,731 filings per state

2,46,395 domestic filings mapped. Tap a state to see its cities.

Where the talent is - top cities

  1. 1Chennai · Tamil Nadu27,636
  2. 2Delhi · Delhi23,357
  3. 3Bengaluru · Karnataka19,954
  4. 4Hyderabad · Telangana10,245
  5. 5Pune · Maharashtra9,721
  6. 6Mumbai · Maharashtra9,313
  7. 7Coimbatore · Tamil Nadu8,954
  8. 8Noida · Uttar Pradesh8,201
  9. 9Chandigarh · Chandigarh8,156
  10. 10Jaipur · Rajasthan5,375
  11. 11Vellore · Tamil Nadu3,278
  12. 12Ahmedabad · Gujarat3,195

Cities are read from the filing address; about 56% of domestic filings name a recognisable city, so city counts are a lower bound on each state’s total.

Location is derived from the filing address (~90% of domestic filings resolve to a state, ~56% to a named city) and is approximate; counts are distinct applications with a domestic filer. Methodology.

Startups by geography

The whole startup registry we track, by state and by city. For the deep-tech subset - its state map and the tier-2 cities rising beyond the metros - see the deep-tech startup map.

All startups by state

Every startup we track - tap a state to open it in the explorer

Leading states

  1. 1Maharashtra75,338
  2. 2Uttar Pradesh46,378
  3. 3Delhi44,588
  4. 4Karnataka42,924
  5. 5Gujarat35,329
  6. 6Tamil Nadu30,458
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15 - 75,338 startups per state

340 startups in locations not shown on the map (union territories or unrecognised state labels).

Leading cities - most registrations

By city across the whole registry, metros included. For the deep-tech tier-2 cities, see the deep-tech startup map.

  1. 1.Delhi NCR · Delhi74,925
  2. 2.Bengaluru · Karnataka35,119
  3. 3.Mumbai · Maharashtra32,718
  4. 4.Hyderabad · Telangana21,121
  5. 5.Pune · Maharashtra20,118
  6. 6.Chennai · Tamil Nadu15,920
  7. 7.Ahmedabad · Gujarat15,260
  8. 8.Kolkata · West Bengal11,482
  9. 9.Jaipur · Rajasthan8,593
  10. 10.Lucknow · Uttar Pradesh7,736
  11. 11.Surat · Gujarat5,261
  12. 12.Indore · Madhya Pradesh5,195

Family offices by geography

261 family offices that invest in startups. 11 of them back a company we call deep tech, and 41 more may, by a brand-name match we have not confirmed. Members can search them by sector, stage and the companies they back.

Family offices by state

By headquarters - tap a state to search its family offices (members)

Leading states

  1. 1Maharashtra66
  2. 2Delhi46
  3. 3Karnataka27
  4. 4Gujarat9
  5. 5Tamil Nadu6
  6. 6Telangana5
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1 - 66 family offices per state

Cities

  1. 1.Mumbai · Maharashtra62
  2. 2.Delhi NCR · Delhi46
  3. 3.Bengaluru · Karnataka26
  4. 4.Ahmedabad · Gujarat9
  5. 5.Chennai · Tamil Nadu6
  6. 6.Hyderabad · Telangana5
  7. 7.Kolkata · West Bengal5
  8. 8.Pune · Maharashtra3

Outside India

70 family offices based abroad also back Indian startups, led by Singapore (10), New York (9), Dubai (6).

20 have no headquarters on record.

Search family offices →

Delhi NCR offices are placed in Delhi. Backing deep tech means a company it is known for is one we call deep tech, matched by registered name or a funding round. A match on a trading brand alone is counted apart, as possible. Family offices are listed from Inc42's Family Office Tracker (April 2026) and from funding rounds and news reports, each with the source it came from.