IP Intelligence

India's Deep-Tech Patent Landscape

Who is filing across India's deep-tech — domestic companies, research institutes and the foreign applicants entering the market — plus the cross-sector filing trends beneath them.

Why this page exists — and how to read it

Patents are the most honest record of who is investing in a technology — filings cost money and intent. This page is the national dashboard of that record: who files (companies, institutes, foreign entrants), what gets granted, and how each sector is trending.

Investors: Foreign-filer share marks the sectors outsiders already believe in; grants vs filings separates real IP from paper.
Founders & operators: Before committing a roadmap, check who files around your space — incumbents, institutes or foreign entrants moving in.
Corporate & R&D: Use the filer drill-downs to rank companies by portfolio and grant rate, then open any filer's full profile.
Policy & TTO: The domestic-vs-foreign and company-vs-institute splits show where Indian IP is actually produced — and by whom.

4,54,141

Patents analysed

1,03,486

Granted

26,890

Foreign filers

6,96,995

Domestic inventors

31,106

Deep-tech startups

5,622

Deep-tech startups with patents

4,753

Research institutes filing

Data scope: this set concentrates on patent applications filed from 2022 onward (about 85% of records), with grants and publications from 2024 onward. It also carries a smaller tail of older records — almost entirely granted patents reaching back over a decade — so pre-2022 years show granted survivors, not full filing volume. The newest filings are still in examination, so grant counts on recent years read low by design — a coverage-window timing effect, not weak inventive output.

Who's filing

Foreign entry is one lens; the full picture leads with the domestic and institutional base.

Domestic & foreign companiesNon-educational filers ranked by portfolio, grant rate and lapsed share — domestic-first, with a foreign toggle.Open →Research institutesEducational institutes ranked by portfolio and grant rate — the academic filing base, kept separate from companies.Open →Browse by technology & valueFilter ~360k filings by year, status, technology and value-added category to find the companies behind them.Open →

Filing trend, all sectors

Chart starts at 2022 — earlier years reflect granted-only survivorship, not full filing volume.

This trend maps patents onto deep-tech sectors to trace where the field is heading — read it as a directional proxy, not a representative count of all Indian filings. Sector mapping is approximate and recent years skew toward foreign applicants, so weigh the shape of the curve over the absolute numbers.

Foreign entry by sector

One lens: higher share = stronger international filing interest. Open a sector for its domestic/institute/foreign split.

Capital by sector

Web-sourced funding raised by the deep-tech startups we track — ~$13053.7M across 3,345 funded companies. A snapshot, approximate.

Company details, funding, stage, investors and brand names here are AI-matched to public web sources — not human-verified. Coverage is incomplete and some records may be matched to the wrong company. Treat as a directional starting point, verify before relying on any figure, and note the platform takes no responsibility for errors.

Go deeper

The strategy behind the numbers — how founders turn filings into a defensible IP position.

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·Secure patient capital
·Survive the R&D valleys of death (TRL 4–6)

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