Methodology
How This Data Is Built
Sources
Startups are drawn from the Startup India registry. Patents, designs and trademarks come from the Indian Patent Office, Design Registry and Trade Marks Registry public journals. Institution rankings use the NIRF 2025 overall ranking.
Refresh cadence
Data refreshes quarterly. Every rollup on this site is rebuilt from the underlying registries at each refresh — nothing here is computed live from a live request.
Matching, not ownership
Startup-to-IP links are found by matching normalised entity names (and, where available, corroborating state/address information) between the startup registry and patent/design/trademark filings. This is name-based matching, not a legal or authoritative record of ownership — hence every cross-dataset claim on this site says "matched", never "owns", and carries a High or Medium confidence label. High confidence means the match is corroborated by a shared state/address; medium means the names matched but nothing else confirmed it. Treat all matches as candidates, not certainties.
Patent data scope
Data scope: this set concentrates on patent applications filed from 2022 onward, with grants and publications from 2024 onward. 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.
Trend chart baseline
Chart starts at 2022 — earlier years reflect granted-only survivorship, not full filing volume.
Coverage gaps
Not every startup in the source registry has been classified as deep-tech yet, and not every patent has been technology-tagged. Sector pages state their coverage where it is below 70%; the "Other" sector holds patents whose technology theme has not yet been re-bucketed into one of the 14 named sectors.
What this site does not show
No funding, valuation or financial data. No contact information for startups or individuals. No identification of the patent attorney or filing agent behind any IP asset, under any circumstance.