Sector Briefing · India
Computing & AI
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Computing & AI stands as one of India’s largest deep-tech sectors, anchored by a massive base of startups and a high volume of patent activity with significant foreign participation. The leading technical frontier spans machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, cloud computing, and blockchain. Teams are directing these capabilities toward applied problems in cybersecurity, video coding and compression, educational technology, and advanced point cloud compression.
India has 3,073 computing & ai startups mapped; 48,204 patent applications analysed, of which 13,072 are granted; 2,059 foreign filers are active in the sector.
- Startups:
- 3,073
- Patents:
- 48,204
- Granted:
- 13,072
- Foreign share:
- 30%
- Inventors:
- 1,22,879
- In opposition window:
- 2,920
Why this page exists - and how to read it
A one-page brief of this sector: its filing trend, the problems being worked on, the technologies in play, who files most, foreign interest, and a sample of the startups we've mapped to it. Each panel is a door - most drill into a fuller view.
- Investors
- Read the trend and foreign share first - momentum plus outside interest - then scan the roster for patent-backed startups.
- Founders & operators
- The problems list is a whitespace map: crowded themes are validated demand, thin ones are open ground.
- Corporate & R&D
- Top filers and technologies show who to benchmark and where the sector is consolidating.
- Policy & TTO
- The domestic-vs-foreign filing split signals where Indian players lead - and where outside applicants dominate.
3,073
Startups
48,204
Patents
13,072
Granted
2,059
Foreign filers
1,22,879
Inventors
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICESIN · 791
- Individual / Self-FilerIN · 384
- QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDIN · 336
- BLUEST METTLE SOLUTIONSIN · 311
- JIO PLATFORMSIN · 275
- HCL TECHNOLOGIESIN · 158
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY34 of 37 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS34 of 48 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR21 of 25 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD29 of 50 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE18 of 27 granted
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PATNA22 of 37 granted
Foreign applicants - 30% of filings
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICSKR · 2,063
- GOOGLEUS · 1,701
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSINGUS · 1,670
- QUALCOMMUS · 1,042
- APPLEUS · 705
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICESUS · 503
Filing trend
Chart starts at 2022 - earlier years reflect granted-only survivorship, not full filing volume.
View data
| Year | Domestic | Foreign | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1692 | 2762 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3703 | 2881 | 30 |
| 2024 | 5022 | 3068 | 3946 |
| 2025 | 7827 | 2626 | 2212 |
| 2026 | 7875 | 924 | 2316 |
Capital in this sector
Web-sourced funding across the deep-tech startups we track - a snapshot, not a time series
278
Funded startups
~$1431.4M
Total raised
~$1.5M
Median raise
13 / 11
Series A / B+
Notable funded startups
135 raised at seed / pre-Series A. Funding is from public sources and may contain errors - verify before relying on it. 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.
Public money in this sector
Government missions and funds, as their own releases state them
IndiaAI Mission
Ministry of Electronics & IT (IndiaAI, Digital India Corporation) · Approved by the Union Cabinet on 7 March 2024
- Outlay
- ₹10,371.92 crore
- Period
- Five years
- Compute planned
- 10,000+ GPUs
- Shared AI compute, built through public-private partnership
- Indigenous large multimodal and domain foundation models (IndiaAI Innovation Centre)
- Datasets platform, application development, FutureSkills, startup financing, safe and trusted AI
A mission's own bodies and hubs, registered as not-for-profit or government companies, are not counted among the funded startups on this page. A grant or an investment a mission makes in a startup is that startup's funding.
Problems being solved
Patents mapped · click to see the filers
| Label | Patents |
|---|---|
| Video Coding | 9372% |
| Cybersecurity | 3801% |
| Educational Technology | 3111% |
| Natural Language Processing | 2210% |
| Video Coding / Intra Prediction | 1540% |
| Point Cloud Compression | 1330% |
| Network Security | 1130% |
| Deepfake Detection | 1060% |
| Fake News Detection | 860% |
| Educational AI | 840% |
| Cloud Security | 740% |
| Video Coding / Inter Prediction | 740% |
| Cloud Resource Management | 730% |
| Computer Vision | 730% |
| Sentiment Analysis | 730% |
| Hr Analytics | 700% |
| Display Technology | 670% |
| Recommendation Systems | 660% |
| Conversational AI | 620% |
| Affective Computing | 620% |
| Adaptive Learning Systems | 610% |
| Attendance Management | 580% |
| Gesture Recognition | 530% |
| Federated Learning | 490% |
| AI in Education | 490% |
| Educational Analytics | 450% |
| Image Processing | 430% |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 400% |
| Thermal Management | 370% |
| Image/Video Compression | 360% |
Technologies in play
Patents mapped
| Label | Patents |
|---|---|
| Machine Learning | 5,93012% |
| Natural Language Processing | 3,3567% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1,6493% |
| Deep Learning | 1,6433% |
| Video Coding | 1,5563% |
| Blockchain | 1,1992% |
| Cloud Computing | 1,1642% |
| Predictive Analytics | 1,0722% |
| Reinforcement Learning | 1,0022% |
| Computer Vision | 9362% |
| Anomaly Detection | 9012% |
| Edge Computing | 7852% |
| Federated Learning | 7572% |
| Sentiment Analysis | 7101% |
| Image Processing | 7001% |
| Augmented Reality | 6361% |
| Convolutional Neural Networks | 6231% |
| Neural Networks | 6161% |
| Feature Extraction | 5781% |
| Speech Recognition | 5741% |
| Smart Contracts | 5501% |
| Adaptive Learning | 5451% |
| Large Language Models | 5051% |
| Gesture Recognition | 4951% |
| Encryption | 4621% |
| IoT | 4611% |
| Virtual Reality | 4591% |
| Explainable AI | 3831% |
| Intra Prediction | 3761% |
| Facial Recognition | 3701% |
Problems and technologies are grouped from each patent's text by AI, so treat the buckets as a map of what the sector works on - not an exact count. Open a bucket to see the filings behind it.
Where startups are mapped
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 574 |
| Maharashtra | 471 |
| Tamil Nadu | 308 |
| Telangana | 266 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 244 |
| Delhi | 230 |
| Gujarat | 141 |
| Haryana | 139 |
| Kerala | 130 |
| West Bengal | 87 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 83 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 74 |
When these companies were incorporated
1,861 companies with a company-register match, 688 of them with matched IP. Open a year to see the companies founded in it.
Incorporation dates come from the MCA register, which we have matched for about 69% of the deep-tech base - so this is the shape of the cohort, not a census of it. It is also not the DPIIT recognition date, which can be years later.
Startups · 15 of 3,073
Classified into Computing & AI by their primary technology focus (shown under each name). IP chips count a company's total matched patents, designs and trademarks - across all sectors.
ETTRICK INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
Welcome to ETTRICK INNOVATIONS, where we are committed to solving complex problems through innovative technical solutions. Our approach is to simplify the most complex problems and deliver the most effective solutions to our clients. At ETTRICK INNOVATIONS, we combine the latest
Pune
SRJX RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LAB LLP
Professional & Commercial Services
A startup is a young, innovative company focused on solving problems with scalable solutions, often using technology to disrupt traditional industries and grow rapidly
Cuttack
FLOWSPHERE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
IT Services
We are a boutique training and consulting company with a vision of helping our customers to achieve business results and transform into Lean Agile Enterprise. We are gold partners with Scaled Agile Inc and partner with Scrum.orgwe are your partner in your path to agility.
Bengaluru Urban
PRIVASAPIEN TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Social Network
1) To carry on the business by using innovative privacy technology & software to enable data ecosystems to unlock value without violating user privacy.2) To research, innovate, design, develop, patent, license and deploy cutting edge technology based solutions implementable as so
Bengaluru Urban
MYELIN FOUNDRY PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
Myelin Foundry is a deep-tech pioneer building agentic AI for real-time, for edge-first deployment
Bengaluru Urban
SIMULANIS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
AR VR (Augmented + Virtual Reality)
Yet to be updated
South Delhi
VIDEONETICS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
IT Services
Researching, developing system level solution products for intelligent video processing and related applications.
Kolkata
Innoventory Solutions
IT Services
The entity ‘Innoventory Solutions’ aims to solving the present age problems of vehicular parking by building an intelligent connected car environment. With increasing number of vehicles on road and lack of proper parking spaces amid poor parking infrastructure, many people ha
Amritsar
STARKENN TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
Starkenn Technologies aim to develop affordable ADAS or active safety equipment specifically for the Four-wheeler Passenger and Commercial vehicles segment which is compatible according to the Indian road conditions and comes with a small set-up which consumes less power and is c
Pune
RAPTORXAI PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
RaptorX drives innovation, improvement, and scalability through its advanced AI technology, which evolves continuously to detect emerging fraud patterns and adapt to new threats, fostering innovation in fraud prevention techniques. Its data-driven approach enables continuous impr
Medak
GNANI INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
gnani.ai is an AI company focused on enterprise automation using speech recognition and NLP. Innovation : Our product is based on cutting edge AI technology focused on speech recognition and NLP. We are creating Intellectual Property that will be extremely valuable.Gnani.ai
Bengaluru Rural
Innoventory Solutions
IT Services
The entity ‘Innoventory Solutions’ aims to solving the present age problems of vehicular parking by building an intelligent connected car environment. With increasing number of vehicles on road and lack of proper parking spaces amid poor parking infrastructure, many people ha
Amritsar
GREPPIPE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
IT Services
At our company, we turn the digital dreams of our clients into a reality. We work closely with our users throughout development to ensure that we are still aligned with the end goal. We are committed to producing exceptional software for each of our clients.Once we have finished
Hyderabad
Polystack Technologies Private Limited
IT Services
Visakhapatnam
PRITWISH INNOVATIONS LLP
Marketing
The limited liability partnership shall be that of to provide Digital Learning Solutions to institutions and industries. Offer innovative products and services tailored across all platforms catering to learning & development & HRMS. Using all kinds of technology, including AR, V
Mumbai
Deep-tech basis: site-backed (own website fetched and read), IP-backed (patent or design filed in its own name), web-backed (described elsewhere on the open web), registry only (registry description alone). How this is decided
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Briefings on this sector
funding brief
Space 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.
funding brief
Missions 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.
funding brief
The 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.
tech brief
Indian Deeptech Reaches Series B at 7%. Its Space Companies Do It at 19%.
A reader asked whether our Series B figure was a real graduation rate. It was not, so we recomputed it. The deeptech-versus-everything-else gap did not survive the recount. The gap inside deeptech did, and it runs from zero to nineteen percent.