Sector Briefing · India
Semiconductors
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
India’s semiconductor deep-tech sector is an emerging frontier with a growing base of startups and substantial patent activity, including significant foreign participation. Teams are concentrating on semiconductor packaging, analog and power device design, and display-centric technologies such as thin film transistors and driver circuits. The patent landscape is anchored by innovations in display panels, machine learning integration, and advanced packaging, reflecting a push toward both fabrication-adjacent and design-intensive capabilities.
India has 450 semiconductors startups mapped; 6,122 patent applications analysed, of which 2,227 are granted; 475 foreign filers are active in the sector.
- Startups:
- 450
- Patents:
- 6,122
- Granted:
- 2,227
- Foreign share:
- 52%
- Inventors:
- 13,696
- In opposition window:
- 386
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.
450
Startups
6,122
Patents
2,227
Granted
475
Foreign filers
13,696
Inventors
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDIN · 113
- Individual / Self-FilerIN · 71
- BAPATLA SURENDRA BABUIN · 18
- CHAIRMAN DEFENCE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION DRDOIN · 17
- IRUKUMALLI PRIYANKAIN · 14
- BHARAT ELECTRONICSIN · 13
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE41 of 55 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY27 of 31 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS22 of 26 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR11 of 12 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD12 of 18 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR10 of 16 granted
Foreign applicants - 52% of filings
- QUALCOMMUS · 589
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICSKR · 311
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUPCN · 298
- SAMSUNG DISPLAYKR · 197
- LG DISPLAYKR · 195
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICESUS · 155
Filing trend
Chart starts at 2022 - earlier years reflect granted-only survivorship, not full filing volume.
View data
| Year | Domestic | Foreign | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 135 | 475 | 0 |
| 2023 | 202 | 602 | 12 |
| 2024 | 305 | 684 | 720 |
| 2025 | 492 | 731 | 273 |
| 2026 | 578 | 309 | 316 |
Capital in this sector
Web-sourced funding across the deep-tech startups we track - a snapshot, not a time series
65
Funded startups
~$348.0M
Total raised
~$4.8M
Median raise
6 / 1
Series A / B+
Notable funded startups
- Krutrim CloudSeries B · ~$74M
- Sahasra Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd. · ~$72.3M
- Polymatech Electronics · ~$37.3M
- C2i SemiconductorsSeries A · ~$35.7M
- NetrasemiSeries A · ~$14.6M
- izmomicroSeries A · ~$13.2M
- HrdwyrSeries A · ~$13M
- Morphing MachinesSeries A · ~$11.8M
27 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
Semicon 2.0
Ministry of Electronics & IT (India Semiconductor Mission) · Approved by the Union Cabinet in July 2026
- Outlay
- ₹1,27,500 crore
- Pillars
- 6
- Chip design, building on 105 startups already designing chips
- Semiconductor machines, materials, chemicals and gases made in India
- More fabs and advanced packaging (ATMP/OSAT); research towards advanced nodes; talent
Source: PIB: Cabinet approves Semicon 2.0; ISM: Semicon 2.0.
India Semiconductor Mission (Semicon India programme)
Ministry of Electronics & IT · Approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 December 2021
- Outlay
- ₹76,000 crore
- Fiscal support of up to 50% of project cost for silicon and display fabs
- Compound semiconductor, silicon photonics and sensor (MEMS) fabs; packaging (ATMP/OSAT); chip design
Source: PIB: Cabinet approves the semiconductors and display programme.
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
Technologies in play
Patents mapped
| Label | Patents |
|---|---|
| Display Panel | 1492% |
| Display Substrate | 871% |
| Display Device | 781% |
| OLED Display | 621% |
| Array Substrate | 611% |
| Pixel Circuit | 601% |
| Thin Film Transistor | 541% |
| Semiconductor Packaging | 511% |
| Power Gating | 491% |
| Finfet | 461% |
| Machine Learning | 461% |
| OLED | 431% |
| Thermal Management | 431% |
| Encapsulation Layer | 401% |
| Gate Driving Circuit | 391% |
| SRAM | 381% |
| Clock Gating | 371% |
| Thin-Film Transistor | 351% |
| Memory Controller | 351% |
| Integrated Device Packaging | 321% |
| Non-Volatile Memory | 300% |
| Semiconductor Fabrication | 300% |
| Pixel Driving Circuit | 280% |
| Interposer | 280% |
| Reinforcement Learning | 260% |
| Pixel Array | 260% |
| Atomic Layer Deposition | 260% |
| Package Substrate | 250% |
| Shift Register | 250% |
| Semiconductor Manufacturing | 250% |
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 | 158 |
| Telangana | 53 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 44 |
| Maharashtra | 41 |
| Tamil Nadu | 39 |
| Delhi | 20 |
| Gujarat | 20 |
| Kerala | 15 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 11 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9 |
| Rajasthan | 8 |
| Haryana | 7 |
When these companies were incorporated
357 companies with a company-register match, 62 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 450
Classified into Semiconductors by their primary technology focus (shown under each name). IP chips count a company's total matched patents, designs and trademarks - across all sectors.
SILICONCH SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
Semiconductors
SiliConch Systems was established in April 2016 with a strong team to deliver next gen USB Type-C based products. SiliConch is the only Indian company to be part of the USB contributors group
Bengaluru Urban
STERADIAN SEMICONDUCTORS PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
SteradianSemi (steradiansemi.com) is a start-up developing 4D Imaging Radar Products in the milli-meter wave band for the world-wide Automotive and Industrial Market. Company is located in Bangalore City, India. We are the world leader in 4D imaging Radar technology. Steradian
Bengaluru Urban
MMRFIC Technology Pvt Ltd
Technology Hardware
MMRFIC Technology Pvt Ltd - A company with MMwave, RF, DSP, Analog IC Design Expertise focused on end to end solution delivery in areas of• Strategic and Defence Electronics • Industrial Electronics • Automotive Electronics Focused on improving the Core Talent Pool in the
Bengaluru
KRUTRIM SI DESIGNS PRIVATE LIMITED
AI
To carry on the business of designing and development of artificial intelligence applications for various industries including but not limited to engaging in research, semiconductor designing and development, cloud infrastructure development for provide unique AI solutions to lar
Bengaluru Urban
SIGNALCHIP INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
Signalchip is an exciting fabless semiconductor company established in 2010 with the vision of building an organization of highly motivated people working on cutting edge technologies creating differentiated semiconductor products. We work on extremely innovative chips to enable
Bengaluru Urban
VERVESEMI MICROELECTRONICS PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
VERVESEMI MICROELECTRONICS PRIVATE LIMITED
Gautam Buddha Nagar
Sensesemi Technologies Private Limited
IT Services
A fabless chip design company designs semiconductor chips and outsources manufacturing, enabling innovation, faster development, and cost efficiency.
Bengaluru Urban
FERMIONIC DESIGN PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
FermionIC Design is a fabless semiconductor company developing chipsets for digital and hybrid beam-forming, signal-integrity products across multiprotocol communication standards and custom die-to-die communication and Industrial IoT application. FermionIC’s innovative archite
Bengaluru Urban
Ariana Communications (OPC) Private Limited
Others
Ariana Communications (OPC) Private Limited is a start-up company founded with the mission to provide high tech smart intelligent electronic devices at low lost. It is our vision to build a cleaner, greener and connected planet with sophisticated technology derived from cutting e
Kolkata
AAGYAVISION PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
Technology Startup working on semiconductor based imaging and sensing
Bengaluru Urban
REZONENT MICROCHIPS PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
REZONENT MICROCHIPS PRIVATE LIMITED
Thrissur
ISOC SEMICONDUCTORS PRIVATE LIMITED
IT Services
ISOC is Started with an aim to develop first pass silicon High speed interface digital controller IP’s and silicon chips such as UCIE, PCIE, CXL, MIPI, Memory Digital controllers, AI Accelerators chips and others. There is huge demand and potential in the market for low power,
Chennai
DV2JS Innovation
Technology Hardware
DV2JS Innovation is a start-up founded in 2019. DV2JS Innovation, work toward research and development of indigenously made CMOS Image Sensors in India. We develop specialized ASICs for advanced ISR applications including NIR sensors and large format sensors. Their capability ext
South Delhi
CHIPSPIRIT TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Technology Hardware
Chipspirit is working on the hardware encryption solution which will enable our defense forces to have a secure data transfer with graded security. Chipspirit presented the idea with details to the Defense forces already and is the winner of DISC-1 challenge. Chipspirit is honore
Bengaluru Urban
Morphing Machines
Technology Hardware
Morphing Machines is a fabless semiconductor company building a novel processor for future workloads that will transform the chip design landscape
Bengaluru
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.
funding brief
The RDI Fund's First 22 Companies: ₹2,192 Crore Approved, ₹376 Crore Paid
The 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.