Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
Functional Foods
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▲ Rising
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
100
Patents
2
Startups matched
0
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on functional foods
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
IMMUNZA FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED
Bengaluru · Agri & Food
INFINI AGROTEK LLP
Bengaluru Urban · Agri & Food
A sample of matched deep-tech startups - Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
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
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 2 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 |
| Delhi | 1 |
| Haryana | 1 |
| Jharkhand | 1 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 |
See functional foods on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | 0 |
| 2023 | 20 | 0 |
| 2024 | 31 | 0 |
| 2025 | 32 | 0 |
| 2026partial | 9 | 0 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
- DR KIMEERA AMBATIIN · 2
- DR R SARADA JAYALAKSHMI DEVIIN · 2
- DR S N MEERAIN · 2
- DR SANTHI SREE SUNKARAIN · 2
- DR SURESH KUMARIN · 2
- DR T S S K PATROIN · 2
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF HARYANA1 of 1 granted
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT NIFTEM K1 of 1 granted
- AMITY UNIVERSITY HARYANA0 of 1 granted
- ANJUMAN I ISLAM S KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS SCHOOL OF PHARMACY0 of 1 granted
- ASSAM DOWN TOWN UNIVERSITY0 of 1 granted
- ATUL BHATTAD0 of 1 granted
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.