Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
functional foods
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
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
| State | Startups mapped |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 2 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 |
| Delhi | 1 |
| Haryana | 1 |
| Jharkhand | 1 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 |
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
- BANASTHALI VIDYAPITHIN · 2
- Dr. Kimeera AmbatiIN · 2
- Dr. M. Suresh KumarIN · 2
- Dr. R. Sarada Jayalakshmi DeviIN · 2
- Dr. S. N. MeeraIN · 2
- Dr. Santhi Sree SunkaraIN · 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)1 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.