Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
Pharmaceutical Formulation
Data as of 12 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: - Steady
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
278
Patents
10
Startups matched
58
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on pharmaceutical formulation
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
Cellix Bio Private Limited
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
Ahammune Biosciences Pvt Ltd
Pune · Health & Life Sciences
AIC Life Sciences
Surat · Health & Life Sciences
AMATERASU LIFESCIENCES LLP
Mumbai · Health & Life Sciences
Axxelent Pharma Science Private Limited
Chennai · Health & Life Sciences
AYUR BIOPHARMA PRIVATE LIMITED
Pune · Health & Life Sciences
CISGEN BIOTECH DISCOVERIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Chennai · Health & Life Sciences
GENICA BIOSCIENCES (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED
Medchal Malkajgiri · Health & Life Sciences
GPLIFE HEALTHCARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Surat · Health & Life Sciences
SATYARX PHARMA INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
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 |
|---|---|
| Gujarat | 3 |
| Haryana | 2 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 1 |
| Karnataka | 1 |
| Chandigarh | 1 |
| Maharashtra | 1 |
| Punjab | 1 |
| Rajasthan | 1 |
| Tamil Nadu | 1 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 |
See pharmaceutical formulation 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 | 48 | 12 |
| 2023 | 78 | 25 |
| 2024 | 79 | 14 |
| 2025 | 42 | 13 |
| 2026partial | 14 | 5 |
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
- ALKEM LABORATORIESIN · 10
- OPTIMUS PHARMAIN · 5
- ADITYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY AIN · 5
- ADITYA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AIN · 5
- BIOPHORE INDIA PHARMACEUTICALSIN · 5
- ADITYA PHARMACY COLLEGE AIN · 4
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- ANAND PHARMACY COLLEGE1 of 1 granted
- BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY POONA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY PUNE1 of 1 granted
- BHARATI VIDYAPEETH S COLLEGE OF PHARMACY1 of 1 granted
- CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY1 of 1 granted
- CHITKARA INNOVATION INCUBATOR FOUNDATION1 of 1 granted
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD1 of 1 granted
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.
Briefings on this technology
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