Technology Hotbed · Health & Life Sciences
Pharmaceutical Synthesis
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: ▼ Cooling
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
556
Patents
8
Startups matched
112
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Startups working on pharmaceutical synthesis
Deep-tech startups with a patent tagged this technology
BioCon
Pune · Materials & Nanotech
KLIO PHARMA PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
SUMAR BIOTECH LLP
Ahmedabad · Health & Life Sciences
Tylon Pharma Private Limited
Thane · Health & Life Sciences
Bugworks Research India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru Urban · Health & Life Sciences
NSJ PRAYOG LIFE SCIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
pharmaceuticals
Hyderabad · Health & Life Sciences
SETV.ASRV LLP
Bengaluru Urban · 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 |
|---|---|
| Telangana | 5 |
| Maharashtra | 3 |
| West Bengal | 2 |
| Gujarat | 1 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 |
| Karnataka | 1 |
See pharmaceutical synthesis 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 | 158 | 38 |
| 2023 | 144 | 33 |
| 2024 | 157 | 36 |
| 2025 | 63 | 30 |
| 2026partial | 20 | 12 |
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
- METROCHEM APIIN · 40
- BIOPHORE INDIA PHARMACEUTICALSIN · 21
- MSN LABORATORIES R D CENTERIN · 21
- OPTIMUS DRUGSIN · 17
- DR REDDY S LABORATORIESIN · 13
- NATCO PHARMAIN · 11
Educational institutes (6) - ranked by grant rate (share of filings granted, sample-adjusted), not filing volume
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS3 of 3 granted
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NIPER KOLKATA3 of 5 granted
- CHIKITSAK SAMUHA S S S L S PATKAR VARDE COLLEGE1 of 1 granted
- DIRECTOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH GUWAHATI NIPER G1 of 1 granted
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH RAEBARELI1 of 1 granted
- SARDAR VALLABHBHAI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SURAT1 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
tech brief
India Makes the World's Medicines. It Buys the Molecules From China.
60 of 90 critical pharma ingredients India tracks run over 90% China-sourced. 6-APA, the penicillin core, runs 95.9%. Our largest deep-tech sector is funding AI diagnostics instead.
tech brief
Pharma Synthesis in India: Chasing Purity and Greener Routes
Indian innovators are reworking synthetic pathways to cut impurities, lift yields, and make large-scale production cleaner—without sacrificing cost.