Deep-Tech Discovery · India
Deeptech Navigator
Data as of 07 Sept 2026Methodology
The startups, patents, filers and inventors behind India's deep tech - mapped for investors scouting deals, founders sizing their field, R&D teams tracking who files what, and policymakers measuring what institutions produce.
27,666 deep-tech startups mapped · 4,81,614 patents analysed · 29,172 foreign filers tracked · 9,03,290 inventors
Sectors
Health & Life Sciences
5,492 startups · 1,00,538 patents
27% foreign-filed
Communications
269 startups · 54,596 patents
62% foreign-filed
Mobility & Transport
3,139 startups · 47,396 patents
32% foreign-filed
Energy
2,977 startups · 45,995 patents
43% foreign-filed
Computing & AI
2,629 startups · 43,092 patents
30% foreign-filed
Agri & Food
1,265 startups · 28,412 patents
17% foreign-filed
Materials & Nanotech
2,878 startups · 27,872 patents
48% foreign-filed
Robotics & Industrial Automation
4,468 startups · 21,685 patents
27% foreign-filed
Climate & Environment
608 startups · 16,484 patents
18% foreign-filed
Fintech & Consumer
291 startups · 16,401 patents
19% foreign-filed
Defence & Security
663 startups · 13,226 patents
14% foreign-filed
Semiconductors
467 startups · 5,422 patents
53% foreign-filed
Space
635 startups · 871 patents
16% foreign-filed
Quantum
210 startups · 438 patents
28% foreign-filed
Latest briefings
Browse all reports by sector →Research-grade reads on India's deep-tech technologies - each grounded in our patent and startup data, with a technology-and-business knowledge graph.
tech brief
India Has 3,344 Funded Deeptech Companies. Ninety-Seven Have Reached Series B.
The received wisdom is that Indian deeptech trails the West by a few years. We tested that across eleven sectors and it holds in three. The real gap is not timing. It is that a 2014-2020 cohort of Indian deeptech converts from seed to Series B at 7.2%, against 12.3% in the UK and 18.7% in the US.
06 Sept 2026
tech brief
India's Energy Sector Looks 97% China-Free. Its Batteries Are 75% Chinese.
Energy is India's least China-dependent sector at 2.8%, until you look at lithium-ion cells, which run 75.2% Chinese. It's the one sector where patents, startups and capital point the right way.
29 Aug 2026
tech brief
India's Semiconductor Import Bill: $9.4B From China, and Who's Actually Building the Alternative
India imported $9.4B in semiconductor devices from China in FY2024-25, 35% of its world imports in the category. Our patent and startup data shows exactly where domestic capability exists.
29 Aug 2026
tech brief
India Shut Chinese Vendors Out of Its Telecom Networks. The Components Inside Didn't Change.
India's trusted-source rules cut China to 13% of finished telecom equipment. But 52% of the parts inside that equipment are still Chinese, and 82% of 2024's communications patents are foreign-filed.
29 Aug 2026
What Deeptech Navigator does for you
India's deep-tech, mapped from the public patent and startup record. Start free with the trends, momentum, map and the company & institute quality leaderboards - sign in for the rosters, profiles and IP intelligence behind them.
Founders
Know whether your tech is defensible - and exactly who else is in your space.
- See which startups in your sector have real, matched IP behind themFree preview
- Search patents and companies for your idea in plain wordsMembers
- Track which technologies are gaining momentumFree
- Find the inventors and rival filers around your technologyMembers
Investors
Diligence the tech, map the landscape, and see who's filing and funding.
- Open full company dossiers - DPIIT, funding, founders, matched patentsMembers
- Rank the patents that matter by AI-assessed value and the firms holding themMembers
- Reach investors, accelerators & incubators with contacts, thesis and portfoliosMembers
- Frame a sector fast - trends, problems and its lead filersFree preview
Policymakers
Track where India's deep-tech is moving - and which institutes and sectors lead.
- See where filing activity concentrates - companies vs colleges, by cityFree
- Read the national IP trend across deep-tech sectorsFree
- Rank research institutes by a 0-100 patent-quality scoreFree
- Map investors, incubators and institutions by stateFree
Zero in on funded, IP-backed companies in your exact sector, state and stage instead of scrolling a generic startup list
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15-of-N teaser roster per sectorMembers
Full roster, every filter, sort & CSVWalk into an outreach or a meeting knowing a company's DPIIT status, funding, founders and matched patents
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Complete dossier + IP evidence with confidence chipsCatch which deep-tech themes are heating up before they're obvious, ranked straight from the patent record
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Full index, trends & top filersMembers
Full index, trends & top filersFind where to site, hire or fund - the cities and campuses where a technology is actually being built
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Full interactive mapMembers
Full interactive mapDescribe an idea in your own words and surface every company and patent working on it - no keyword guessing
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Both lenses (per scope) + AI refineIdentify the real experts behind a technology - who to hire, partner with, or diligence
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Ranked inventors, their assignees & filingsCut through hundreds of thousands of filings to the foundational, broad-scope IP and the firms holding it
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Full AI-value filters & assigneesSpot the incumbent to partner with or design around - and surface acquisition targets by portfolio strength
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Full ranked leaderboard - grant rate & lapsed shareMembers
+ open each filer's full profile & IPJudge institutes on a 0-100 patent-quality score, not raw volume - see who leads on real research IP
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Full quality-scored, sortable leaderboardMembers
+ open each institute's profile & portfolioFind the right investor, incubator or lab for a sector - and see who they've already backed
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Contact-free directory + choroplethMembers
Full records incl. contacts, thesis & portfoliosSearch beyond the curated set across every registered Indian company, each carrying a deep-tech verdict
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Full keyset browser + filtersJump from a brand name, legal name or plain idea to the exact company, entity or inventor in one box
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Named free kinds + count-only teaser for gated kindsMembers
All names revealed per scope heldFree - no sign-in
- Sector overviews, technology momentum and national IP trends
- Company & research-institute patent-quality leaderboards - the full rankings (open a profile to go deeper)
- The filing & startup map - companies vs colleges, down to the city
- Contact-free ecosystem directory of investors, accelerators, incubators & research institutes
- Teaser rosters (15 of N startups per sector) and count-only search for gated kinds
- Methodology, briefings and every public credibility page
Members
- Startup Explorer: full rosters, company profiles with matched IP evidence, and the ~454k full registry
- Technical Insights: the patent value explorer, inventor finder, and the entity & patent profiles behind every leaderboard
- Plain-words Discover across startups and patents, plus named results in unified search
- Ecosystem records with business contacts, thesis and matched portfolios
- CSV export of your shortlists (up to 100 rows)
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Founder's guide
Moonshots and Marathons
A Practical Guidebook to Building and Scaling DeepTech Startups in India
The essential playbook for founders building the impossible - satellites, AI breakthroughs, climate solutions, life-saving biotech. From the team behind Deeptech Navigator, it's a field guide to the 7–10 year deep-tech journey in India.
- ·Master the long game of scaling
- ·Secure patient capital
- ·Survive the R&D valleys of death (TRL 4–6)
- ·Build an IP fortress
- ·Navigate investor scrutiny
By Chirag Gupta, Govind Kedia, Sunil Shekhawat · Penguin Random House India
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Patent & IP analysis by Arctic Invent.