India
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1 Startup funnel
India's startup funnel
Companies headquartered in India at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover or tap a bar for the split.
Source: Dealroom.co
2 Latest quarter
India's latest quarter in venture capital
Venture capital raised by India-headquartered companies each quarter since 2020, split by round size, with detail on the latest complete quarter.
Latest complete quarter
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3 Enterprise value
How much India’s VC-backed companies are worth
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in India, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.
4 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into India
VC investment into India-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in India
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in India, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in India - 2024–2026
6 Startup hubs
Inside India: 8 startup hubs, 2,403 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities and research institutes by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
7 Founder origins
Where India's unicorn founders build
638 founders born in India are behind 323 unicorns; 61% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Asia, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
8 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — India in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
9 Patent intelligence
India startup IP portfolio: 26K patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in India. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
10 Sector concentration
Where India punches above its weight
Sectors in which India's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means India is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
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