About
Indian Startup Map is published by Apexlayer Technologies Private Limited (CIN U58201HR2025PTC135312), trading as Apexlayer Technologies, from C/O WeWork India, DLF Forum, DLF Cyber City Phase III, Sector 24, Gurugram, Haryana 122002, India. It takes the startup data the Indian government already publishes, which is scattered across a portal that paginates nine startups at a time and several state sites, and turns it into something you can actually read: 4,53,192 companies, placed, classified and cross-checked across 712 districts and 36 states.
Why it exists
The data is public but not usable. The commercial products that make it usable put it behind a paywall and will not tell you where their numbers came from. There is room for something that is free, cites its sources on every page, and is honest about the large parts it does not know.
How it is paid for
The site is free and stays free. It is paid for by the research portal: 241 designed reports on the same register, 153 districts, 36 states, 51 industries and India, at ₹249 each, and the rows behind them. The Lucknow report is open in full so a buyer can judge the series before paying, and the pricing page says exactly where each plan's limit is. Nobody listed here is ever asked for money.
What it does not do
Indian Startup Map is an independent publication by Apexlayer Technologies. We are not DPIIT, not Startup India, and not affiliated with the Government of India. A page on this site is a listing, not an endorsement.
It does not rank companies, score them, or tell you which are worth your money. It has no view on any company. It is a register with a map, and the most useful thing about it is that it tells you how confident to be in every figure it shows you: only 1,64,879 of the 4,53,192 startups can be placed at a street, so everything else is drawn as an area and labelled as one. The methodology is where that is set out in full, and the data page checks our counts against the government's own.
Corrections
trust@indianstartupmap.com is monitored. If a page here is wrong, we would rather hear it than not. What you may do with the data itself is on the licence page.