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Startups in Chennai

15,644 companies on the Startup India register are recorded in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 8,380 of them are DPIIT recognised.

On the register

15,644

DPIIT recognised

8,380

of 15,644 (54%)

Evidence held

8,153

of 15,644 (52%)

Street-level coordinate

149

of 15,644 (1.0%)

Only these may render as a pin.

Chennai on the map

501 distinct coordinates across 15,644 companies. Circle size is how many share a point, not how big a company is. 149 have a street-level coordinate and appear as dots above zoom 10.

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district

4,06,691

locality

56,605

street

4,916

Rings cover an area, not an address.

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Location precision

Bar widths are the real proportions. Only the 149 records with a street-level coordinate are ever drawn as a pin. Everything else is drawn as an area, because that is what we actually know.

street
149
1.0%
We know a street-level coordinate.
locality
2,118
14%
We know the area, not the address.
district
13,377
86%
We know the district only.
unplaced
0
0%
We know nowhere we could verify.

What Chennai builds

Stage mix

Prototype 4,892 Validation 4,851 EarlyTraction 3,829 Scaling 1,832

Stage is self-declared by the company on its Startup India profile. It is not assessed by DPIIT and it is not audited.

Companies we hold evidence for

8,153 of Chennai's 15,644 records carry a description, a website, a CIN or a recognition number. These are a sample of them, ranked by how much we hold.

DPIIT

JURU Yoga Pvt Ltd

Chennai, Tamil Nadu · est 2016

Textiles & Apparel Scaling
DPIIT

Digital Flora

Chennai, Tamil Nadu · est 2019

Agriculture Prototype

LOBSTER

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Other Specialty Retailers Prototype

Nearby

Patiala 387 Nandivaram-Guduvancheri 45 Puttur 32 Ranipet 67 Tirupati 342

About this data

Counts come from our own sweep of the Startup India register, snapshot 2026-08. Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which.

Startup India records a district, not a city, so Chennai here means the district of that name and any districts we fold into it. The raw district is kept on every record. How we counted.