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Funding evidence

Startups named in an incubator portfolio

787 companies, 1.6% of the 47,744 on the register carrying any funding signal.

Named in an incubator or accelerator’s own published portfolio. Most of these are university and Atal Innovation Mission centres, which support companies with space, mentoring and small grants rather than with venture money, so read this as institutional backing and not as a round.

Startups named in an incubator portfolio

The interactive map is unavailable here. The district list below carries the same companies.

Where they are

The 163 districts holding at least one. Each links to that district's full funded map.

The organisations

Programmes with 10 or more Indian companies we could match to a record.

Atal Incubation Centre Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University 20 I Hub Foundation for Cobotics 14 IIM Kashipur Foundation for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development 14 SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY 14 FOUNDATION FOR CfHE 12 K L Technology Incubators Foundation 12 AIC-MIT ADT Incubator Forum 10 Shobhit University 10 V-NEST VIT CHENNAI STARTUP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION 10

The other evidence classes

Startups named on an investor portfolioStartups named in an accelerator batchStartups that reported funding to a state scheme Every funded startup →

Questions people ask

How many Indian startups are on an incubator portfolio?

787 in our 2026-08 snapshot, out of 47,744 carrying any funding signal at all and 4,53,192 on the register. That is 1.6% of the funded set. The number is small because the evidence bar is high: 98% of the funded set is the self-declared checkbox on the government form.

Why is this number so much smaller than other startup databases?

Because we only count evidence we can point at, and only for companies we can also find on the Indian government's register with a redistributable record. We hold no Crunchbase or Tracxn licence, so a round that was only ever reported in the press is invisible to us. This is a floor, not a census. How we counted.

Does this mean these companies are still trading?

No. Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which.