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Karnataka Startup Report 2026
41,489 companies on the Startup India register are recorded across 90 districts of Karnataka in the August 2026 snapshot. 23,014 are DPIIT recognised and 4,589 carry a funding signal of some class.
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What the register says about Karnataka
The numbers the report opens with, counted from the August 2026 snapshot. The same figures are on Startups in Karnataka, and they will not differ.
| Startups on the register | 41,489 |
|---|---|
| Districts on the register | 90 |
| Districts with a page (25+ startups) | 34 |
| DPIIT recognised | 23,014 (55.5%) |
| With a description to read | 22,460 (54.1%) |
| With a funding signal of any class | 4,589 (11.1%) |
| Largest district | Bengaluru, 33,982 (81.9%) |
| Largest category | IT Services, 5,182 |
| Seed Fund approved | Rs 82.5 crore across 18 incubators |
| Seed Fund disbursed | Rs 53.5 crore (65% of approved) |
The government's count beside ours
| Our count | 41,489 |
|---|---|
| Karnataka, the government's state facet | 43,862 |
| Difference | -2,373 (-5.4%) |
A gap is expected and is not an error in either number: ours counts resolved companies after merging duplicate profiles, the government's counts profiles.
What stands out
Karnataka is a one-city register. Bengaluru accounts for 81.9% of the state total, and Mysuru, the next district down, holds 2.8%. Only 34 of the state's 90 district labels carry enough records for a page. Recognition runs at 55.5% and the funding-signal rate at 11.1%, both above the national 51.2% and 10.5%. The Seed Fund has approved Rs 82.5 crore across 18 incubators, 10.9% of the national pot. A funding signal is a public mention of money raised, not a confirmed round.
Bengaluru holds 33,982 of the state's 41,489, 81.9%, and Mysuru is second with 1,174. IT Services is the largest category with 5,182 companies. The government's own facet for Karnataka counts 43,862 against our 41,489; the report prints both and explains the gap rather than hiding it. The Seed Fund has approved Rs 82.5 crore across 18 incubators here and disbursed Rs 53.5 crore, which is the ledger chapter 6 prints per incubator.
Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. A scheme registration is not money. How we counted.
Composed from the August 2026 counts. Edition 1 replaces this with the report's own written summary.
Inside the report
14 chapters across 52 A4 pages. Each names its fields, its chart or table, and the caveat it carries. Chapter 1 is on this page; the rest open with a purchase, or in the free Lucknow report.
- 01 What the register says about Karnataka pp. 4-6 Free, above
- 02 How the register grew pp. 7-10
- 03 What Karnataka's startups do pp. 11-14
- 04 Stage pp. 15-16
- 05 Legal form and capital pp. 17-19
- 06 Funding evidence and public money pp. 20-22
- 07 Districts pp. 23-26
- 08 The best-evidenced startups pp. 27-30
- 09 Tax exemption applications pp. 31-32
- 10 Karnataka against its peers pp. 33-34
- 11 The government's count beside ours pp. 35-36
- 12 Organisations in Karnataka pp. 37-40
- 13 Methodology and limitations pp. 41-43
- 14 Appendix pp. 44-51
What the pages look like
Pages from the 52-page Karnataka PDF: the cover, the first data table and the first chart. Every chapter is set the same way, A4, with the caveat it needs at the foot of the page.
Who it is for
- Sales and lead-gen teams
- A filterable list with website and CIN. Registration is not activity and we say so; every row carries what the register holds, you can filter to companies with all six evidence marks, and the first 25 rows of any filter are free.
- Ecosystem professionals
- A citable, designed report for a deck or a tender: eight things the site does not have, from the monthly curve since 2016 to the tax-exemption applications, with Lucknow open in full so you can judge the series before buying into it.
- Investors and researchers
- Companies by industry, district, stage and evidence, in four honest classes and never one "funded" boolean, plus the exemption applications nobody else publishes. We hold no amounts and we never fake them.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | What it opens | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report | ₹249 one-time | One report as a PDF and as chapters in the portal, and every refreshed edition of it for 12 months. Explore stays at the free-account level. | Get the Karnataka report |
| Library | ₹749 per year | All 138 reports and their monthly editions, the feed with rows, Explore at 200 rows per search, backer portfolios in full, 10 saved searches. No export. | Get Library |
| Pro | ₹2,249 per year | Everything in Library, plus every row in Explore, CSV and XLSX export (5,000 rows a file, 50,000 rows and 20 distinct scopes per rolling 30 days), saved searches with monthly alerts, backer portfolio export. One seat. | Get Pro |
| Data licence | By conversation | The full set, older snapshots, and a feed or an API for your own systems. One email with what you are building; no price is printed because the answer depends on it. | trust@indianstartupmap.com |
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Five questions
- What is in the Karnataka report?
- 14 chapters over 52 pages: What the register says about Karnataka, How the register grew, What Karnataka's startups do, Stage, and 10 more, ending in the methodology and an appendix. It comes as a PDF and as chapters inside the research portal, and one purchase covers every refreshed edition of this report for 12 months.
- Is it just the Indian Startup Map website printed to PDF?
- No. Eight things the site does not have: the monthly registration curve since 2016, capital bands, every pincode ranked, the peer table, the government's count beside ours, the 60 best-evidenced in one table, the Seed Fund ledger, and the tax-exemption applications. The free chapter on this page is the one part that overlaps with Startups in Karnataka, and the whole Lucknow report is open so you can see the other 13 chapters before paying for any.
- How fresh is the Karnataka report?
- It is built from the August 2026 snapshot of the register, edition 1. The register is swept monthly and each sweep produces a new edition; a Report buyer receives every edition of this report for 12 months. Nothing in it claims growth across snapshots until two exist to compare.
- Can I get the list of Karnataka startups instead?
- The report is chapters, not rows. The rows are in Explore on the research portal: the count for any filter is free, the first 25 rows with website and CIN on a free account, 200 per search on Library, and every row with a CSV or XLSX export on Pro, 5,000 rows a file and never the address line.
- What does "registered" mean here?
- Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. A startup on this register filled in a Startup India profile. 23,014 of Karnataka's 41,489 carry DPIIT recognition, which is a status the portal shows and not a check we ran. Registration is not incorporation, and it is not activity.
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