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Lucknow Startup Report 2026
7,614 companies on the Startup India register give Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, as their district in the August 2026 snapshot. 3,621 are DPIIT recognised and 727 carry a funding signal of some class.
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What the register says about Lucknow
The numbers the report opens with, counted from the August 2026 snapshot. The same figures are on Startups in Lucknow, and they will not differ.
| Startups on the register | 7,614 |
|---|---|
| DPIIT recognised | 3,621 (47.6%) |
| With a CIN on file | 4,614 (60.6%) |
| With a website on file | 3,116 (40.9%) |
| With a description to read | 3,506 (46.0%) |
| With a funding signal of any class | 727 (9.5%) |
| Placed to a street | 2,631 (34.6%) |
| Largest category | IT Services, 917 |
| Categories used here | 56 |
The government's count beside ours
| Our count | 45,182 |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh, the government's state facet | 47,995 |
| Difference | -2,813 (-5.9%) |
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
Lucknow holds 7,614 of Uttar Pradesh's 45,182 registered startups, 16.9% of the state. IT Services is its largest category with 917 companies (12.0%) out of 56 categories in use. 4,614 of the 7,614 carry a CIN and 3,116 a website, which is what the best-evidenced table in chapter 8 is built from.
727 carry a funding signal of some class. 715 of those are the self-declared checkbox on the government form and 13 are attested by a named backer, fund or state programme; the report prints the classes apart and never adds them into one "funded" number. 2,631 of Lucknow's startups can be placed to a street, which is the population the pincode chapter ranks.
Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. 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 45 A4 pages. Each names its fields, its chart or table, and the caveat it carries. Every one is open.
- 01 What the register says about Lucknow pp. 4-6 Open
- 02 How the register grew pp. 7-10 Open
- 03 What Lucknow's startups do pp. 11-13 Open
- 04 Stage pp. 14-15 Open
- 05 Legal form and capital pp. 16-18 Open
- 06 Funding evidence and public money pp. 19-21 Open
- 07 Where in Lucknow pp. 22-24 Open
- 08 The best-evidenced startups pp. 25-28 Open
- 09 Tax exemption applications pp. 29-30 Open
- 10 Lucknow against its peers pp. 31-32 Open
- 11 The government's count beside ours pp. 33-34 Open
- 12 Organisations in Lucknow pp. 35-37 Open
- 13 Methodology and limitations pp. 38-39 Open
- 14 Appendix pp. 40-44 Open
What the pages look like
Pages from the Lucknow report, which is open in full: the cover, the first data table and the first chart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 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 Lucknow report?
- 14 chapters over 45 pages: What the register says about Lucknow, How the register grew, What Lucknow'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 Lucknow, and the whole Lucknow report is open so you can see the other 13 chapters before paying for any.
- How fresh is the Lucknow 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 Lucknow 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. 3,621 of Lucknow's 7,614 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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