Sources and licences
This table renders from the loader's own provenance registry, so it cannot
drift from what we actually recorded. Every company record carries a
redistributable flag inherited
from its sources.
Published on this site
Indian government open data, republishable with attribution. This is 100% of what you see.
| Source | Publisher | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Startup India (DPIIT) | DPIIT, Govt of India | Public government portal |
| Startup India Seed Fund Scheme | DPIIT, Govt of India | Public government portal |
| iStart Rajasthan | Govt of Rajasthan | Public government portal |
| Kerala Startup Mission | Govt of Kerala | Public government portal |
Held internally, never published
These are proprietary directories. We use them for entity resolution, which is how we know two records are the same company, and we do not republish their content. That means the internationally recognisable accelerator overlay, the part of this dataset that would look most impressive, is exactly the part you will not find on these pages.
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | Proprietary, public directory |
| Techstars portfolio | Proprietary, public directory |
| Plug and Play | Proprietary, public directory |
| Antler portfolio | Proprietary, public directory |
| 500 Global portfolio | Proprietary, public directory |
| Nasscom DeepTech Club | Proprietary, public directory |
| Wellfound | Proprietary, public directory |
| FalconEbiz (MCA mirror) | MCA public record via third-party mirror |
| VC / PE portfolio pages | Proprietary, public directory |
| ZaubaCorp (MCA mirror) | MCA public record via third-party mirror |
Deliberately not used
Crunchbase, Tracxn, PitchBook and LinkedIn. All are proprietary analyst products rather than public records. The value of this dataset is that it is assembled from openly licensed government data we can attribute and republish, and mixing in scraped proprietary data would destroy that permanently rather than gradually.
Citing this
Apexlayer Technologies. Indian Startup Map, snapshot 2026-08. 4,56,713 records. https://indianstartupmap.com
Underlying data is published by the Government of India through the Startup India portal and state startup portals. Attribution to the original publisher is required and is preserved on every record.