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Startups in Kerala

This Kerala startup map counts the 15,697 companies on the Startup India register recorded across 51 districts of Kerala. 1,804 of them carry a funding signal of some kind.

15,697 on the register 51 districts 8,854 DPIIT recognised 1,804 with a funding signal 3,782 placed on the map

Kerala on the map

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The startups in Kerala we can both place and evidence, about 3,782 of them. Bubbles are groups; zoom in and they separate into companies, coloured by who is behind each one. A number always zooms in, a single dot opens the company.

"About", because the map counts by coordinate and that figure counts by company. A coordinate belongs to whichever district contributes most of the companies sitting on it, so a handful registered just over a state line are drawn on the neighbour's side of it. The map's own counter, under the filter button, always says exactly what is on screen.

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Kerala, district by district, with the Seed Fund money.

15,697 startups across Kerala's districts as a table with a choropleth, the Seed Fund ledger per incubator with approvals, disbursements and draw-down, the state scheme where one exists, and the government's count beside ours.

Inside every report

  • The monthly registration curve since 2016
  • Every pincode ranked, with the precision ladder
  • The 60 best-evidenced startups in one table
  • The government's count beside ours
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What this state's numbers show

Kerala's count comes closer to the government's than that of any other state with more than a thousand entries: 15,697 against a census facet of 15,878, a gap of 1.1% where most states sit near four and a half. Its register is also unusually flat for a southern state, with Kochi at 31.6%, Thiruvananthapuram at 16.0% and Kozhikode behind them rather than one dominant metro. Recognition runs at 56.4% against 51.2% nationally. The Seed Fund has approved Rs 18.0 crore across 5 incubators.

What Kerala builds

The category each company chose for itself from the government's list when it registered. Self-selected, never audited.

We checked our count against the government's

The Startup India API returns facet counts computed over the entire register on every search response. That is an independent number we did not produce, so it is a real check on our own sweep rather than a restatement of it.

Our count for Kerala against the Startup India census facet, with the difference
Our count 15,697
Government census 15,878
Difference -181 (-1.1%)

A difference is expected and is not an error in either number. Ours counts resolved companies after merging duplicate profiles; the government's counts profiles. We also exclude startups we may not republish.

Seed Fund money in Kerala

Approved

Rs 18.0 cr

across 5 incubators

Disbursed

Rs 14.5 cr

80% of approved

Kerala holds 2.4% of the national Seed Fund pot. See the incubator ledger.

Companies in Kerala

We do not list every company. One appears here only where the register holds more than a name for it: a description the company wrote about itself, and either a CIN or a website. 8,500 of the 15,697 Kerala registrations clear that bar. These are the 60 we hold the most for, best-evidenced first. Search reaches the rest.

It is a test of whether there is anything to read, not of whether the company is trading. 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.

What the six marks mean

  • DPIIT recognised
  • CIN on file
  • Website
  • Description
  • Logo
  • Funding signal

A filled mark is a field we hold for that company. A hollow one is a field we do not. It is a summary of what the register gave us, not a rating: none of it says whether the company is trading.

Districts

Every district of Kerala on the register. The ones with 25 startups or more have their own page and map.

Kochi 4,959 Thiruvananthapuram 2,506 Kozhikode 1,519 Thrissur 1,220 Malappuram 843 Palakkad 700 Kollam 698 Kannur 631 Kottayam 604 Alappuzha 453 Pathanamthitta 243 Idukki 220 Wayanad 203 Kasaragod 175 Adoor 44 Thodupuzha 44 Muvattupuzha 43 Thiruvalla 41 Perinthalmanna 40 Changanassery 35 Ottappalam 35 Tirur 35 Chalakudy 34 Perumbavoor 30 Nilambur 28 Attingal 26 Cherthala 26

About this data

Indian Startup Map is an independent directory built from the Government of India's Startup India register and other public sources, snapshot 2026-08. We do not run the register, we do not own or represent any company on it, and nothing here is an endorsement of one. Company names and logos belong to their owners. Every source is listed.

A dot on the map may be wrong, and most of them are not an address. Most startups sit at the centre of their district, which is a label position and not a place. Where we do hold something finer it is a geocode of a registered office, which is frequently a founder's home rather than a place of business, so we round it and never publish the address line.

Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. Figures come from our own count of that snapshot and will differ from the government's own census, which counts differently.

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