Terms of use

Four things worth agreeing on before you use 4,53,192 government records that we did not create and cannot vouch for.

Using the site

Read it, search it, link to it, quote it. Nothing is behind a login and nothing costs money. Automated collection at a rate that degrades the site for other people is the one thing we will block, and if you want the data in bulk it is faster to ask: the route is on the licence page.

A record is not a certificate

This is the clause that matters. A page here reproduces what a government portal published about a company. It is not a certificate, not a verification, not an endorsement, and not a due diligence artefact. Do not use it as one, and do not present it to anyone else as one.

Registration is not an operating signal. A large share of registered startups are dormant, and we have no way to tell you which. The methodology sets out precisely what we hold, how precise each coordinate is, and the long list of things we do not know.

We are not the government

Indian Startup Map is an independent publication by Apexlayer Technologies. We are not DPIIT, not Startup India, and not affiliated with the Government of India. A page on this site is a record, not an endorsement.

Nothing here is an official communication, and no page on this site can confer, confirm or withdraw a recognition, a registration or a benefit. The portals listed on the sources page are the authoritative ones.

No warranty

The data is provided as is, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for any purpose. Some records here are wrong, because some of the source records are wrong, and a snapshot is stale the moment it is taken. To the extent the law allows, Apexlayer Technologies is not liable for a decision taken on the basis of anything published here. That is not a disclaimer we hide behind: it is why every figure on the site is shown with its provenance and its precision.

Reuse, names and marks

Our counts, aggregates and rankings are free to reuse with attribution, and we would rather be quoted than protected. The licence says what is covered, and the citation page gives you something to paste. Company names and logos belong to their owners, appear only to identify the company a record refers to, and imply no affiliation in either direction.

Getting something fixed

Corrections at the source portal reach us on the next snapshot, and that is the authoritative place to make them. To flag an error on our side, or to ask for a logo or a record to be removed, write to trust@indianstartupmap.com. We annotate rather than silently overwrite, so a corrected page will say what the portal says and what we believe.

The housekeeping

Apexlayer Technologies publishes this site from India, and these terms are read under Indian law. If we change them, the changed page is the version that applies, and material changes get a note here rather than a silent edit. What we measure while you read is a separate question, answered on the privacy page.