AI startups in India
11,961 companies on the Startup India register chose AI as their category, 2.6% of all 4,53,192 startups in our 2026-08 snapshot. The government's own census of the same register counts 12,134; it categorises differently, and neither number is the other's error.
Where AI is
One bubble per district, sized by how many AI companies are registered in it. Bubbles are drawn at the district's own centre, not at any company's address. Click one for that district.
The 29 districts holding at least 50 AI companies, which is 9,086 of the 11,961 on the register (76%). The rest are spread across districts with too few for a page of their own, and are counted in every figure above.
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AI across India, state by state.
11,961 companies chose AI on the register. All 36 states ranked, the largest districts on a map, the sectors inside the category, and its neighbours by size.
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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trust@indianstartupmap.comWhere AI concentrates
Ranked by what share of the district's own registrations this industry takes, not by raw count, so this is not simply a list of the largest cities. Nationally the figure is 2.6%. Districts with fewer than 250 companies are excluded, because a small base makes a share meaningless.
- Bengaluru 1,859 of 33,982 in the district 5.5%
- Thiruvananthapuram 120 of 2,506 in the district 4.8%
- Gurugram 445 of 10,448 in the district 4.3%
- Hyderabad 881 of 20,860 in the district 4.2%
- Chennai 589 of 15,662 in the district 3.8%
- Noida 403 of 10,942 in the district 3.7%
- Visakhapatnam 83 of 2,304 in the district 3.6%
- Kochi 170 of 4,959 in the district 3.4%
- Coimbatore 138 of 4,095 in the district 3.4%
- Pune 621 of 19,787 in the district 3.1%
- Jaipur 284 of 9,551 in the district 3.0%
- Chandigarh 53 of 1,849 in the district 2.9%
Largest districts
The same industry ranked by company count rather than by share.
Nearby in size
Industry is chosen by the company from the government's own list when it registers. It is self-selected, not audited, and a company may pick more than one. The census figure is what the government's own search returns for this category over its whole population of 4,67,663 startups; ours is 11,961 out of 4,53,192. The two are counted over different populations, so the difference is the size of that gap and not an error bar.
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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