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Startups in Tamil Nadu

This Tamil Nadu startup map counts the 30,009 companies on the Startup India register recorded across 102 districts of Tamil Nadu. 3,804 of them carry a funding signal of some kind.

30,009 on the register 102 districts 15,308 DPIIT recognised 3,804 with a funding signal 2,908 placed on the map

Tamil Nadu on the map

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The startups in Tamil Nadu we can both place and evidence, about 2,908 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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Tamil Nadu, district by district, with the Seed Fund money.

30,009 startups across Tamil Nadu'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

Tamil Nadu draws 10.9% of the Seed Fund pot on 6.6% of the register: Rs 82.0 crore approved across 18 incubators, of which Rs 57.9 crore has been disbursed. Chennai holds 52.2% of the state and Coimbatore 13.6%, which makes it one of the few large states whose second city is not a rounding error. The funding-signal rate, 12.7%, runs above the 10.5% national figure, though a signal here means a public mention of money raised and nothing more.

What Tamil Nadu 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 Tamil Nadu against the Startup India census facet, with the difference
Our count 30,009
Government census 31,422
Difference -1,413 (-4.5%)

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 Tamil Nadu

Approved

Rs 82.0 cr

across 18 incubators

Disbursed

Rs 57.9 cr

71% of approved

Tamil Nadu holds 10.9% of the national Seed Fund pot. See the incubator ledger.

Companies in Tamil Nadu

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. 14,913 of the 30,009 Tamil Nadu 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.

DPIIT

BOX FOOD

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu · est 2021

IT Services Validation
DPIIT

SCHOOL OF SPORTS

Chennai, Tamil Nadu · est 2019

Sports EarlyTraction

Districts

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

Chennai 15,662 Coimbatore 4,095 Madurai 1,077 Salem 868 Tiruchirappalli 852 Erode 732 Tiruppur 580 Krishnagiri 428 Thanjavur 425 Vellore 401 Namakkal 388 Tirunelveli 387 Kanyakumari 329 Cuddalore 289 Thoothukudi 268 Dindigul 262 Viluppuram 226 Karur 210 Virudhunagar 206 Sivaganga 168 Tiruvannamalai 165 Theni 155 Nagercoil 143 Dharmapuri 133 Pudukkottai 122 The Nilgiris 118 Nagapattinam 117 Ramanathapuram 117 Tiruvarur 105 Ranipet 69 Tenkasi 63 Sivakasi 54 Tirupathur 50 Ariyalur 48 Arakkonam 47 Perambalur 46 Nandivaram-Guduvancheri 45 Pollachi 39 Rajapalayam 36 Gobichettipalayam 33 Udumalaipettai 31 Udhagamandalam 27

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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