2,231 AI companies in India, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
2,231companies tracked
$2.8Bdisclosed funding
309hiring right now
552events · 24 months
214,830news articles · 12 months
Who leads AI in India
Shows the most prominent AI firms in India, listing hiring leaders, best‑funded companies, and the number currently recruiting (309) and those that have disclosed funding (362).
The AI market map of India: what these companies actually do
Breaks down AI firms by product type, highlighting enterprise tech (1,715) and SaaS (1,137), and shows the dominant revenue model of subscriptions used by 1,945 firms.
FundingChemelex has announced a minority investment in Algo8 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in manufacturing processes.2026-04-25
FundingIntellithink Advanced Hardware & Technology Internet Of Things (IoT) & Hardware B2B $1.8 Mn Seed Pentathlon Ventures, Anicut Capital, Veltis Capital Pentathlon Ventures2026-04-18
M&AThermax acquired ExactSpace, a specialist in AI-driven industrial IoT solutions.2026-04-16
FundingLondon-based HR tech startup TraqCheck has closed its £5.9m series A funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, with participation from IIFL.2026-04-14
M&AExotel has acquired the core team of voice AI startup Dubverse2026-04-11
FundingIndia’s homegrown artificial intelligence start-up, Sarvam AI, is close to raising $300 million to $350 million as it seeks to build a domestic player that can compete with leaders from the US and China. Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead the round, with Nvidia Corp, Amazon.com Inc and Prosperity7 Ventures also participating.2026-04-03
FundingNeysa — accounted for roughly $600 million of this year’s funding, backed by investors including Blackstone, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Nexus Venture Partners.2026-03-29
FundingIn AI-led services, Qure.AI secured a grant from the Gates Foundation for its medical imaging solutions.2026-03-29
M&AAI & Analytics company, C5i, today announced the signing of an agreement to fully acquire Datavid, a data & AI company that helps organizations transform fragmented, unstructured, and siloed data into trusted, AI-ready data architectures using advanced data and graph engineering, knowledge graph design, and semantic modeling.2026-03-19
FundingAI recruitment start-up HireBound has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Kalaari Capital as it seeks to automate the end-to-end hiring process using agent-driven technology.2026-02-25
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a AI company in India was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
a previous employer on record for 153 of 2,353 founders
Microsoft49
Amazon19
Flipkart15
Intel14
Goldman Sachs11
Boston Consulting Group10
Cisco10
Google10
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 2,213 founders with a profile on this page
43
carry a repeat-founder flag
flagged as repeat founders43
no repeat-founder flag2,170
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 1,934 of 2,353 founders
11%
of matched founders are women
women208
men1,726
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 419 founders go in neither column.
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Counts 214,830 news articles in the last year, showing the most covered topics such as product launches, technology adoption, and strategic partnerships.
News volume
AI coverage across India · articles per quarter
2021Q22026Q1
peak 64,054 in 2026Q1 · 214,830 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 73% → 77%, negative 26% → 21% across 2021–2025.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate AI news in India. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
New product launches and innovations19,140▲+35%
Technology adoption and digital transformation16,485▲+38%
Strategic partnerships and collaborations16,133▲+51%
Latest gadgets and consumer electronics9,989▲+11%
Artificial intelligence advancements9,305▲+65%
Mobile operating systems8,783▲+15%
Global market entry strategies7,528▲+56%
Company expansions and new market entries7,527▲+84%
Executive leadership changes and appointments6,011▲+68%
Three recurring angles in India AI coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Regulatory Risk ▲ rising
220,255 articles touch this dimension · 61.4% critical tone
20212025
signals: stock performance, ai regulation compliance, stock indices
Funding Momentum ▲ rising
45,704 articles touch this dimension · 56.3% critical tone
20212025
signals: pre-ipo valuation, neural network ventures, ai infrastructure financing
Growth ▲ rising
110,365 articles touch this dimension · 52.9% critical tone
20212025
signals: gdp growth rate, economic output growth, gdp acceleration
AI jobs in India: who is hiring and what they ask for
Reports 923 job postings from 274 AI employers in the past year, with common skills like Python and AWS and a median advertised salary of $8 k per year.
923postings · last 12 months
1,336postings tracked overall
274employers advertising
$8kmedian advertised salary/yr (n=294)
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What AI employers in India put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
python232▲
javascript127▲
aws85▲
java79▲
communication skills70▲
sql69▲
machine learning64▲
communication62▲
kubernetes61▲
lead generation61▲
What level are these roles?
Entry31
Intern80
Senior196
Lead113
Manager225
What they pay, by level
Senior$13k/yr (n=47)
Most advertised titles
Inside Sales Specialist12
Video Editor7
Customer Success Manager7
Product Manager7
Frontend Developer6
Senior Devops Engineer6
36 AI-relevant internships in India were advertised over the same 12 months.
What AI research in India is working on
Lists 1,358 India‑affiliated AI research papers, noting a focus on opportunities (1,051 papers) and limited coverage of safety, environmental, and fairness issues.
How this field talks about itself
India-affiliated AI papers (gold) against all published research (grey)
Breakthrough47.8% · 26.6%1.8×
Promising29.6% · 36.8%0.8×
Descriptive8.4% · 17.4%0.5×
Problem-identifying6.0% · 9.6%0.6×
Comparative4.5% · 4.0%≈ par
Cautionary2.6% · 4.5%0.6×
India-affiliated AI literature runs 1.8× more “breakthrough” than science at large (47.8% vs 26.6% baseline).
“Thermal-Aware Small-Delay Defect Testing in Integrated Circuits for Mitigating Overkill”
Opportunities · theme 07
Smart Energy Management
357 papers · 6.8% of this block
▲ +8% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Works highlight machine‑learning driven control for microgrids and intelligent power distribution.
Energy management · Energy management system · Smart grid · Microgrid
“Intelligent Energy Management System for Smart Grids Using Machine Learning Algorithms”
Which of these themes are growing fastest
Tracks shifts in AI research themes by their share of global output from 2022 to 2025.
Problems
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
AI System Design Issues▲+282%
Digital Transformation Obstacles▲+109%
IoT‑Cloud Interoperability▲+50%
Sustainable Computing Concerns▲+43%
Edge‑Cloud Coordination Limits▲+37%
Cloud Security Challenges▼-17%
Load Balancing Difficulties▼-34%
Cautions
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
AI Transparency in Healthcare▲+447%
Digital Change Workforce Impact▲+140%
Robustness of AI Defenses▲+24%
Scalability and Security Risks▼-3%
Opportunities
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Scalable Cloud Analytics▲+93%
Intelligent IoT Applications▲+59%
Smart Energy Management▲+8%
Advanced Pattern Recognition▲+6%
Optimized Cloud Scheduling▼-2%
Secure Cloud Cryptography▼-18%
VLSI Design Enhancements▼-28%
Blind spots
What AI research barely talks about
This field writes about itself optimistically: 79.8% of India-affiliated research here reads as a breakthrough or a promise, against 10.2% that raises a problem or a warning — 7.8 optimistic papers for every critical one. So the concerns below have to be counted directly — reading the most common topics would bury them.
concern
papers · India
share
raised as a problem
worldwide
Privacy & surveillancee.g. “Security and Privacy in Fog Computing: Challenges”
351
5.34%
67 (19.1%)
1,931 · 2.59%
Energy & datacenter footprinte.g. “Energy efficiency in cloud computing data centers: a survey on software technologies”
Carbon & emissions of computee.g. “Towards carbon-aware AI: a systematic prisma review and taxonomy of green architectures, hardware life-cycle, and energy”
15
0.23%
3 (20.0%)
59 · 0.08%
Hardware, e-waste & supply chaine.g. “GreenLoop: A Cloud Driven Framework for Sustainable Waste Management System”
4
0.06%
0 (0.0%)
23 · 0.03%
Bias & fairnesse.g. “Maya-Viveka: Viveka-Gated Synaptic Discrimination for Class-Incremental Learning in Affective Spiking Neural Networks”
4
0.06%
0 (0.0%)
69 · 0.09%
Water usee.g. “On-chip waste heat-driven absorption cooling system for sustainable data center environment: simulation”
3
0.05%
0 (0.0%)
122 · 0.16%
Labour & data worke.g. “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work”
3
0.05%
2 (66.7%)
22 · 0.03%
Concentration of compute powere.g. “5G and Beyond”
1
0.02%
1 (100.0%)
27 · 0.04%
Who files AI patents in India
Records 5,180 AI‑related patent filings from 5,860 organisations between 2016 and 2025, with TCS, Wipro, and Robert Bosch as top filers.
5,180 filings 2016–20255,860 assigneespeak 842 in 2021
Filing momentum
patents published / year
20162025
Who files the most
TCS2,236
Wipro405
Robert Bosch215
Jio Platforms163
HCL Technologies133
Infosys113
Ericsson Telefon AB L M76
L&T48
Prism
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