Home to more than 6,500 startups, Delhi placed 24th in the Global Startup Ecosystem’s 2024 report of the world’s top 40 locations, sandwiched between other Indian hotspots for early-stage companies, Bangalore and Mumbai. The city is known for producing the highest number of publicly traded brands as well as a large portion of the country’s billion-dollar unicorns.
The following Delhi-based startups add to India’s developing reputation as a place for technology innovation.
Top Startup Companies in Delhi
- MobiKwik
- BharatPe
- Tata 1mg
- Battery Smart
- Zepto
- Spinny
- Paytm
- Innovaccer
- Delhivery
- Zomato
18 Top Startup Companies in Delhi
Zepto is India’s fastest-growing e-grocery company. Founded in 2021 by two Stanford dropout students, the startup delivers over 5,000 products in 10 minutes or less, including everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to daily cooking essentials, dairy and health-and-hygiene products, across 10 major cities, like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Snapdeal is an e-commerce startup that offers a wide range of products, including electronics, beauty, fashion and home goods. With more than 200 million app downloads and 25 million monthly visitors, the platform focuses on providing affordable products through a marketplace model, connecting buyers with sellers and offering both branded and unbranded items.
Shiprocket helps online retailers ship their products, communicate with customers and meet their marketing and fulfillment needs through its AI-driven, end-to-end enablement platform. More than 250,000 merchants rely on the New Delhi-based startup, completing over 200 million transactions per year. Shiprocket has more than 45 warehouses across the country.
boAt is a lifestyle brand for electronic wearables, and one of India’s top sellers of audio devices. Known for its stylish, high-quality headphones, earbuds and speakers, the unicorn-status startup also offers various other gadgets, like power banks, cables and hair trimmers, as well as tech accessories, like smartwatches.
MobiKwik is a fintech startup that evolved from a digital wallet to a platform offering diverse financial services like credit, insurance and gold loans. Founded in 2009, the company enables its 156 million users to send and receive money, pay bills and shop online. Headquartered in Gurgaon, MobiKwik has several corporate offices and customer care services in Delhi.
Paytm is one of India’s largest fintech platforms, offering a wide range of services such as mobile payments, money transfers, bill payments and financial products like loans, insurance and investment services. Founded in 2014, the startup has expanded its portfolio to include savings accounts, micro-loans and buy now, pay later financing, in partnership with banks and other financial institutions. With over 20,000 employees across the country, Paytm also provides services like flight booking and ticketing.
Spinny is a platform that allows users to buy and sell used cars. Founded in 2015, the startup offers a selection of over 5,000 thoroughly inspected cars with a 200-point quality check, and a five-day money-back guarantee. Customers are also able to book a test drive online and try out second-hand cars at their nearest local hub.
Honasa is a digital-first house of brands known for creating holistic beauty and personal care products. Launching viral skincare brands like Mamaearth, The Derma Co. and Aqualogica, the Gurgaon-based startup caters to a Millennial-age audience with direct-to-consumer marketing and e-commerce fulfillment across 500 cities in India.
BluSmart is India’s first all-electric ride-hailing platform. With over 1.47 million riders and 10,000 drivers to date, the startup enables users to request and schedule rides through an app without having to deal with any cancellations, surge pricing or even carbon emissions. Its service is available in New Delhi-NCR and Bangalore.
Battery Smart is building India’s largest network of battery swapping stations for electric two and three-wheeler vehicles. Founded in 2019, the Delhi-based startup aims to accelerate EV adoption by delivering pay-per-use battery exchanges in under two minutes and eliminating range anxiety with frequent service hubs. To date, the company has swapped more than 25 million batteries.
Delhivery is a fully integrated logistics provider and supply chain startup that offers end-to-end solutions. When partnering with clients, it handles transportation, warehousing and last-mile delivery, with specialized services like express delivery and cross-border shipments. Founded in 2011, Delhivery’s workforce of more than 20,000 employees have completed three billion deliveries to date across its nation-wide network.
Park+ is a mobile app-based platform that allows users to book a parking spot in advance. Founded in 2019, the startup lets users look for parking availability in real time, track challans, recharge FASTags, pay bills and connect to car cleaning and maintenance services. To date, Park+ has acquired over 10 million users and mapped out more than 100,000 parking areas.
Innovaccer is a global healthtech startup with a data platform that enables medical providers to unify patient data across various systems. Deployed in over 1,600 hospitals and clinics, the AI-driven, cloud-based CRM tool has helped healthcare providers serve 54 million patients, generate over $1 billion in savings and earn top rankings in data and analytics by KLAS Research.
Zomato is a food delivery company and restaurant aggregator that serves dozens of cities throughout India. Launched in 2010, its platform allows customers to search for local restaurants, read and write reviews, order food, book a table and make payments while out to eat. Zomato also serves as a marketing tool for restaurants, enabling them to engage with customers and provide reliable last-mile delivery service.
Tata 1MG is an online pharmacy making healthcare more accessible through its digital platform, where customers can order medicine, vitamins and nutrition supplements delivered to their door. It also provides telemedicine consultations and at-home lab services that allow patients to review their results online after a screening. The Gurgaon-based company has labs, pharmacies, offices and medical centers located throughout Delhi.
Headquartered in Delhi, GlobalBees specializes in acquiring and scaling digital-first, direct-to-consumer brands. Founded in 2021, the company partners with entrepreneurs across a multitude of sectors — including fast-moving consumer goods, home and living, sports, fitness and fashion — to provide funding, operational support and marketing resources to help grow businesses in the digital space. GlobalBees achieved unicorn status in the first eight months of operation.
EaseMyTrip is an online travel agency that offers a wide range of services including flight bookings, hotel reservations, holiday packages and bus and train ticketing. Headquartered in New Delhi, the platform aims to provide its 25 million users with a seamless and cost-effective travel booking experience, connecting to 400 international and domestic airlines, nearly one million hotels and thousands of cab and bus operators to choose from through its website and mobile app.
BharatPe is a unicorn-status fintech startup that helps small-and-medium-sized businesses accept digital payments and access financing solutions through a digital payment platform. It provides merchants with QR codes and point-of-service machines that accept customer payments from multiple apps, like Google Pay and Paytm, and also offers loans, investment and insurance products.
