The startup picture in Patna

Venture backing is scarce relative to company activity. Only 50 tracked companies have ever raised outside money; the registry identifies 36 with funding and 9 at seed stage. Patna can form businesses, but its capital ladder is short.

Startups in Patna - Funding, Founders & Investors

Everything startup in one place: who's building, how the landscape clusters, the people and investors behind it, and whether the capital is real.

DeHaat

AI-enabled supply chain for farming sector

est. 2012 · 1,660 staff · raised outside money

Amrendra Singh — Co-Founder & Director · Bachelor of Engineering NIT Jamshedpur

Abhishek Dokania — Co-Founder & SVP

JhaJi Store

JhaJi Store: Authentic Homemade Pickles from Mithilanchal in Bihar

est. 2020 · 59 staff · raised outside money

Aishwarya Chaturvedi — Co-Founder · B.Tech, Production and Industrial Engineering IIT Delhi

Uma Jha — Co-Founder & Co-Owner

Hanuman

Aggregator for healthcare services at doorstep

est. 2020 · 43 staff · raised outside money

Niraj Jha — Founder & CEO

Agrix

Agrix: Smart and Affordable Farming Ecosystem for Marginal Farmers

est. 2019 · 24 staff · raised outside money

Nilay Pandey — Co-Founder & CEO · NIT Rourkela

Vivek Kumar — Co-Founder & Director

Cymatic

Personalized e-learning with quality tutor and adaptive learning platform

est. 2017 · 22 staff · raised outside money

Kaushik Sharaf — Founder & CEO

RodBez

RodBez - One Way Taxi, Taxipool & Carpool Platform in Bihar

est. 2022 · 15 staff · raised outside money

Dilkhush Kumar — Co-Founder & CEO · - Unknown

DENTRA

AI-powered 3D dental solutions for low-to-middle-income countries

est. 2021 · 4 staff · raised outside money

Dilip Sharma — Co-Founder

Satwik Priyadarshi — CEO & Co-Founder

FreshSharp

Fresh meat delivery and ready-to-cook products for Bihar

est. 2019 · 3 staff · raised outside money

Majaz Hassan — Founder & CEO

GreenSupply

Platform offering multi-category tech-based services to farmers

est. 2020 · 3 staff · raised outside money

Ritesh Singh — Co-Founder & COO

Chhotu Kumar — Co-Founder

BlackTree

Internet first brand offering apparel wear for men and women

est. 2018 · 2 staff · raised outside money

Kundan Kumar — Founder & CEO

Saija

Microfinance institution providing loans to women in rural India.

est. 2007 · 2 staff · raised outside money

Rashmi Sinha — Co-Founder

AA Health

Online platform offering multiple healthcare services

est. 2022 · raised outside money

Amjad Ali — Founder & CEO · Doctor of Medicine Unknown

ACFL

Non-banking financial company specializing in microfinance services

est. 2015 · raised outside money

Ravindra Kishore Sinha — Founder

Adzenia

Adzenia - Delightful Fashion Shopping Experience for Women

est. 2018 · raised outside money

Mukesh Yadav — Founder & Managing Director · MBA Pup

AR Village

AR-VR solutions in education, entertainment, furniture, real estate, automobile, and gaming

est. 2020 · raised outside money

Nitin Tiwary — Co-Founder & CEO

Sandeep Kumar — Co-Founder

Atlamedico Techsolutions

AtlaMedico TechSolutions: Remote medicare services for critical patients and personal health monitoring

est. 2017 · raised outside money

Atul Kumar — Co-Founder

Saraswati Kumari — Co-Founder

Baniya Bhaaai

B2B e distributor platform offering multicategory products

est. 2019 · raised outside money

Augustine Paul — Co-Founder

Akash Raj — Co-Founder

Blue Medix Pharmacy

Online app for the purchase of different medical prescribed drugs

est. 2017 · raised outside money

Sanjay Choudhary — Co-Founder

Shahid Maswood — Head of Human Resources · Bachelor of Science Ranchi University

Book My Meal

Mobile-first restaurant offering on-demand meals

est. 2016 · raised outside money

Aditya Chandra — CEO

Charavidhi

B2B Marketplace for livestock trading

est. 2021 · raised outside money

Sanu Kumar — Co-Founder

Rupesh Kumar — Co-Founder

Clinisio

AI-powered clinical decision support systems for healthcare professionals

est. 2023 · raised outside money

Mrinmoy Das — Co-Founder

Cognosmed

Provider of food & agricultural product, herbal, and other testing services

est. 2018 · raised outside money

Ajay Kumar — Founder & CEO · MSc Bundelkhand University

Collobe

Cloud-based team collaboration and productivity tool

est. 2016 · raised outside money

Bhaskar Thakur — Co-Founder & CEO

Shashwat Gautam — Co-Founder & COO

Coworking Studio

Coworking studio

est. 2018 · raised outside money

Prakhyat Kashyap — Co-Founder

cluster · 137 companies

Consumer

97 founded since 2018 · 5 funded

Sub-themes

local services · 31professional consumer services · 20road transport tech · 14online travel · 14logistics tech · 12fashion tech · 12

e.g. RailRestro, UrbanKare, RodBez

cluster · 119 companies

Business Services

59 founded since 2018 · 1 funded

Sub-themes

it services · 34marketing services · 27facility management services · 10hr services · 10event management services · 5it resellers · 5

e.g. Vision Technocrates, Mmaeon Management, Yescom India softech Pvt Ltd

cluster · 113 companies

Education

37 founded since 2018

Sub-themes

k-12 schools · 41higher education institutions · 20academic tutoring · 12continuing education centres · 10k-12 edtech · 10test preparation centres · 9

e.g. Patna University, Mentors Eduserv, Fantastiqo

cluster · 91 companies

Edtech

63 founded since 2018 · 3 funded

Sub-themes

k-12 edtech · 41test preparation tech · 26continued learning · 21higher education tech · 15academic tutoring · 11enterprise resource planning · 10

e.g. Cymatic, Notes Dunia, Gungun Erp Solution

cluster · 91 companies

Healthcare

33 founded since 2018 · 4 funded

Sub-themes

hospitals · 24clinics · 11traditional pharmaceuticals · 6alternative medicine products · 5rehabilitation and long-term care · 5services for healthcare providers · 4

e.g. Ruban Patliputra Hospital, Shrinivas (Gujarat) Laboratories, Ford Hospital

cluster · 82 companies

Real Estate And Construction

35 founded since 2018 · 2 funded

Sub-themes

real estate & infrastructure developers · 28construction contractors · 11facility management services · 10interior designers · 8architects · 7building materials · 6

e.g. Kalyanpur Cements, Vastu VIhar, Vision Technocrates

cluster · 71 companies

Retail

58 founded since 2018 · 5 funded

Sub-themes

horizontal e-commerce · 16b2b e-commerce · 12fashion tech · 12consumer electronics e-commerce · 5beauty tech · 4apparel brands · 3

e.g. Aditya Vision, Aditya Consumer Marketing, DleafTech

cluster · 70 companies

Enterprise Applications

45 founded since 2018 · 2 funded

Sub-themes

marketingtech · 16enterprise resource planning · 14hrtech · 12k-12 edtech · 10legal tech · 4sales force automation · 4

e.g. Job At World, Technix India, ESYTHINK

cluster · 63 companies

Food And Agriculture Tech

49 founded since 2018 · 9 funded

Sub-themes

online grocery · 28crop tech · 22food tech · 17livestock tech · 7online travel · 5b2b e-commerce · 3

e.g. DeHaat, RailRestro, Agrix

cluster · 51 companies

Food And Agriculture

30 founded since 2018 · 5 funded

Sub-themes

food & beverage products · 26food processing · 7food service chains · 5food distributors · 4services for crop farming · 3crop inputs · 2

e.g. Anuj Dairy, JhaJi Store, Amrapali Foods

Founder & Background	Role	Company
Amrendra Singh Ex-Founder Agri Gow. NIT Jamshedpur BE 2011	Co-Founder & Director	DeHaat
Abhishek Dokania Indian Institute of Planning and Management MBA 2009	Co-Founder & SVP	DeHaat
Shashank Kumar Ex-Founder Farms and Farmers, Beacon Advisory Services. IIT Delhi BTech 2008	Co-Founder & CEO	DeHaat
Shyam Singh Ex-Farms n Farmers Foundation, FSG, Reliance. IIT Kharagpur BTech 2008, IIM Ahmedabad PGDM 2011	Co-Founder	DeHaat
Aishwarya Chaturvedi Co-Founder-JhaJi Store,Mensch Ventures \| Ex-Co-Founder-Sookshm,SkillWill \| IIT Delhi BTech 2013	Co-Founder	JhaJi Store
Uma Jha Co-Founder-JhaJi Store	Co-Founder & Co-Owner	JhaJi Store
Kalpana Jha Co-Founder-JhaJi Store \| Lalit Narayan Mithila University	Co-Founder & Co-Owner	JhaJi Store
Niraj Jha Hanuman, ex-Glocal Healthcare, ex-Glocal Healthcare Systems, BITS Pilani with Christian Medical College Vellore, 2015	Founder & CEO	Hanuman
Nilay Pandey National Institute of Technology Rourkela M.Tech 2014, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi PhD	Co-Founder & CEO	Agrix
Vivek Kumar Ex-Co-Founder KisaanHeet, Matisoft Cyber Security Labs. West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata BTech 2017	Co-Founder & Director	Agrix
Sandeep Joshi Uttar Pradesh Technical University BTech 2006, BITS Pilani ME 2009, IIT Delhi PhD 2019	Co-Founder	Agrix
Saurav Singh Agrix, ex-Rozgar Com, ex-Kisaanheet, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, 2017	Co-Founder & COO	Agrix
Kaushik Sharaf Birla Institute of Technology BE 2015	Founder & CEO	Cymatic
Dilkhush Kumar Ex-AryaGo Transpotech India	Co-Founder & CEO	RodBez
Dilip Sharma Ex-Tata Motors, TAFE. AVIT BE 2012	Co-Founder	DENTRA
Satwik Priyadarshi Ex-Co-Founder FormFab Innovations, IIIT DM Jabalpur, Govt. of India. Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation - University BE 2012	CEO & Co-Founder	DENTRA
Majaz Hassan Bihar Agriculture University 2021	Founder & CEO	FreshSharp
Chhotu Kumar Shaheed Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus, Ferozepur BTech 2018	Co-Founder	GreenSupply
Ayush Verma Ex-Founder Tecentriz, Co-Founder Waplocal. Marwari College, Bhagalpur BCA 2020, CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY MCA	Co-Founder & CTO	GreenSupply
Rajesh Kumar Ex- Co-Founder- TheTweaks. NIT Raipur BTech 2018	Co-Founder & CEO	GreenSupply

backgrounds shown where available

227 investors are on record backing Patna companies. The most committed:

Most active — backed 2+ companies

BIA Incubator

3IIMCIP

3Incubation Centre IIT Patna

3FreeFlow

2Trifecta Capital

2Vineeta Singh

2Karekeba Ventures

2Sanjeev Kumar

2Samir Kumar

2Vinod Kumar

2Sameer Anjaria

2Deepak Mehta

Institutional

BIA Incubator · accelerator / incubatorIIMCIP · accelerator / incubatorOmnivore · VC fundAgFunder · VC fundPeak XV Partners · VC fundSofina · VC fundProsus · VC fundRTP Global · VC fundNaspers · VC fundpi Ventures · VC fundE-Cubed Ventures · VC fundUnreasonable · VC fundTata Social Enterprise Challenge Incubation · accelerator / incubatorThapar Vision · VC fund+ 15 more

Private & corporate backers

Incubation Centre IIT PatnaFreeFlowTrifecta CapitalVineeta SinghKarekeba VenturesSanjeev KumarSamir KumarVinod KumarSameer AnjariaDeepak Mehta+ 188 more

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Funded startups — peer cities

Bhubaneswar

139

Lucknow

111

Guwahati

50Patna

21Ranchi

Companies that have raised

Company	Industry	Rounds	Latest Round	Founded
Hanuman	hospital & health care	2	2021-11	2020
Repair My Mobile	marketing	2	2019-12	2014
Coworking Studio	real estate	0	—	2018
Cymatic	e-learning	0	—	2017
Dadiji Snacks	food production	1	—	2020
AA Health	information services (b2c)	0	—	2022
ACFL	financial services	0	—	2015
Adzenia	it services	0	2023-01	2018
DeHaat	internet	1	2025-04	2012
Agrix	farming	5	2023-06	2019
AR Village	e-learning	0	—	2020
Atlamedico Techsolutions	monitoring equipment	0	—	2017
Baniya Bhaaai	retail	0	—	2019
Blue Medix Pharmacy	pharmaceuticals	0	2025-01	2017
Book My Meal	food & beverages	0	—	2016
Better World Foundation	research	0	2023-11	2016
Charavidhi	agriculture	0	—	2021
Clinisio	hospital & health care	0	—	2023
Cognosmed	healthcare & lifesciences	0	—	2018
Collobe	computer software	0	—	2016
DENTRA	consumer services	0	—	2021
Dressing Xpress	textiles	0	—	2019
FarmsnFarmers	farming	0	—	2010
Flash E-Bike Taxi	transportation/trucking/railroad	0	—	2020
FreshSharp	food production	1	2022-09	2019

round amounts sparse for tier-3 cities — counts shown, dollar totals withheld

Company	Industry	Founded	Employees
1StopMandi	food & beverages	2025	—
Aankhen News 24	online media	2025	—
Akshat Green	renewables & environment	2025	—
BabyAura	hospital & health care	2025	—
Bihar Herald	newspapers	2025	—
Bullz Ad	marketing and advertising	2025	—
DelyFresh	veterinary	2025	—
Dharmartha	financial services	2025	—
Homeasy	consumer electronics	2025	—
Homepathy	health, wellness and fitness	2025	—
Humantics	hospital & health care	2025	—
LandArchi	architecture & planning	2025	—
Learn Gyanix	e-learning	2025	—
Next Gen Software Hub	e-learning	2025	—
Nicher Industrial Tech Park	construction	2025	—
NSG Organic	food & beverages	2025	—
Nutri Tribe	food production	2025	—
OFFBEAT	apparel & fashion	2025	—
Omrasafoundation	computer software	2025	—
Polaris Financial Services	financial services	2025	—

The startup picture in Patna

DeHaat

JhaJi Store

Hanuman

Agrix

Cymatic

RodBez

DENTRA

FreshSharp

GreenSupply

BlackTree

Saija

AA Health

ACFL

Adzenia

AR Village

Atlamedico Techsolutions

Baniya Bhaaai

Blue Medix Pharmacy

Book My Meal

Charavidhi

Clinisio

Cognosmed

Collobe

Coworking Studio

Consumer

Business Services

Education

Edtech

Healthcare

Real Estate And Construction

Retail

Enterprise Applications

Food And Agriculture Tech

Food And Agriculture

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