BHASKAR Platform Enhances Collaboration Across India’s Startup Ecosystem
Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry (BHASKAR) is a bold effort by the Government of India to promote organized collaboration and hassle-free knowledge sharing across the nation’s burgeoning startup community. Serves as an inclusive digital registry, BHASKAR is seen to be an integrated platform that gets organized startups, entrepreneurs, investors, incubators, accelerators, research institutions, and government agencies involved to promote collaborative innovation and scalable partnerships.
As of 30th June 2025, 1,97,932 entities have been registered under the ‘Startup’ category on the BHASKAR platform. This is indicative of the large-scale adoption and increasing faith in India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. State and Union Territory-wise, detailed data of registered entities has been given in Annexure-I, indicating regional participation and geographic dispersal of startups, a key input for evidence-based policy-making and focused intervention.
Currently, BHASKAR is in its pilot phase, during which a suite of key features and functionalities is being actively tested and refined. These features include:
- Peer-to-peer modules for interaction, allowing startups to interact with other entrepreneurs for validation of their ideas, mentorship, or strategic alliances.
- Dynamic collaboration platforms, promoting real-time interaction among startups and other ecosystem players like incubators, accelerators, mentors, and corporates.
- Exclusive personalized identities for every registered category of stakeholders, which help streamline verification processes and grant smooth access to government schemes and finance.
- Microsite integration, enabling stakeholders to view and apply relevant Startup India schemes in an efficient manner and monitor their applications, benefits, and compliance.
The platform aims to provide a decentralized, inclusive, and interoperable knowledge base that enhances regional innovation clusters and bridging gaps between early-stage startups and established industry players. In doing this, BHASKAR is anticipated to minimize information asymmetry, enhance visibility of startups across sectors, as well as facilitate better access to resources and market opportunities.
In order to ensure that the platform is aligned with the requirements of its target users, the Government is actively engaged in outreach and awareness programs in different States and Union Territories. These efforts are focused on taking on-ground input, measuring user experience, and refining platform design so that it responds to changing expectations of the startup ecosystem — particularly the ones from Tier II and Tier III cities, as well as micro and small businesses that tend to struggle in reaching centralized services.
These outreach measures include:
- Direct engagement with State Startup Nodal Agencies, who serve as primary points of contact for local startup ecosystems and assist in customizing the platform experience for regional stakeholders.
- Workshop participation, hackathons, and innovation summits, where BHASKAR is presented as a core facilitator for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Orientation sessions at educational institutions, such as IITs, IIMs, and engineering colleges, where student-driven innovations are growing and numerous early-stage businesses are being incubated.
- Social media campaigns on platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter (X), YouTube, and Instagram, with messaging customized to create awareness among young entrepreneurs, women founders, and domain-specific innovators.
- Partnerships with startup accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces, who serve as grassroots-level partners for propagating platform benefits and registration.
The pilot phase for BHASKAR also places considerable importance on ensuring data interoperability, as BHASKAR will provide the capability to integrate with other national digital initiatives like the National Single Window System (NSWS), Startup India Portal, Udyam Registration and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) portals to form a digital foundation. A unified digital foundation will eliminate the duplication of data entry for startups, simplify access to incentives, mentorship opportunities, market linkages and global outreach programs.
In the long run, BHASKAR expects to become a single repository for real time, verified, and structured information on India’s rich startup ecosystem. Doing so will support startups on their journeys of growth, as well as enable policymakers, research and investors to make more informed data driven decisions, information resource allocation decisions, and identify emerging trends across agritech, healthtech, deeptech, fintech, sustainability, and digital public infrastructure sectors.
With the phased launch coming in the next few months, the Government remains steadfast in transforming BHASKAR through co-creation with the ecosystem — to make it a genuinely inclusive, dynamic, and empowering force for India’s vision for a global startup destination.
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