75 Top Indian Publishing Companies and Startups of 2021

July 2, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Indian based Publishing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Publishing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top Indian Publishing Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

YourStory

YourStory

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YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.

Pratilipi

Pratilipi

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Pratilipi is a language storytelling platform that brings readers, writers, and their stories together.

Pratilipi

Hungama

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Hungama Digital Media Entertainment. is the largest aggregator, developer, publisher and distributor of Bollywood and South-Asian content.

Pratilipi

Pencil

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Pencil is a content publishing platform that enables writers to publish their work for free.

Pratilipi

ScoopWhoop

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ScoopWhoop is an internet media company that creates and curates India-specific stories for a wider audience.

Pratilipi

Quintype Technologies Pvt Ltd

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API Driven CMS that allows publishers and content creators to create rich content, distribute across platforms, and enable monetization.

Pratilipi

ThePrint

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ThePrint operates as a news, analysis, opinion, and knowledge venture.

Pratilipi

Tripoto Travel Private Limited

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India’s largest Travel Community and marketplace platform

Pratilipi

WION

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WION is a global English news channel from South Asia.

Pratilipi

Voiro

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Voiro is the first all-in-one revenue management suite exclusively for ad-led digital publishers across media.

Pratilipi

Games2win Media

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Games2win Media is a global publisher of casual mobile games.

Pratilipi

Live Mint

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Live Mint is a newspaper in of Hindustan Time

Pratilipi

New Emerging World of Journalism

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New Emerging World of Journalism is a platform for youngsters who are passionate about creative storytelling, video production.

Pratilipi

S.Chand & Company

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S Chand And Company Limited operates as an education content company in India.

Pratilipi

Beaconstac

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Beaconstac is an end-to-end beacon solution : Beacon hardware and platform seamlessly rolled into one

Pratilipi

People Matters

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People Matters is Asia’s largest and leading community platform for talent professionals in the arena of people and work.

Pratilipi

Notion Press

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Notion Press eBook, print book and book reviews free self publishing platform – Also, check the Notion Press Reviews at notionpress.com

Pratilipi

Storymirror

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Online Portal for reading and sharing stories, poems, quotes and Arts

Pratilipi

The Economic Times

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The Economic Times is a daily newspaper offering news about politics, economy, markets, and technology.

Pratilipi

Agrahyah Technologies

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Agrahyah Technologies specializes in the fields of language technologies, content marketing, podcast, and audio on demand.

Pratilipi

Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd

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Bennett Coleman offers newspapers, magazines, internet, and electronic commerce information publication services.

Pratilipi

WittyFeed

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Discover latest news from all around the world, trending stories on Lifestyle, Technology, Humor, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Food etc

Pratilipi

At Social

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At Social is organising the social media industry.

Pratilipi

Funizen

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Funizen is the leading massively multiplayer online game publisher in India.

Pratilipi

Chaaipani Media

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Chaaipani is a new-age media platform to discover, share, and positively act on inspiring stories of people around us.

Pratilipi

Matrubharti

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Matrubharti is a community of content creators in vernacular languages, people create quotes, write stories, post videos here.

Pratilipi

Juggernaut

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Juggernaut is a publishing company

Pratilipi

Newsdash

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Bringing Indian Newspapers to mobile

Pratilipi

Kahaniya

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An online storytelling platform in regional languages.

Pratilipi

GAMOOZ

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GAMOOZ – Augmented Reality Platform for adding fun and Interactivity to Print Books

Pratilipi

TechGraph

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Covering latest news, analysis, and opinions on Technology, Startups, Business and on Crypto’s from India and World.

Pratilipi

Woodpie

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Woodpie is a social commerce platform that puts the right book in the right hand, at the right time.

Pratilipi

Flixy Games

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Flixy understand the needs of our partner game studios and publish their games in a culturally.

Pratilipi

Inc42

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Inc42 is one of the leading tech media publications of India.

Pratilipi

Vigyaa

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Vigyaa creates, consumes, and shares a variety of content it shows anchor texts to relevant information that appear immediately.

Pratilipi

Digit

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Digit is the largest online personal technology community in India.

Pratilipi

Fossbytes

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Fossbytes is one of the fastest growing tech media startups of India.

Pratilipi

India Today Group

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India Today Group is a Noida-based diversified media group.

Pratilipi

Outlook India

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Outlook India is a weekly English news magazine, which features contents from politics to cinema stories, published in India.

Pratilipi

Interaction One

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Interaction One is a digital publishing startup.

Pratilipi

HT Media

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HT Media is an Indian mass media company.

Pratilipi

Hindustan Times

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Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by Rajya Sabha M.P. and Shobhana Bhartia.

Pratilipi

Hindustan Media Venture

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HMVL specializes in the printing and publication of newspapers and periodicals.

Pratilipi

Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd

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Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd fills the needs of pharmaceutical, publishing and intellectual property businesses.

Pratilipi

Business standard.com

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Business standard.com is the online website of Business Standard, a daily business newspaper that provides information on many categories.

Pratilipi

Indian Express Group

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Indian Express Limited is an Indian news media publishing company.

Pratilipi

Knoldus Inc.

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Knoldus modernize digital systems by leveraging Functional Programming (Scala, Rust, Java) & Fast Data (Spark, Flink) ecosystems.

Pratilipi

Fibre2fashion

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Fibre2fashion is a B2B portal based in India dedicated to the textile, garment, and fashion industries.

Pratilipi

Mango Games

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Mango Games is an India-based mobile games company that makes casual games for audiences in India, south Asia, and South-Asian diaspora in

Pratilipi

Onionfans PTE.LTD

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A tech media and venture capital management organization connecting China and India

Pratilipi

Wimoxez

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Wimoxez – Data, Insights and Intelligence media platform to inspect how technology and business will change existence in the future.

Pratilipi

Frontline

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Frontline offers in-depth reporting and analysis of issues and events at the regional, national, and international levels.

Pratilipi

Blue Rose Publishers

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Blue Rose Publishers is a Self-Publishing Company, they provide services like book publishing, ebook publishing, printing.

Pratilipi

Mosaic Media Ventures

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Mosaic Media Ventures is a digital products company operates tech news and corporate deals databases businesses.

Pratilipi

Analytics Insight

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Media, branding and technology platform with a unique focus on insights, trends, and opinion from the world of data-driven technologies.

Pratilipi

Live Law

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Live Law is a comprehensive Legal News Portal covering Indian Courts, Lawyers, Law Firms, Law Schools and Legal Developments In India.

Pratilipi

The Hindu

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The Hindu, a national newspaper of India, was started in 1878 and caters to a readership of about 22.58 hundred thousand across India.

Pratilipi

Yearbook canvas

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Yearbook Canvas is India’s no. 1 yearbook company and the only company in Asia to have a mobile application exclusively for yearbooks

Pratilipi

Tealfeed

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Tealfeed is a knowledge-sharing platform that keeps people’s feed informative and empowers creators.

Pratilipi

Pixpa

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All-in-one website builder for creators and small businesess

Pratilipi

exchange4media

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exchange4media is a publishing platform that provides information of broadcasting, media, advertising, and marketing domain industries.

Pratilipi

KIS Group

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KIS Group is a members-only website that offers access to expert-driven videos about fashion, culinary arts, life skills, and more.

Pratilipi

Vikatan

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Vikatan is a media production company providing magazines, enlightening books, television content, and a website.

Pratilipi

Fork Media

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Fork Media is an India-based company that leverages online, mobile, and video platforms to create solutions for advertisers and publishers.

Pratilipi

Expanrr

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Expanrr is a digital media platform focused on improving entrepreneurs’ lives by educating and motivating them.

Pratilipi

Shortpedia

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Shortpedia is a short news app that aggregates latest news and summarizes in less than 70 words and update you with latest news in seconds.

Pratilipi

Navneet Education Ltd

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Navneet Education Ltd publishes educational and general content in print and digital medium, and makes stationery products.

Pratilipi

YoungCurrent

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YoungCurrent is a Child-safe News Reader

Pratilipi

Wiley India

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Wiley, a global company, helps people and organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed.

Pratilipi

Dainik Bhaskar Group

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Dainik Bhaskar Group is an Indian print media company that brings breaking news in Hindi on national, international, sports, and more.

Pratilipi

TNQ Technologies

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TNQ Technologies is a Chennai-based publishing technology and services company.

Pratilipi

Dalal Street Investment Journal

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Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ) is the oldest and the most trusted magazine when it comes to equity investments.

Pratilipi

Raykor Technologies

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Raykor Technologies is developing software products for life sciences, media & publishing, content, and manufacturing industries.

Pratilipi

Microbioz-India

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Microbioz India is India’s most popular magazine of Laboratory Equipments.

Pratilipi

IOSRD

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