LinkedIn’s 2025 Top Startups List Reveals D2C Brands And Quick-Commerce Platforms Dominate Bengaluru’s Startup Ecosystem

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, has unveiled the 2025 Top Startups list for Bengaluru– an annual ranking of the emerging companies where careers can thrive. The list, based on exclusive LinkedIn data on employee growth, engagement interest, job interest, and attraction of top talent, surfaces insights that can help local job seekers identify opportunities in the city.

 

Quick-commerce unicorn Zepto (#1), which also leads the 2025 Top Startups India list, leads the Bengaluru list as well. It is followed by security compliance automation platform Sprinto (#2), and city’s own 10-minute food delivery service Swish (#3). Despite operating in different categories, all three are scaling rapidly and expanding into new markets, signalling that operational excellence, technology depth, and consumer-centric innovation are the defining advantages of Bengaluru’s top-performing startups.

 

The ‘quick economy’ continues to be strongly represented in the list with Zepto (#1) and Swish (#3) ranked amongst the top 3. The city’s enterprise tech backbone remains strong, led by innovators such as Lucidity (#5), which is revolutionizing cloud storage and BiteSpeed (#10) providing AI-powered marketing solutions. Consumer brands are also thriving, from jewellery maker GIVA (#8) and hair care brand Traya (#9) showcasing the city's diverse entrepreneurial landscape.

 

Meanwhile, fintech startups CRED (#4) and Jupiter (#7) reflect India’s growing appetite for smarter money management efficiently. Three of the top five companies also feature in India’s overall Top Startups list, reaffirming Bengaluru’s continued dominance as the country’s startup capital. Yet, with half the companies being new entrants, the ecosystem is clearly evolving, marked by fresh ideas and widening opportunity.

 

Commenting on this year’s list, Nirajita Banerjee, LinkedIn Career Expert and Sr. Managing Editor, LinkedIn India News, said, “Bengaluru's startup ecosystem continues to set the pace for India's innovation economy, with deep strengths across both consumer technology and enterprise solutions. The city’s mix of enterprise tech, fintech, and digital-first consumer brands shows an ecosystem that’s both maturing and diversifying. For professionals, the opportunity lies in this intersection, where technology meets creativity, and where new models are being built to serve a fast-changing India.”

 

Here’s the full list of 2025 LinkedIn Top Startups in Delhi:

 

1. Zepto

2. Sprinto

3. Swish

4. CRED

5. Lucidity

6. Pocket FM

7. Jupiter

8. Giva

9. Traya

10.  BiteSpeed

 

Here are some tips from Nirajita Banerjee on how to land a job at a LinkedIn Top Startup:

 

• Track where startups are scaling, not just who is hiring: 14 newcomers moved from niche to national in under two years. You won’t see that in job boards. Watch funding, product launches and market expansion to spot momentum early.

• Evaluate founders like you would evaluate future managers: In high-growth startups, leadership dictates your growth more than title. Use LinkedIn to see how founders build teams, communicate and retain talent. Trust and clarity matter more than hype.

• Look for business models with discipline, not just innovation:  This year’s top startups win by pairing innovation with execution. Quick commerce enters new categories, AI builds infrastructure, fintech solves depth. Go where ambition meets operational rigour.

• Chase sectors AND problems worth solving: This year’s top startups solve urgency, complexity or trust. Tools change, but problem-solving is the real moat. If you understand the problem a company is obsessed with, you’ll always stay relevant.

 

You can visit the LinkedIn Bangalore 2025 Top Startups list here.

Methodology
LinkedIn measures startups based on four pillars: employment growth, engagement, job interest and attraction of top talent. Employment growth is measured as percentage headcount increase in the city over methodology time frame, which must be a minimum of 510%. Engagement looks at non-employee views and follows of the company’s LinkedIn page among members in the city, as well as how many non-employees are viewing employees at that startup. Job interest counts the rate at which people are viewing and applying to jobs at the company in the city, including both paid and unpaid postings. Attraction of top talent measures how many employees in the city the startup has recruited away from any global LinkedIn Top Company, as a percentage of the startup’s total workforce. Data is normalised across all eligible startups. The methodology time frame is July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

 

To be eligible, companies must be fully independent, privately held, have 30 or more full-time employees in the city, be 7 years old or younger and be headquartered in the country on whose list they appear. We exclude all staffing firms, think tanks, venture capital firms, law firms, management and IT consulting firms, nonprofits and philanthropy, accelerators and government-owned entities. Startups who have laid off 20% or more of their workforce based on corporate announcements or public, reliable sources between July 1, 2024 and the list launch, are not eligible. These decisions are made by the LinkedIn News team based on company statements and/or reputable news outlets.

 

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