India Company & Owner Directory
Company register search for 2.6M+ India companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
India company register data starts with the Register of Members required under Section 88 of the Companies Act 2013, held by each company rather than published centrally — the government's MCA21 portal shows only master data, not shareholding detail. Beneficial ownership is tracked separately as the Significant Beneficial Owner (SBO) regime under Section 90, at a 10% ownership, voting, or profit-sharing threshold, lowered from an earlier 25%. It is filed as Form BEN-2 with the Registrar of Companies but not published for open search. Listed companies must still file BEN-2 despite public disclosure elsewhere; government-owned companies are exempt from the requirement entirely.
India beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in India
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for India, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about India
India’s company register runs on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ MCA21 platform, with each company assigned a unique 21-character Corporate Identity Number (CIN) by one of 25 state-level Registrar of Companies offices; more than 31 lakh (3.1 million) companies are registered nationally, of which over 20 lakh (2 million) are presently active. Separately, GSTIN registration — introduced with the July 1, 2017 Goods and Services Tax reform that replaced a patchwork of state and central indirect taxes — functions as India’s closest equivalent to a universal business tax identifier, with roughly 1.53 crore active GST registrations as of mid-2025; GST itself was restructured again in September 2025, collapsing four tax slabs into two main bands (5% and 18%) plus a 40% band for luxury and sin goods, effective September 22, 2025. India’s MSME sector is officially defined not by employee headcount but by a combined investment-in-plant-and-machinery and annual-turnover test, revised upward (investment limits raised 2.5x, turnover limits 2x) effective April 1, 2025; over 7.83 crore enterprises were registered on the Udyam Registration Portal as of February 28, 2026, though a reliable, primary-sourced current breakdown by micro/small/medium size class could not be confirmed and is deliberately not presented as a precise percentage split here.
Significant Beneficial Owner (SBO) rules under Section 90 of the Companies Act 2013 require individuals holding 10% or more beneficial interest, directly or indirectly, to be declared by companies to the Registrar of Companies; whether these filings are searchable by the general public in the way some other countries’ beneficial-ownership registers are was not confirmed in current research and should not be assumed either way. India has been a full FATF member since 2010, is not on the FATF grey list, and its 2024 Mutual Evaluation placed it in "regular follow-up" — the strongest available compliance-monitoring tier. Total FDI reached a provisional $81.04 billion in FY2024-25 (+14% year-on-year, DPIIT), with services and manufacturing both posting strong growth, though a reliable current entity-count (as opposed to monetary) figure for foreign-owned companies specifically could not be isolated from the RBI’s most recent Foreign Liabilities and Assets census (33,850 entities reporting FDI and/or ODI combined, as of the FY2022-23 round) — this gap is stated explicitly rather than papered over with an approximated percentage. India’s broader growth story is genuinely distinctive: UPI processed 228.3 billion digital-payment transactions in 2025, roughly 49% of global real-time payment volume; the DPIIT has recognised over 1.64 lakh startups and 125 unicorns as of early 2026; and Production Linked Incentive schemes across 14 strategic sectors had driven over ₹2.16 lakh crore in cumulative investment and 14.39 lakh direct-plus-indirect jobs as of December 2025.
India company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses India ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a India counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 3,999 India entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many India companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 2.6M+ company records for India, of which 1.8M+ (70%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in India, and is that information public?
India company register data starts with the Register of Members required under Section 88 of the Companies Act 2013, held by each company rather than published centrally — the government's MCA21 portal shows only master data, not shareholding detail. Beneficial ownership is tracked separately as the Significant Beneficial Owner (SBO) regime under Section 90, at a 10% ownership, voting, or profit-sharing threshold, lowered from an earlier 25%. It is filed as Form BEN-2 with the Registrar of Companies but not published for open search. Listed companies must still file BEN-2 despite public disclosure elsewhere; government-owned companies are exempt from the requirement entirely.
Can I see a India company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 729 shareholder records for India companies, with 2.7M+ ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Can I find the directors of a India company on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 33,781 officer and director records for India companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Can I look up a India company's VAT number on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 10.2M+ VAT records for India companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Can I access financial statements for India companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 3,999 digitized financial reports for India companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Does Zavia offer an API for India company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including India, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in India?
Zavia's India beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.