To plan effectively for sustainable, inclusive cities, policymakers and planners need granular data on urban economies as outlined in our companion policy brief. To address this need, our research has compiled such a dataset for the Indian city of Bangalore, covering formal and informal firms across different kinds of economic activities at a high level of spatial granularity. We constructed this dataset using India’s Economic Census, and by filling in the known gaps using a spatial, rule-based merge with the Karnataka Common Business Register. In this brief, we present applications of this newly constructed dataset for understanding Bangalore’s urban economy, and make a case for how this can play an important role to support better economic and urban planning for Indian cities.