FORGE is the incubation enterprise launched by the Coimbatore Innovation & Business Incubator (CIBI), founded with the vision to create & catalyze innovation powered enterprises that harness the power at the intersection of hardware, software, and computing technologies to solve real-world problems, creating economic gains and delivering social impact. FORGE.FACTORY - the 20,000 sq.ft incubator established in Coimbatore, includes HWjunction - the fully integrated lab for full-spectrum hardware innovation offering equipment, tools, and resources in computing (AI/ML), IoT, electronics, desktop fabrication, 3D printing, drones, and automation & robotics, to support the design, development, and testing of ‘manufacturing’ ready prototypes.

Founded on this principle is our strategy to build a multi-level portfolio of programs that combine to offer a comprehensive suite of services throughout the startup lifecycle from ideas to enterprises. We have adopted a 3-stage process for accelerating innovative ideas into enterprises with potential for investments, growth, and profits, FORGE.FELLOWS - a pre-incubation program modelled in the form of an innovation/startup fellowship, followed by FORGE.FIRST - an incubation program

FORGE offers holistic incubation services covering innovation labs, incubation grant, acceleration, and seed capital investment to transform innovative ideas into successful enterprises with potential for growth, impacts, and profits. FORGE has achieved steady and significant progress in our vision to become a 360D Incubation Enterprise, built on the 3 pillars of our strategy and operations - value creation & delivery, revenue generation, and self-sustainable growth, aimed at a fast-tracking product launch in the market and enterprise creation, and culminating in FORGE.FAST - a seed investment and business accelerator program.