Forge Innovation & Ventures’ Post

The State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) Stakeholders Meeting was held on August 1st, 2024 in Madurai, around the establishment of a SIPCOT Industrial Innovation Centre (SIIC) in the district. The event brought together various stakeholders from the Madurai ecosystem including industry captains, academia administrators, industry associations, trade bodies, startup entrepreneurs, MSME promoters, and government officials from southern districts including Madurai, Theni, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, Thoothukudi to discuss opportunities for collaboration and stakeholder engagement strategies for the upcoming SIIC. Dr K Senthilraj IAS, MD - SIPCOT, addressed the gathering, emphasizing the growing importance of Madurai in the industrial landscape and the catalytic role that the recently-sanctioned 26,000 sqft. SIPCOT Industrial Innovation Centre (FORT) will play in the development of Madurai's industrial ecosystem. This development marks a significant step towards enhancing the industrial infrastructure to foster innovation-led industrial transformation in the region. Following this, Sivarajah Ramanathan - Mission Director & CEO, StartupTN, highlighted the remarkable growth of startups in Tamil Nadu and the state's startup prowess ranging from fintech & software based startups to hardware startups - stressing the collective responsibility to nurture and support diverse startups to drive economic growth and technological advancement in the state. Vish Sahasranamam, Cofounder & CEO - Forge, outlined to the stakeholders gathered how FORTs, as world-class incubation centres to catalyse industrial transformation, offer a full-spectrum of value-added resources and services to industrial companies - leveraging the transformative levers of talent, technology and ventures to enable them to achieve their strategic goals. He also outlined through case studies and proven success stories from the FORTs in Chennai & Hosur how these offerings of comprehensive deep technical infrastructure, services and resources seed, nurture, and accelerate the development of technologically advanced innovations into industrial-grade, commercially viable products ready for deployment at scale - thereby creating a deep impact to both the technology and manufacturing sectors in Tamil Nadu simultaneously. This initiative will accelerate the pace of adoption of technology across several industrial sectors in and around Madurai - further strengthening productivity and competitiveness. In addition, the innovators and startups seeded, nurtured, and promoted by these centres shall emerge as the next generation of enterprises creating holistic economic growth for the state of TN, driving the state towards its goal of a $1 Tn economy by 2030. Government of Tamil Nadu Guidance Tamil Nadu FaMeTN Confederation of Indian Industry Vishnu Venugopalan Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera Dr. Mahesh Veezhinathan Upasana Srinivasan #tech #industry #innovation #startup

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation

Over the past 9 years, Forge has been on a mission to unlock India's massive potential for economic growth and industrial transformation in a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and equitable manner - driven by the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, at the intersection of manufacturing and technology. We've grown into a unique, vertically integrated enterprise operating in 8 centres across Tamil Nadu spanning an aggregate of 1,75,000+ sq.ft - operated and managed by a competent team of knowledge professionals to offer talent transformation, technology labs, product innovation, startup incubation, venture acceleration, and seed investments to our currently active portfolio of 200+ startups. These interventions, coupled with our everlasting drive and commitment to HELPING STARTUPS WIN, have enabled them to generate INR 500+ Cr in Indian & international markets by commercialising 200+ products, raise INR 1000+ Cr in external investments, and generate employment with 3000+ jobs across the country. Forge's Manu'Futuring vision transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech startup incubator and forays into driving national-scale industrial transformation through entrepreneurial innovation. Executed across the entire ‘innovation powered transformation’ value chain of innovation, production, industrialisation and commercialisation this vision leverages a comprehensive strategy - Innovating Manufacturing to Manufacture Innovations. By tying together industry, academia and government, this strategy unleashes innovation-catalysed transformation powered by the forces of talent, technology and ventures - enabling public sector (government-owned industries & enterprises) and private sector (small to large industrial companies) to collaborate with startups as technology partners to drive transformation & growth. This ensures that potentially game-changing innovations successfully translate into market-dominating products that redefine manufacturing & value-chains through bold ideas and breakthrough tech - thus enabling humanity to realise the futures that it dreams, desires, deserves, and demands. As we step into our 10th year, we wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the people, partners and enablers that have enabled us to come this far, and at the same time, remind ourselves of our singular vision and mantra to orbit-shift India's industrial transformation and realise it's potential as a global superpower - MANUFACTURING IS the Future for Manufacturing THE FUTURE - i.e., Manu'Futuring. Shankar Vanavarayar | Vish Sahasranamam | Dr. B.L.Lakshmi Meera | Department of Science and Technology | iDEX - DIO | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | MeitY Startup Hub | Government of Tamil Nadu | State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) | Guidance Tamil Nadu | TIDCO | StartupTN | FaMeTN | Kumaraguru College of Technology | Vedanta Spark | Confederation of Indian Industry #startups #tech #innovation