Forge Innovation & Ventures
forge-iv.co Direct investor
Forge Innovation & Ventures is an open innovation network and incubator that supports hardware-first, digital-plus technology startups in India through product acceleration, grants and seed investments. Its Forge.Fund vertical provides grants and seed capital and connects startups with angel and VC investors.
Forge Innovation & Ventures is an accelerator headquartered in Coimbatore, India. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in mobility Hardware, production Hardware, defence Hardware and assistive Hardware. 132 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Forge.Fund provides catalytic capital via innovation grants and seed investments for PHY’GITAL tech (Hardware-First, Digital-Plus) startups - funding product development, product upgrades, product validation & certification, commercialisation & growth”
— Forge Innovation & Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Coimbatore, India
- Invests in
- India
- Sectors
- Mobility Hardware, Production Hardware, Defence Hardware, Assistive Hardware, Industrial Hardware, Energy & Sustainability Hardware, Health Hardware, Climate Hardware
- Portfolio
- 132 companies
Team, as Forge Innovation & Ventures publishes it
- Gopal Srinivasan Chairman, TVS Capital
- M. Balasubramaniam MD, Sakthi Group
- Sonia Manchanda Cofounder, Spread
- Shankar Vanavarayar Founder & MD
- Vish Sahasranamam Co-founder & CEO
- Lakshmi Meera VP & CPO-Forge.Academy
- Sriram R Vice President - Finance & Operations
Names and roles exactly as listed on forge-iv.co. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Forge Innovation & Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.forge-iv.co/name, type, hq_country, hq_city, status, confidence
- https://fund.forge-iv.co/is_investor, layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, description
- https://www.forge-iv.co/forge-portfoliosectors, portfolio_count
- https://www.forge-iv.co/forge-people/people
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Record 19158 · added 2026-10-27 · link last verified 2026-10-27 · confidence medium
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