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About
The
Programme
A
University-Led
Incubation
Model.
Atlas Forge is a design-led incubation programme that equips early-stage founders with the tools, mentors, and community to build products people genuinely love.
Since 2025
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Incubation lab
ATLAS Forge is a university-led incubation model in Mumbai. Founders get the people, facilities and practical support needed to move from an idea to a product.
The Process
How to Join Forge
Apply through the ATLAS Forge Incubation Application. Our team reviews applications and generally responds with a decision or next step within one week. Selected applicants may be invited for a conversation, review or pitch before final onboarding. No complicated process. Just show us what you’re building.
Why should you join
Forge?
Build with the right support
Get access to mentors, resources, and a community that helps you turn your idea into a real product.
Grow with the right network
Connect with founders, investors, industry experts, and opportunities that can help take your venture forward.
Work through real challenges, test your assumptions, and gain practical experience along the way.
The
Infrastructure
State-of-art
Ready To
Build
3D printing, creative production and hands-on making are active today on one Mumbai campus.
- 3D printers across multiple materials
- 303D printers acrossmultiple materials
- Fashion lab machines
- 60+Fashion labmachines
- Students across 04 schools.
- 4,000Students across04 schools.
- Sq ft, 2 floors - already running
- 10KSq ft, 2 floors -already running
From Idea to Growth,
Supported Every Step of the Way.
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Multidisciplinary
Support.
Design
Make it useful and desirable.
Business
Make the model viable.
Engineering
Make it work reliably.
Law
Make it legally ready.
From Idea to Market
One Journey.
One Clear Path.
Define
Start with the problem, the user and one clear reason to build.
Prototype
Turn the idea into a working model you can see, hold and improve.
Produce
Make the product reliable, repeatable and ready for production.
Validate
Set up the company, validate the idea and meet legal requirements.
Launch
Build the brand, packaging and market plan customers can understand.
Grow
Use proof, partners and funding to take the product to market.
Average
Expected
Duration
4-6
Months
From initial concept to market-ready product.
From
Prototype
To Production
Manufacturing
Made
Simpler
ATLAS Forge coordinates sourcing, expert advice, product testing and production partners—so founders have one team guiding the move to market.
- 01
Design for production
Make every part practical, reliable and ready to produce.
- 02
Procurement Partners
Find the right materials, components and suppliers.
- 03
Testing + Certification
Work with Maharashtra agencies to test, validate and certify the product.
- 04
Specialist Advisers
Get focused help with materials, processes and industry needs.
Incubated Startups
Products In
Development.
01
Technology + Mobility
Retail intelligence for India’s informal retail economy.
Building a clearer operating layer for neighbourhood retailers—turning everyday trade into decisions owners can act on.
A compact underwater rover for shallow-water aquaculture.
Extending a farmer’s view below the waterline, making routine crop and water monitoring more accessible from the surface.
A tactical unmanned ground vehicle platform in development.
Dhanay Padmashali and Krishna Mistry are developing a configurable rover for logistics, surveillance and reconnaissance at the edge.
Portable biomedical-waste containment for care beyond hospitals.
The founder is making safer disposal practical for travellers, caregivers and communities wherever treatment happens outside a clinical setting.
02
Consumer + Lifestyle
Diamonds beyond jewellery—out of the locker and into everyday life.
The team is reimagining lab-grown diamonds as expressive, wearable objects designed for modern, everyday use.
A brand built for pets, the planet and their people.
The team is shaping a thoughtful pet-care brand around the everyday bond between animals, people and a healthier planet.
Substance over status.
The founder is building a fashion studio where considered design, material character and lasting value matter more than labels.
03
Play + Creative
Intelligent toys designed for play-based learning.
Translating familiar forms, stories and activities into a playful system that helps children learn by doing.
A multi-city incubator for collaborative arts.
The team is connecting creative communities across Kolkata and Mumbai to turn cross-disciplinary collaboration into new productions.
Our Success
The Forge
Success Story
Atlas Forge is a design-led incubation programme that equips early-stage founders with the tools, mentors, and community to build products people genuinely love.
New Launches
Atlas Concierge
A paid design & consultancy service for outside clients — delivered by students, quality-checked by faculty, approved by the Atlas Forge team.
3D Rendering & Animation
Branding & Packaging
Fashion Design
Interior Design
Legal Advisory
Core Team
Built by founders.
For founders.
Mihir Pawar
Head of Incubation
A founder-turned-incubation leader, Mihir built a hardware startup from zero to funding with support from the Startup India Seed Fund and NIDHI-PRAYAS. He now helps founders turn early innovation into fundable, market-ready ventures.
Abhrojit Boral
Chief Innovation Officer
Abhrojit brings more than 10 years of experience in human-centred design and venture growth. An NIFT Gold Medallist, UK postgraduate and PhD scholar, he helps founders validate markets, build products people value and scale with clarity.
FAQs
Still have questions?
Let’s break it down.
ATLAS Forge is a design-led incubation programme and product incubation centre at ATLAS SkillTech University in Mumbai. It equips early-stage founders with the tools, mentors, facilities and community needed to move from an idea to a product people genuinely love.
Founders get access to mentors, resources and a 10,000 sq ft facility across two floors, plus design, business, engineering and law expertise from the university’s four schools — ISDI, ISME, uGDX and LAW. Forge also coordinates sourcing, expert advice, product testing and production partners.
Selected founders join the incubation programme itself. Atlas Concierge — the design and consultancy service delivered by students and quality-checked by faculty — is a separate paid service for outside clients.
Equity is not part of the application. Anything of that nature is discussed directly with the ATLAS Forge team before onboarding, and nothing is agreed without a conversation first.
Forge connects founders with investors, industry experts and opportunities that can take a venture forward, and helps prepare the proof, partners and funding path needed to take a product to market.
The 3D Printing Farm (30+ printers), the Creative Studio (90 sewing machines, 80+ dress forms, two creator studios), the Maker Space (50+ workstations, AR/VR immersive lab and fab lab) and the Clay Studio & Textiles Innovation Lab — 10,000 sq ft across two floors in BKC, Mumbai.
No. The journey starts at Define — the problem, the user and one clear reason to build — and moves through Prototype, Produce, Validate, Launch and Grow. Just show us what you are building.
Six stages: Define the problem, Prototype a working model you can see and hold, Produce something reliable and repeatable, Validate by setting up the company and meeting legal requirements, Launch with brand, packaging and a market plan, and Grow using proof, partners and funding.
Four to six months on average, from initial concept to a market-ready product.
Yes. Forge covers design for production, procurement partners for materials and components, testing and certification with Maharashtra agencies, and specialist advisers for materials, processes and industry needs — with one team guiding the move to market.
Apply through the ATLAS Forge Incubation Application. The team reviews applications and generally responds with a decision or next step within one week. Selected applicants may be invited for a conversation, review or pitch before final onboarding.