cohort 2a · done
goa.
11 oct – 1 nov · with edge city
cohort 2b · live now
bengaluru.
2 – 22 nov
week 6
final demo day.
16 – 22 nov · bengaluru
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a sanctuary forcontrarian founders.
a small group of ambitious founders, living and building together.
we work with you on the product, the story and the next raise. the residency ends; the support doesn’t.
- raised by our first 12 founders
$0M+
- founders backed
- 0
- cohorts, and counting
- 0
- of applicants accepted
- ~0.0%
founder voices.
“you spend years being the only person in the room who cares this much. then you walk in here and everyone is like that. the work got faster because the explaining stopped.”
cohort 01
the timeline.
from the first room in mumbai to new york with edge: every programme on one line, and where today sits on it.
forge, in india ·
sparta (cohort 0)
1 – 31 mar 2026 · mumbai
our own house. a cohort moves in and builds together, start to finish, under one roof.
- forge, in india
- forge, abroad
- frontier
- void dealflow
don't take our word for it.
c1: 4 weeks, 12 founders, $7m raised ($3.3m by demo day). a $150k grant pool, $200k in ai credits, the biggest villa in goa and a hardware lab. founders with offers from palantir, google and cloudflare chose the house.
introducing forge · aug 2026keep accelerating.
forge is e/acc at heart. we think the future gets better when more people build it, and build it faster: more founders, more ambition, more shots on goal. the house exists to speed that up.
keep accelerating · oct 2026so we threw a party.
building companies is serious work, and the house still knows how to have fun. ship all week, then turn the music up.
the party · oct 2026
