Forge.Lighthouse — Industrial Innovation Platform

Forge.Lighthouse is a route to an industrial customer rather than an intake into incubation. Its five steps are the only selection process Forge publishes anywhere on its site.

What you get

• A defined problem from a real industrial company, written up as a solution requirement
• A screening step that Forge says is assisted by the platform, to pick candidates capable of delivering business value through a pilot
• A pilot project with the industrial company, monitored and tracked as it runs
• An impact study measuring the result against agreed indicators

Who can apply

• Hardware tech startups with something ready to pilot; Forge also names academia and research groups as sources of solutions
• Forge publishes no eligibility criteria for responding to a challenge

How selection works: A challenge inside an industrial company is identified and turned into a detailed solution requirement, then hosted on the platform. Startups submit applications showing how they meet it. Candidates are screened and selected. The chosen startup runs a pilot with the company under monitoring, and an impact study closes it out.

How to apply: The platform itself is not linked from the page, and there is no login or listing route published. Write to Forge through its general enquiry page and ask to be considered for its industrial challenges. Forge reports twelve industry partners and nine startup partners on this platform, without naming them.