About
The Thesis
India is simultaneously executing three of the largest industrial policy bets in its history - semiconductor manufacturing, EV and battery production, and utility-scale solar. Each requires a category of worker that does not currently exist at the required scale: technically literate, plant-ready, sector-certified, and sourced from Tier-2 and Tier-3 India.
The traditional response - NGO-led skilling, government ITI programs, generic placement agencies - has not solved this. It was not designed to. It was designed for a different era of manufacturing, a different scale of need, and a different kind of anchor employer.
Chip Forge is built for this specific moment. We operate at the intersection of industrial policy and human capital - not as a training company, not as a staffing firm, but as a full-stack workforce platform that owns the Source → Train → Certify → Place → Sustain lifecycle end-to-end.
The model is anchor-funded and government-subsidised. The worker pays zero. The manufacturer gets a certified, plant-ready pipeline. The government's skilling mandates get measurable outcomes. We build the operating infrastructure in between.
The Name
"A forge is where raw material becomes something purposeful under heat and pressure. Not assembled. Not processed. Forged. Chip Forge does the same for people - taking raw technical talent from India's engineering colleges, polytechnics, and ITIs, and shaping it into the certified, plant-ready workforce that India's semiconductor and green manufacturing sectors need."
The chip in the name is a reference to the semiconductor - our beachhead sector. As the platform expands into EV and solar, the forge metaphor holds: the process is the same, the raw material is the same, only the crucible changes.
The Founder
Founder & CEO
The architect of the Chip Forge idea. Ankush saw the workforce gap in India's manufacturing buildout before it became obvious - and designed a model to close it. A decade across energy, logistics, and AI gave him a sharp understanding of how large enterprises scale and where they break. He founded Chip Forge on the conviction that the right workforce platform has to be built with industry, not sold to it after the fact.