Mesa Forge · Cohort 1 · 117 Future Founders

All three exits are named on day one. None of them is a demotion.

01Venture Track
Keep building. The strongest teams get capital, investor mentors and the room to go all in.
Build
02Career track
Founder's Office, Product, Growth, Sales, Finance, Consulting, Data. Real hiring loops, work samples instead of resumes.
Operate
03Family Business Track
A transformation project inside the family business, with a before and after the owners can see.
Transform

BYOB · Term 1 · 30 Aug to 29 Oct

Live totals, as of 29 Oct 06:49

ForgeX · AI build program

Aditi Bhateja

Alchemist · Inventor

You make the first version while others are still planning.

Aditi Roy

Cartographer · Scout

You'd rather ask 10 people than guess once.

Ananta Tantia

Architect · Strategist

You see the whole board before your first move.

Aditya Agarwal

Alchemist · Tinkerer

You make it work today and make it good tomorrow.

Aarav Shrivastava

Cartographer · Scout

You'd rather ask 10 people than guess once.

Area	Week 1 · September	Week 8 · October
Building	About 11% built on their own	103 live web apps
GitHub	76 of 117 had never used it	92 push their work consistently
AI in the product	Simple automations, with help	Two in three builds put AI to real work
Tools	Claude, basic n8n	Claude, Claude Code, n8n, Supabase, GitHub, Vercel

7 to 8 Sep

Two days, the whole cohort, most of them building with AI for the first time.

20 to 22 Oct

Solo, three days. Everyone who took part shipped a live app on a real Indian problem: delivery payouts, Tally data, mandi prices, FSSAI checks.

VB · Term 2 · 1 Nov to 23 Dec

Revenue
Consumer brands, commerce and services, run the traditional way or with technology.
By 17 Dec40 paid orders and ₹30,000 from buyers outside your network, or ₹60,000 for services
AI Tech
An AI or software product, AI for an industry, or a tech-enabled business. Solve it by hand first.
By 17 Dec25 returning users, ₹10,000 a month from 5 customers, or 3 paying design partners
Family Business
A transformation project or a new line inside your family business, with a parent or sibling as sponsor.
By 17 DecA signed sponsor letter and one pilot with before and after numbers