Infineon Co-Innovation Program (COINS) — Eligibility Criteria

To be considered for the Infineon Co-Innovation Program (COINS), startups must meet specific criteria related to their product focus, business model, and operational structure.\n\n- The startup must be actively developing hardware-based solutions, semiconductor technologies, or embedded software products.\n- For startups concentrating on hardware-based solutions or semiconductor technologies, eligibility extends from early stage, prototyping, and pre-revenue phases up to those with higher operational maturity.\n- Startups specializing in embedded software must demonstrate that they are already generating product revenues to qualify for the program.\n- A key requirement is that the startup must pursue a scalable business model underpinned by wholly-owned or properly licensed intellectual property. Pure service providers, consulting firms, and engineering companies are explicitly excluded from this program's focus.\n- The applying entity must be a legal entity, such as an Inc., Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), or GmbH, and can be incorporated in any country globally.\n- The legal entity must maintain majority ownership by its individual founders and/or venture capital investors.\n- Finally, the startup is expected to have a dedicated, full-time management and development team in place.

Infineon Co-Innovation Program (COINS) is open to startups at the product, revenue and profitable stage working in deeptech electronics robotics. It is open to startups registered anywhere in India. Applicants should be registered as private limited and llp.