NXP Startups x NXP

A corporate startup program focused on hardware-heavy sectors, providing technical support, discovery calls, and ecosystem access. It targets early to growth-stage startups in automotive, industrial, and smart health. This mentorship track is distinct from NXP India's separate Tech Startup Challenge, a competition-style programme now in its sixth season that awards a combined ₹10 lakh prize pool and has run since 2021 in partnership with government and academic bodies. Startups accepted here get direct technical support and discovery calls with NXP engineers rather than prize money, reflecting NXP's broader India strategy of pairing corporate R&D access with its deep-tech ecosystem investments, including a parallel programme that incubates up to five chip-design startups for two years at a time.