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July 2014
“Here is how SocialCops works: data from the people on a variety of issues that affect their daily lives – from pot-holes on roads to teacher-attendance in government schools – is crowd-sourced via low-cost internet-enabled mobile phones. It also deploys field workers to remote areas with no mobile connectivity. From…
VC Circle: Delhi-Based SocialCops Raises $320K From 500 Startups, Rajan Anandan & Others
“SocialCops is taking Big Data in a direction that a few companies have been able to do, which is providing data and insights that can help solve real world problems.” – Pankaj Jain, Venture Partner at 500 Startups SocialCops was featured in VC Circle. Read the full article here. .@VCcircle: Delhi…
Economic Times: SocialCops Raises $320K Seed From 500 Startups, Rajan Anandan and Manoj Menon
“SocialCops uses mobile phones – ranging from simple feature phones to high-end smart phones to source ground level data from citizens and non-profits, says a statement. Says co- founder, Prukalpa Sankar, ‘Even today, important national level decisions about issues like vaccinations and medication affecting millions of people are made based…
Livemint: SocialCops, the Social Data Aggregator Raises $320,000 Fund From 500 Startups, Rajan Anandan and Others
“I am thrilled with the pioneering work that SocialCops is doing. We are limited only by our imagination in terms of how technology can address the challenges facing humanity. SocialCops is well poised to play an important role in helping shape a better future and humbled to be part of…
The Google Glass, Raspberry Pi, and My First Hackathon
4 weeks into my internship at SocialCops, we realized that the office had too much hardware that wasn’t being put to much use.”Let’s organize our own internal hackathon” was a random idea that someone suggested and, with that, Hackathon #1 was organized right here at our basement office in Malviya…