SocialCops

SocialCops is a data intelligence company located in New Delhi, India that empowers organizations to make better decisions through data. Their platform aims to bring the entire decision-making process to one place — collecting primary data, accessing secondary data, layering internal data, transforming and merging all the data, and visualizing relevant insights through dashboards. Organizations around the world — including governments, corporates, nonprofits, and philanthropic organizations — use SocialCops' platform to run baseline surveys, create real-time monitoring systems, create better policies, track program implementation, make investment decisions, and generate insightful insights to make better data-driven decisions.

Products

SocialCops offers 4 products: Collect, Access, Transform and Visualize.

Collect is an Android-based data collection product designed for high-quality data collection in low-resource settings.

Access is an external data repository with more than 600 sources from 32 different countries.

Transform is a data cleaning engine built to deal with data problems from the developing world. Transform uses machine learning, entity recognition, fuzzy logic, geocoding and reverse geocoding, and more to identify errors, merge incompatible data, and work at scale on large databases or data systems.

Visualize is a data visualization product that uses real-time dashboards to generate insights and help decision makers make decisions quicker and easier.

Industry Recognition & Awards

  • SocialCops co-founders Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka were listed in Fortune India’s “40 Under 40” list twice (2015 and 2016), Forbes India’s “30 Under 30” list (2015), and Forbes Asia's “30 Under 30” list (2016)
  • Won the United Nations World Youth Summit Award, Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, IBM/IEEE Smart Planet Challenge, Singapore International Foundation Young Social Entrepreneurs, Aseanpreneurs Idea Canvas, and awards from Microsoft, IITs, and IIMs.
  • Selected as one of the 35 startups to visit Silicon Valley with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the India-U.S. Startup Konnect in 2015.
  • Selected as one of India's top 10 startups by NASCOMM to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of NASCOMM's 25 year celebration.
  • One of the 12 winners of the social entrepreneurship competition organized by the D-Prize