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The 60-second pitch (plain English)
SocioApps is a non-profit foundation building three civic apps that share one volunteer pool. SecureMe activates the closest 5,000 strangers when a woman presses panic. Chakshu turns one stranger's snapshot of a missing child into a national distributed sighting network. Sevarthi replaces cash with a closed-loop social coin that goes to a meal — not to the gang behind the corner. The same volunteer credential powers all three.
Why we exist
The state cannot reach every moment in time. The numbers explain why — 4.45 lakh reported crimes against women in 2022, 8.68 lakh people reported missing in 2023, 27.6 million people in human trafficking globally. Each gap is measurable, sourced, and unanswered by current infrastructure. SocioApps is the trigger that converts intention to action — a thesis that bystanders, given the right ping, will help.
Founder bio
Ashish Sharma, founder, SocioApps Foundation. Engineer-founder. Built the SocioApps thesis after December 2012. Twelve years across IoT (SecureMe Devices, ThinkMPI), worker-safety wearables, and D2C technology platforms. Recognised by FICCI Smart Fifty, India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 (DST + Lockheed Martin + IIM Bangalore), Microsoft + Core77 'App to the Future' (2013), Google for Entrepreneurs, and NASSCOM 10K Startups.
Facts you can verify independently
- SocioApps Foundation operates as a brand of SFHL Innovations Private Limited.
- GSTIN:
07ABNCS7462D1Z1— verifiable on the GSTN portal. - Registered office: Innov8, 44, Backary Portion, 2nd Floor, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001.
- The three apps are in pre-launch beta. We are not raising public money.
- The Foundation operates under a Section 8 / non-profit governance structure.
Source data behind every statistic on this site
- Crime against women: NCRB Crime in India annual reports (2022, 2023).
- Missing children: NCRB Crime in India 2023 + Ministry of Home Affairs Khoya-Paya portal data.
- Human trafficking globals: ILO Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, 2024 edition.
- Begging-population density: Census 2011 + SECC 2011.
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What we do not do
- We do not pay for coverage. We do not gift hampers. We do not run press junkets.
- We do not embargo. If you ask a question, we answer in plain text the same day or the next.
- We do not run influencer campaigns or paid PR retainers.
Brand assets
Logo, screenshots, and founder photograph available on request from [email protected]. We provide them as PNG + SVG, 72 dpi for web and 300 dpi for print, within four hours during India business hours.