We design.
With the people closest to the moment — women commuting late, parents searching, NGO field staff — and never around an abstract user persona.
About the Foundation
A Foundation that is also a technology company. Civic infrastructure, not charity.
SocioApps Foundation builds and operates three apps — SecureMe, Chakshu, Sevarthi — on a shared volunteer pool. We are engineers who refused to look away. We do not ask for donations. We ask people to become part of the network.
What the Foundation does
Four functions, one house.
We build.
Working software, on rate-limited infra, with public status. No pitch-deck theatre. Every app has a codebase, a build status, and a named first user.
We operate.
Charity-tech that ships and then disappears is worse than no software. The Foundation commits to running each app as long as people depend on it.
We disclose.
Build status, partner list, design decisions, deletions of identifiable data — all public. If we change course, we update the site rather than burying the old version.
“After national and international awards, I thought again — at every traffic light, a kid begging may be missing. So Chakshu was born. And I realised: I want to give but the money goes to a gang. So Sevarthi was born. We needed an organisation to hold these together. SocioApps.”
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
- NASSCOM 10K Startups
- YourStory
- Entrepreneur Magazine
- Department of Science and Technology, GOI
The team
Small team. Long horizon.
Ashish Sharma
Founder
Two decades building product studios in India. Started SecureMe after the December 2012 Delhi bus attack on the conviction that masses, not call centres, are the deterrent force. Built Chakshu and Sevarthi from the same conviction.
Co-founder, advisory, and partnership announcements will be added here as they are confirmed. We will not list anyone who has not signed.
Registered entity
Section 8 / non-profit registered in India.
SocioApps Foundation — registered as a non-profit in India. Detailed CIN, registered office address, and 12A / 80G status will be published here as the registration is finalised.
The volunteer pool
The trigger that converts intention to action.
If you are an engineer, a doctor, a journalist, an officer, or simply someone who refuses to look away — you are who we built this network with.
Join the volunteer pool