AppWorks Technologies - Gurugram

About Us

AWT is mostly a collection of companies, the largest of which, of course, is India Accelerator. It is a holding company that gives ambitious projects the resources, freedom, and focus to make their ideas happen. It has multitude of businesses, including India Accelerator, IA Co-work, OrganIQ, Cab Bazar, Lawyered, IA Labs etc.

The establishment of AWT was prompted by a desire to make the startup ecosystem better by investing in promising founders and helping them grow. The engagement goes beyond just funding the founders but also help them become better by skilling them in all the necessary domains.

AWT makes smaller bets in areas that might seem speculative given that we work mostly with startups. From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have. AWT is about startups prospering through strong leaders and independence. In general, our model is to have a strong CEO who runs each startup.

AWT intends to be the catalyst focused on the systemic approaches to innovation, bringing together a pan-Indian network of universities, companies, VCs, Mentors, Investors & Startups to create a strong supply of solutions to pressing problems. This collaboration is characterised by the cross fertilisation of knowledge from stakeholders with different backgrounds, the incorporation of un- and under-utilized ideas, technologies, and information into active innovation processes, as well as the engagement of different actors jointly contributing to create a prosperous and inclusive society.

AWT was cofounded by Ashish, Deepak, Rakesh & Guarav, who left their corporate jobs in India (Fidelity) because they believe that the current entrepreneurial paradigm is unsustainable and only through collaboration will we be able to tackle the most urgent challenges of our time. This shared vision is the DNA of our team. We aim to harness collective intelligence and foster multi-stakeholders collaborations with the aim to build, test, refine, and scale effective solutions to achieve transition towards a better future.

We are a mission driven enterprise, and we spend a great deal of time working on high-impact initiatives. Our projects include: a premier-accelerator program, Boot-camps to help the youth to co-create solutions for widespread issues, investing in High-potential startups, workshops to help corporate employees become disruptive intrapreneurs, as well as our increasing engagement with Govt bodies & support their initiatives in building economically sustainable social enterprises.

We are excited about…

• Getting more things done.
• Taking the long-term view.
• Empowering great entrepreneurs and startups to flourish.
• Investing in good opportunities and resources we see.
• Upskilling the youth of the country.