INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Even as much of the world is digitizing its governance, in small towns and villages of India, data about its citizens is still being largely
logged on long and thick notebooks
Have they received the subsidized cooking gas cylinders? How frequent are the power cuts in the village? If these data points exist at all,
that it partnered with the startup on National Data Platform, a project to connect and bring more transparency within many of the state-run
built for their own teams to manage their projects could help data teams around the world? The early results are in: Atlan, a startup they
founded using learnings from SocialCops, has secured more than 200 customers from over 50 nations and has raised $2.5 million in pre-Series
A funding led by Waterbridge Ventures, an early stage venture fund.The startup, which employs about 80 people, has also received backing
from Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of conglomerate Tata Sons, Rajan Anandan, the former head of Google Southeast Asia, and 500 Startups
TechCrunch in an interview
Typically, there is no central system to keep track of all these data points that often live in their own silos
Sheets link, without worrying about the size or format? Or what would a data versioning and approval workflow look like? What if data
product called Collect that allows an organization to quickly deploy apps to collect granular data
These apps can collect data even when there is no internet connection
All of these data points, too, then find their way to the interface.Atlan intends to use the capital it has raised on product development
It has already won some big names including Unilever, Milkbasket, Barbeque Nation, WPP and GroupM, Mahindra Group and InMobi in India,
Chuan Lim Construction in Singapore, ServeHaiti in Haiti, Swansea University in the UK, the Ministry of Environment in Costa Rica, and Varun
overcome the friction that arises when diverse individuals need to collaborate, leading to project failure
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