Wadhwani Foundation

It is the Foundation's initiative to help small and medium enterprises transform their businesses, speeding up their growth and creating more job opportunities.

It offers services like growth diagnosis, transformation recommendations, PMO and cadence setup and PMO success through expert advisors and its advantage team offering consulting, practical handholding and empowerment support to higher management.

It serves free of cost until desired outcomes are achieved also providing access to its tech-enabled community platform consisting of customers, peers, prospects and funding agencies. It serves across 50 locations in India.

Aims to use technology for public good and advice the Indian Government and bureaucracy on case-based information for effective policy making, policy implementation and impact measurement.

It also sets out to create a technology-focused Training Academy for upskilling policymakers, bureaucrats and technocrats in important technology trends and in the application of relevant technologies to their respective ministries and missions.

The Wadhwani Foundation runs the Wadhwani Skills Network. Its focus is on empowering students with essential skills for sustainable employment. It offers flexible, short-term programmes for students, emphasizing core skills for employability. For employers, the network reduces hiring and training costs, providing job-ready candidates. Its apprenticeship programmes help streamline talent selection. VTI/ETO institutions benefit from improved student outcomes and brand reputation, allowing them to influence policies and access Government funding. Digital delivery expands student intake and accelerates digital transformation.

It is an initiative of the Foundation to arm entrepreneurs with appropriate knowledge and skills to help them create high-impact startups. The programme is split up into the WE NEN and WE Liftoff phases.

The first phase identifies entrepreneurs and takes them through an experiential 14 weeks journey, learning the why, when and how to do a startup. Its customised and open-sourced courses include video and presentation led content conducted by industry experts, established entrepreneurs and mentors.

The Liftoff phase sees budding and prepared entrepreneurs building business and financial plans with ample help from mentors. They are consequently connected to funding agencies, Angels/Micro VCs, ecosystem events and networking opportunities to kick-start their enterprises.

Wadhwani Global Opportunity is the Foundation’s programme to empower students to gain competencies and skills enabling them to find good opportunities for employment leading them towards self-sustenance and supporting their families.

The programme offers long and short-term courses supporting students with facilities like career advisory, learning, tutoring, placement and consequent progression. It partners with organisations to train students in digital skills like Renewables, IoT, Cloud, Data Analytics, MedTech, Healthcare, eCommerce and Business Accounting besides core skills like Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Communication, Digital Literacy, Customer Centricity, Teamwork and Attitude.

It maintains a mobile student platform where they can access all the relevant content anywhere, anytime while providing a network of experts, forums, mentors, employers, appropriate tutoring and helpdesk services to address queries.