IIT Madras

Sample of Consulting Projects

• Asha for Education

  Area: Education
  Year: 2017

  

  A California-based NGO with 50+ chapters around the world whose mission is to catalyze socio-economic change in India through the education of underprivileged children.
  
  Asha for Education’s Chennai Chapter reached out to us to solve a host of problems with Focus areas;
  i) Media and Marketing
  ii) Human Resource Acquistition
  iii) Creation of Market Linkages
  

  "The 180 DC IIT Madras team dealt with the challenges that we had in a concrete manner. Their consultants took the trouble to understand the problems we had and worked with us to arrive at a solution. Their recommendations provide good pointers on what we can do moving ahead."
  
  - Rajaraman Krishnan, Coordinator, Asha Chennai

• TagHive

  Area: Education
  Year: 2018

  

  TagHive is a South Korea based edtech spinoff from Samsung. With a funding from Korea International Cooperation Agency which is the Global Development arm of government of South Korea, they are working on a low cost clicker solutions for government school students in India. The objectives of TagHive's engagement with 180DC were, among other things, to benchmark technology solutions currently being used in govt schools in India, conduct a segmented analysis of the market and come up with a list of product features suitable for every school segment. Based on our extensive recommendations, the team at TagHive developed Class Saathi which was piloted in 20 schools in Varanasi in February 2019.

  "The team at 180 DC IIT Madras came up with fresh ideas and approach and made it easier for us to achieve our aims. Our overall experience was very good and we look forward to future engagements with the team."
  
  - Pankaj Agarwal, CEO, TagHive

• StreeStyle

  Area: Women Empowerment
  Year: 2019

  

  StreeStyle is a Mumbai-based sustainable fashion brand which works in the area of women empowerment. They train women self help groups under Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM), a Government of Maharashtra agency and work with them to produce standardized fashion decor and accessories from pre-production waste of the fabric industry. In addition to other offline & online channels, they plan to sell at art festivals. StreeStyle reached out to us for help in following focus areas:
  
  1. Market expansion:- Art Festival in Milan, Italy - On-Ground Pricing recommendation, On-ground business and Customer relationship management plan
  2. Market research: - Competitor analysis, Pricing recommendation, Marketing Strategy

  “The team at 180 DC IIT Madras gave us a lot of insight for our project launch at Milan. The competitor analyses and business leads- both helped us a lot and took pressure off the team. It was a great experience- very valuable. For a social start up like ours, such collaborations are super useful. Collaborations like these are a must for the social sector to flourish.”
  
  - Priyanka Shah, Co-Founder, StreeStyle

• AI4Bharat

  Area: Technology
  Year: 2020

  

  Founded by Mitesh Khapra and Pratyush Kumar, faculty members in the department of computer science and engineering at IIT Madras, AI4Bharat is a community of engineers, domain experts, policy makers, and academicians collaborating to build AI solutions to solve India’s problems, today.
  
  The platform is open to students who are mentored to solve real-world problems and accelerate AI innovation. The key areas that AI4Bharat focuses on building AI solutions for are: Agriculture, Health Care, Digital India, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Language and Culture.
  
  AI4Bharat reached out to us to help them with the ‘Language and Culture’ vertical with particular emphasis on developing word embeddings for Indian languages through strategic data acquisition for Natural Language Processing.

  "We needed an actionable plan given the lack of required workforce that we have for implementation. The most valuable part of the project for us was the fact that even with the immense time constraints, the 180 Degrees Consulting IIT Madras team delivered by bringing with itself the enthusiasm of the students and their ability to work hard with young eager minds. We look forward to working with them again in the future."
  
  - Dr. Pratyush Kumar, Co-Founder, AI4Bharat and Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras