Accelerating economic development through large-scale job creation

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development by driving job creation through large-scale initiatives in entrepreneurship, small business growth, innovation, and skilling. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dr Romesh Wadhwani, today, the Foundation is scaling impact in multiple countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Wadhwani Foundation works in partnership with governments, foundations, corporations, and educational institutes through the below Initiatives:

Wadhwani Advantage: Empowers thousands of small and medium size businesses with capabilities to maximize their growth potential.

Wadhwani Entrepreneur: Inspires, educates and enables tens of thousands of startup entrepreneurs.

• Wadhwani Inspire: Establishes a culture of entrepreneurship at a national level
• Wadhwani NEN: Empowers professionals, post-college, college and pre-college students with knowledge and skills to create high-potential startups
• Wadhwani Venture Fastrack (VFT): Empowers entrepreneurs and incubators to build successful and scalable startups

Wadhwani Opportunity: Empowers millions of students with core skills/soft skills to improve employability and higher wages.

Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP): Leverages emerging technology for well-informed policy formulation, implementation, and outcomes/impact measurement.

Wadhwani Community College: US-based platform and programs for enabling digital transformation of Community Colleges to skill and place 1M students in jobs of the future.

Wadhwani Institute for Digital Public Health (Vision): US-based, global platform for enabling digital transformation of public health organizations and programs to improve their speed, scale, impact to improve the lives of hundreds of millions.

Wadhwani Catalyst and Wadhwani Technology Platform support the Foundation’s Initiatives.