Saturday, 25 March 2017

AppWorks acquires BigDrop

Gurgaon based IT servicing and consulting company AppWorks has acquired BigDrop, a custom software development startup which offers solutions to other startups, SMEs and large companies. AppWorks will leverage the capabilities of BigDrop engineers to enhance its capabilities in services, products and digital marketing.
AppWorks, which started as a niche IT servicing and consulting company in 2008, has evolved into a holding company with strong capabilities in building IT solutions especially mobile apps, offering consulting services to MNCs on improving their software engineering practices, upskilling freshers to make them employable, and collaborating with startups to help them launch in the market. It has a development team of 50 engineers.

AppWorks is now becoming a collection of LOBSs – BigDrop, OrganIQ, UpSkill plus a host of startups. The bootstrapped startup had around 25 clients including SoftAge, India Accelerator, Just Rokket and VConnekt. Recent acquihires include ride-sharing startup Lyft acquiring Pune based startup Finite Paths, Ixigo acquiring mobile content sharing app Reach, Online Tyari acquisition photo and video sharing app Pix, and UpGrad acquiring corporate training startup Pyoopil Education Technologies.

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