Happiest Minds achieves annualized run rate of $50 mn and 100+ customers in FY15

by | Apr 28, 2015

Records 56% revenue growth with robust team of 1450 experts in disruptive technologies

Bangalore, India, April 27, 2015: Happiest Minds Technologies, a next generation digital transformation, infrastructure and security and product engineering services company today announced its financial results reporting an annualized run rate of $50 million in 3 full years of operations. It has built a base of over 100 customers and a team of 1450 people specializing in disruptive technologies. Q4 of the financial year was also the first break-even quarter.

In the last quarter, Happiest Minds repositioned its IT Services business unit as ‘Digital Transformation & Enterprise Solutions’ (DT&ES) after enabling successful digital transformation for many customers, witnessing increased demand for digital transformation services. The company also appointed Sashi Kumar as the CEO & MD to further drive its growth and accelerate innovation in a world of productized services and solutions.

Commenting on the journey, Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies, said “We are on a strong growth trajectory coupled with stellar customer base.  Our $ 50 mn revenue rate, 100+ customers base and team size of 1450 are all record levels for an Indian IT Services company in first 3 years from commencement of operations. Our unique message of ‘Happiness’ is resonating well with our people and customers.”

Happiest Minds is also en route to becoming the fastest Indian IT Services Company aiming to achieve $100mn in revenue with a focus on going public within next 4 years.

Sashi Kumar, CEO & MD, Happiest Minds Technologies said, “As traditional businesses are gradually looking to invest further in the direction of Digital Transformation, we at Happiest Minds are developing revenue-enhancing models for our customers. Multiple offerings focused on Agile Infrastructure and modern Enterprise Solutions for Digital Transformation shall be the overarching strategy of Happiest Minds.”

Some of the projects delivered by Happiest Minds in the areas of digital transformation, IoT and Security include:

·         Personalization using big data analytics for leading home improvement retailer;

·         Real-time mobile app analytics using big data and cyber security for a leading Telecom provider;

·         Connected IoT gateway solution for US solar energy company;

·         Multi-channel transformation for leading European cinema chain;

·         Customer management and integrated mPOS application for leading hospitality brand;

·         In-vehicle telematics solution for leading semiconductor company;

·         Secure, agile, personal cloud oriented nextgen infrastructure management platform for leading tech services provider;

·         One of world’s largest cyber security protection, monitoring and management centres for a giant conglomerate.

Happiest Minds enables Digital Transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experience, business efficiency and actionable insights through an integrated set of disruptive technologies: big data analytics, internet of things, mobility, cloud, security, unified communications, etc. Happiest Minds offers domain centric solutions applying skills, IPs and functional expertise in IT Services, Product Engineering, Infrastructure Management and Security. These services have applicability across industry sectors such as retail, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, banking, insurance, hi-tech, engineering R&D, manufacturing, automotive and travel/transportation/hospitality.

Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Happiest Minds has operations in the US, UK, Singapore, Australia and has secured $ 52.5 million Series-A funding.  Its investors are JPMorgan Private Equity Group, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota.

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Brian Pereira
Brian Pereira
Brian Pereira is an Indian journalist and editor based in Mumbai. He founded Digital Creed in 2015. A technology buff, former computer instructor, and software developer, Brian has 29 years of journalism experience (since 1994). Brian is the former Editor of CHIP India, InformationWeek India and CISO Mag. He has served India's leading newspaper groups: The Times of India and The Indian Express. Presently, he serves the Information Security Media Group, as Sr. Director, Editorial. You'll find his most current work on CIO Inc. During his career he wrote (and continues to write) 5000+ technology articles. He conducted more than 450 industry interviews. Brian writes on aviation, drones, cybersecurity, tech startups, cloud, data center, AI/ML/Gen AI, IoT, Blockchain etc. He achieved certifications from the EC-Council (Certified Secure Computer User) and from IBM (Basics of Cloud Computing). Apart from those, he has successfully completed many courses on Content Marketing and Business Writing. He recently achieved a Certificate in Cybersecurity (CC) from the international certification body ISC2. Follow Brian on Twitter (@creed_digital) and LinkedIn. Email Brian at: [email protected]
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