Happiest Minds

Happiest Minds Technologies is a digital transformation, infrastructure, security, and product engineering services company.[4] The company was founded by Ashok Soota In 2011. It is headquartered In Bangalore, India and has its operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, and Australia.[5][6]

Happiest Minds Technologies
Public
IndustryDigital transformation, product engineering, Infrastructure and Security Services[1]
Founded2011
FounderAshok Soota
Headquarters
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Key people
Ashok Soota (Chairman)
Revenue US$ 75 million(2018))[2]
Number of employees
2400[3]
Websitewww.happiestminds.com

History

Happiest Minds was founded In April 2011 by Ashok Soota, Aurobinda Nanda,Dattatreya Salagame, Joseph Anantaraju, Puneet Jetli, Raja Sekher, Raja Shanmugam and Salil Godika.[7][8][9] The company received $45 million Series-A funding In November 2011. The investors were JP Morgan Asset Management, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota.[10]

They opened their first office in Reading, UK as part of expansion in March, 2012.[11] At present they have offices in India(Bangalore, Noida and Pune), US, UK, Singapore and Australia with more than 170 plus customers globally.[12][13][14]

Products and services

The company provides digital transformation services through technologies such as internet of things, cloud, unified communications, big data analytics, mobility and security.[15][16]

They apply product engineering, IPs and functional skill in IT services and Infrastructure Management and Security services to companies in e-learning, e-commerce, insurance, banking, manufacturing, retail, travel and automotive domains.[17][18]

Partnerships

In August 2012, they have partnered with California-based mobile engagement company July Systems.[19]

Later In May 2013, the company partnered with Florida-based enterprise mobile platform company, KidoZen. Towards the end In the same year In December 2013, the company partnered with India's DataWind, a wireless web access products and services provider.[20][21]

In September 2014, they collaborated with the New York-based database firm, MongoDB.[22][23] During the same month the company partnered with XchangeLabs, a pharmacy automation company based out of Texas.[24] Towards the end of the year in December 2014, they collaborated with Mastercard's Quest to enable development of futuristic payment applications.[25]

In August 2015, they collaborated with Openbravo, a Spanish open-source software firm.[26][27][28]

In January 2016, they joined Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).[29]

In May 2017, Happiest Minds acquired Cupola Technologies, an Internet of things based startup and in June 2017, the company acquired the U.S. based digital transformation company OSSCube.[30][31][32][33][34]

References
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