By the end of July, 2013, India had a total of 874.99 mobile subscribers and users, out of which roughly 10% use of internet on their mobiles. It has been estimated that by March, 2015, there would be around 165 million mobile internet users in India, still hovering around 10% of all mobile users.
What about the huge majority of mobile users who don’t have internet access on their phones? Won’t they join the technological highway and experience its wonders?
Due to their achievement of answering more than 1.3 billion search queries via their flagship product SMSGyan: 55444, Innoz has found its name inside Limca Book Of World Records for being the largest offline search engine.
Innoz was founded in the year 1998 by 4 engineering students: Deepak, Hisam, Abhinav and Ashwin from LBS College of Engineering in Kochi, Kerala when they decided to dropout and start their own venture based on a very simple idea: to provide search engine facilities to those mobile users who don’t have internet access.
And the idea caught fire and it spread. Innoz is a RED Herring Global 100 & Asia 100 Winner and is also ranked in the Top 10 companies India by NASSCOM EMERGE 50. It was incubated at iAccelerator at IIM-Ahmedabad and has received funds from Freeman Murray, MobME, Technopark and other VCs.
last year see fund advisors,
picked up minority stake in the company as well. Innoz has offices in
New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and is profitable. There are roughly
120+ million active users of its 55444 SMS search engine all over the
world, and it’s getting almost 1 million searches a day.
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