Kerala based startup, Innoz Technologies, the Technopark-based mobile value added services company, has won the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 award for 2010. This honor reaches the 100 most promising technology companies across the globe, which is expected to lead the next wave  of disruption and industry innovation, every year. Qualitative and quantitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into the company’s ecosystem, in addition to each company’s global strategy that includes its ability to handle the challenges of internationalization and global presence, are among the several benchmarks considered for this coveted recognition.

Innoz Technologies earlier won the Red Herring 100 Asia award and got qualified amongst the 200 companies across the globe to vie for the Red Herring Global 100 title.
“Choosing the best out of the previous three years was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,200 potential companies to 200 finalists. Trying to get it down to 100 companies was a task upon itself. INNOZ TECHNOLOGIES should be extremely proud of its achievement, the competition was difficult. Red Herring’s Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs.

Innoz Office, Delhi

Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay and many others would change the way we
live and work. Accepting the award, Deepak Ravindran, CEO, Innoz Technologies said, “It is a great honor to have Red-Herring recognize our product’s path-breaking technology and found it eligible to feature in the world’s 100 most innovative technologies. The award further validates our efforts in redefining the mobile technology space and has given us the confidence to serve millions of mobile users with one demand informations on SMS through our pioneering product SmsGyan.”

“Innoz Technologies was started by a group of engineering students and develop our first product SmsGYAN while at college and we are thankful to our mentors Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys, TIE success. The award is a testimony of our product’s path-breaking technology as well as its ease of useinternationally.” He added.

Congratulating Innoz Technologies, Technopark CEO – Mervin Alexander said, “Innoz Technologies is the second Technopark-based company to win the Red Herring Global 100 award after SunTec Business Solutions last year. Two Technopark companies have won this award continuously for two years which also reflects on the fact that the park is promoting innovative technologies that is recognized across the globe. We hope to see Innoz Technologies scaling greater heights with their innovative technology and grow to be globally recognized technology provider thus contributing their bit to make Technopark more prominent in the Global map.”

The product SmsGYAN is now accessible to 145 Million users in India across Bharti Airtel. A user can subscribe to the service by sending GYAN to 55444.After subscription a user can receive instant information about any topic for Free. Innoz was among the 16 companies to participate in the finals of the DFJ-CISCO Global Business Plan competition alongside Stanford and Georgia Tech teams. Innoz is rated inside Top 8 Emerging Product Companies in India by NASSCOM and also under Top 10 Mobile application developers in India by IAMAI.

Innoz crew at work

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Innoz Technologies has partnered with movie review portal ReviewGang.com to bring movie review,critics and ratings onto the mobile via SMSGYAN,the SMS driven answer machine.

In addition to critic reviews registered GYAN users can also post their reviews and ratings.These reviews are used to calculate a consolidated critic rating and user rating. Trusted users (editors) provide reviews which are of high quality.

Users can use the service by sending an Sms GYAN MOVIE MOVIENAME to 56161. Eg: GYAN MOVIE RAAVAN to 56161.

SMSGYAN also gives you music lyrics on demand. Now you can sing along with the song u listen.
Sms GYAN LYRICS song to 56161.Eg:GYAN LYRICS metallica nothing else matters to 56161.

SMSGYAN-an SMS driven on demand information service,providing key features such as encyclopedia,dictionary,acronyms,movie/book reviews,flight/rail/bus ticket bookings etc. over SMS & WAP.

SMSGYAN claims to answer around 20k queries each day reaching at an impressive userbase of 1 million + all over India.

Sms GYAN HELP to 56161 for list of keywords.

SMSGYAN has a unique user value-In a situation where you are stuck with no GPRS/EDGE connectivity, or you have a phone which doesn’t have a (good) web browser, SMSGYAN holds much promise in getting you in the information that you need.SMSGYAN can be used in any basic phone model.All your phone need is just an SMS facility.

The GYAN Platform can work with any number of databases/resources simultaneously and deliver mobile optimized results supporting upto a maximum of 500 characters of informations across all leading operators & networks in India.

Taking about the partneship platform on SMSGYAN,Deepak Ravindran,CEO,Innoz said:

“We know the problem for users in remembering all the shorcodes for each service-:ie: For ticket booking a number,For movie reviews some other number,for jobs again another.
Our vision is SMSGYAN- a one stop for all your information’s on demand- like an umbrella under which all the services would be available classified under keywords.
An Aggregate model-SMSGYAN is not coming up with the answers itself, but merely channeling information from other places online to you.”

SMSGYAN is a truly interoperable and accessible information service which is also available in STK/Widget/Application for mobile operators in the market.