A momentous end

It’s been a long time since we posted on our blog. While most often that’s accompanied by a truckload of guilt, this time, we genuinely can say we’ve been busy sorting out the house.

As we stand on the verge of the new financial year, it’s been a crazy push through the last quarter of FY14-15.

Jan 1st, 2015 - we were celebrating the start of our 10th year in business. We’d sent out a nice e-mailer chronicling our journey that got a lot of responses from the folks who received it. In reality, we were staring down the barrel. Behind on our turnover targets, nowhere close to fulfilling our growth plans in terms of the team and with an investment offer that had turned sour from prospective investors in Dubai, there was enough to be concerned about.

However, I sit here today, writing this with a deep sense of achievement and gratitude. We’ve managed to scrape through and actually achieve our turnover target. We’ve added 12 members to the team in the past 3 months and are close to winning 4 new businesses in an entirely new space in the digital hemisphere. Most importantly, we’ve closed a round of funding with an influential investor.

Of equal significance has been the incorporation of Influx Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd - yes, we are a private limited company now and the partnership that Venky and I started back in 2005 will slowly fade into the sunset in the days to come. The new logo that we unveiled late 2014 as a build up to this year, shall be our energetic, forward looking new avatar and the symbol of unity driving Influx forward into the next decade.

Yet, none of the above is what I am most excited about. I am thrilled to have formulated a positioning plan and a mantra for Influx going forward. In the coming days, watch this space for more information on what Influx will mean to its team, clients, investors and the industry.

Happy FY2015-16 to all of you.

This posted is written by Harish Anand Thilakan, Managing Partner at Influx Interactive in his last post as such.