ABOUT HAPPIEST MINDS

Taking a Giant Leap Towards a Digital and Sustainable World

Happiest Minds is a Specialist in Product & Digital Engineering, Generative AI, and Infrastructure Management & Security Services.

Our Business

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Joseph Anantharaju Co-Chairman & CEO
Ashok Soota Chairman & Chief Mentor
Venkatraman Narayanan Managing Director

Chairman's Letter

As we chart our path ahead, our focus remains on achieving sustainable and profitable growth by enhancing our technological expertise, expanding into key markets, and building deeper, long-term partnerships with our customers.

Ashok Soota Chairman & Chief Mentor

Joseph Anantharaju Co-Chairman & CEO

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Managing Director's Message

A substantial part of CSR initiatives, in line with what we have been doing all through the past years, are aimed at environment, rainwater harvesting, water conservation, afforestation, and biodiversity enhancement

Venkatraman Narayanan Managing Director

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Growth, Backed by Results

VALUE CREATION MODEL

Approach to Deliver Sustained Value

INPUT

  • Net Worth: ₹1,57,458 Lakhs
  • Cash and Cash Equivalents ₹1,05,823 Lakhs

OUTCOMES

  • Operating Revenue: US$ 243.57 Million (↑24.2%)
  • Total Income: ₹2,16,222 Lakhs (↑26.4%)
  • EBITDA: ₹46,224 Lakhs (↑9.7%)
  • PAT: ₹18,466 Lakhs (↓25.7%)
  • RoCE & RoE: 20.8% and 11.9% respectively
  • Market Capitalization: ₹9,08,624 Lakhs
  • Earnings Per Share (Diluted): ₹12.26
  • Dividend Per Share: ₹6

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

INPUT

  • Plant, Property and Equipment: ₹14,096 Lakhs
  • 4 Centers of Excellence (CoEs): IoT, Analytics/Artificial Intelligence, Digital Process Automation, and Cyber Security
  • 41 Offices/Presence in 14 Countries

OUTCOMES

  • Best-in-class ecosystem benefiting Happiest Minds and customers
  • Higher efficiency with reduced cycle time and faster turnaround

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

INPUT

  • Happiest Minds: 6,632
  • Employee Benefits Expense: ₹1,36,534 Lakhs
  • Attrition Rate: 16.63%
  • Total Learning Hours: 1,80,328
  • Business Enabling Program: 1,67,028

OUTCOMES

  • Women Happiest Minds Representation: 26.6%
  • Diverse workforce including 10 nationalities
    • WOW Workplace Award for IT, ITeS & GCC
    • GPTW- Happiest Minds recognized among Top 100 India’s Best Workplaces™ for IT & IT-BPM 2024
    • Top 100 India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women 2024
    • Avtar & Seramount Best Companies for Women in India in IT and Exemplar of Inclusion in the Most Inclusive Companies Index
    • Ranked #2 among Fortune’s Top 30 Future-Ready Workplaces of India
    • Gold and Silver at the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards 2024
  • PoSH Awareness Month celebrated, PoSH policy updated, internal committee revamped; Leadership training, IC meetings successfully completed

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

INPUT

  • R&D Expenditure: ₹2,047 Lakhs
  • IPs/Solution Accelerators: 22
  • IP/Solutions Product: 12
  • Leading Banking Product

OUTCOMES

  • Expertise in Generative AI & AI, Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps, Digital Process Automation, Low-code Application Platforms (LCAP), Blockchain, Quantum Machine Learning, Cloud, Business Process Management (BPM) and Integration, Security, Cyber Security, Infrastructure Management, FinOps
  • Won multiple recognitions (Read page 24-25)
  • Active research in the Quantum Cryptography space

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

INPUT

  • As part of our ESG framework, 100% of the budget allocated to our social pillars have been fully utilized member-driven action through volunteering, immersion visits, and community participation campaigns
  • Through Akshaya Patra initiatives, 21,34,145 meals were provided
  • Through the Happiest Minds Run, we contributed ₹10 Lakhs to Nanhi Kali – K.C. Mahindra Trust for the education of the girl child
  • Through the Idayangal Trust, we have donated ₹24 Lakhs to support those diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes for a year
  • 241 interactions with Analysts, Investors, and Shareholders
  • Community Giving – Daan Utsav | Raised ₹14.5 Lakhs, fulfilling 2,500 wishes across 4 NGOs
  • Kitchen Visits - Akshaya Patra Kitchens to gain insight into daily operations, logistics, and food safety practices
  • Blood Donation Drive - Rotary International, over 100 units of blood donated by members, contributing to emergency preparedness and civic health

OUTCOMES

  • Happiest People Pulse Survey: 76
  • Customer Happiness Survey: 63
  • Active Customers: 281
  • Million Dollar Customers: 57
  • Repeat Revenues: 94.3%

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

INPUT

  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Vision to be Carbon Neutral by 2030
  • Energy-saving & optimization initiatives
  • Promoting responsible use of water in-house and through community initiatives
  • Optimizing business travel
  • Waste reduction through reusing and recycling
  • Water consumption: 71,619 KL
  • Energy consumption: 40,11,396.98 kWh

OUTCOMES

  • As part of our commitment to environmental sustainability, we planted 1,13,500 tree saplings across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Noida, and Odisha
  • This plantation is estimated to sequester approximately 2,383 metric tonnes of CO₂ annually
  • Total emissions (Scope 1 + Scope 2) = 3,884.16 MTCO2e (1,012 + 2,872.160)
  • Electricity generated by Renewable Energy (Solar) - 48,719 kWh, a 12.13% increase in solar energy utilization
  • 100% water recycled through Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and we have sensor-based water fixtures, rainwater harvesting/percolation wells
  • Over the past two years, we have constructed 371 wells under the One Billion Drops (OBD) program, facilitating the conservation of approximately 47.52 million litres of rainwater
  • We encourage people to travel by train for a distance < 550 Kms.
  • Business Travels are mostly through economy class
  • Waste Recycling - We are committed to optimizing resource utilization across our operations to minimize waste generation and support a circular economy
  • Our initiatives include E-waste Management, Food Waste Utilization, and Hazardous Waste Prevention, reinforcing our commitment towards environmental protection and sustainability
  • Total water recycled through STP - 100%, Treated wastewater from our STP is effectively recycled and reused for landscaping and washroom flushing, reducing freshwater consumption
  • Electricity generated from Renewable Energy (Solar) - 4,86,719 kWh, 12.13% increase in solar energy utilization

OUR OPERATING MODEL

Opportunity Tracking
  • Sales Intelligence Tool
  • Partner connects, deal database, and customer referrals for lead generation, nurturing, and proactively sending proposals
  • Skills, competencies, and capabilities of Happiest Minds
Capitalizing on Projects
  • Deal qualification and clarity on the value proposition
  • Stakeholder mapping, interlocks with other enterprise applications, and collaboration on CRM
  • Management review of the pipeline
  • Controlled access to the proposal repository
  • Customer testimonials
  • Deal-based marketing and innovative pricing techniques
  • Win/Loss analysis
Client Retention
  • Evaluation and assessment of project execution and delivery
  • Identification of improvement areas
  • Customer feedback: Satisfaction, advocacy, loyalty, and value for money
Delivering Excellence
  • Matching people skills, entering collaborations, and using accelerators/new solutions/tools to meet customer requirements
  • Continuous project monitoring and defect tracking supported by LEAN and quality control processes

Business Segment Review

Product & Digital Engineering Services (PDES)

We strengthened our Product and Digital Engineering Services (PDES) business through targeted initiatives to scale operations and deliver long-term value. We enhanced our domain expertise and expanded our global presence.

Generative AI Business Services (GBS)

Happiest Minds is at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution, driving transformation across industries.

Infrastructure Management and Security Services (IMSS)

Happiest Minds delivers end-to-end infrastructure and security services—spanning advisory, transformation, and managed operations.

ESG

ENVIRONMENTAL

Summary on Environmental Focus Sustainability is embedded in our operations and identity. As environmental stewards, we recognise the vital role businesses play in shaping a sustainable future. Our initiatives focus on addressing climate change and advancing green energy adoption.

SOCIAL

In the tranquil embrace of generosity, we caress the soul of joy; in the fervor of true passion, we awaken the quintessence of purpose; and in the serene depths of mindfulness, we unravel the infinite vastness of our being.

GOVERNANCE

Governance within ESG centres on ethical leadership, transparency, and accountability across all our decision-making processes.

Glimpses of FY 2024-25

Showcased our commitment to transformation through innovation, integration, and industry expertise at the Press Conference 2025
Mobilized a united effort with 1400+ runners across Bengaluru, Pune, Noida, Bhubaneswar, and Madurai during the Happiest Minds Run 2025 to support girls’ education in STEM
Featured among AIM’s ‘50 Best Firms for Data Scientists to Work for 2024’, affirming our data-driven culture
Acknowledged our MD & CFO, Venkatraman Narayanan, as the Leading CFO of the Year at the CII CFO Excellence Awards 2023-24
Honored with the WOW Workplace Award in the IT, ITeS & GCC category for exceptional workplace culture
Celebrated PureSoftware’s Arttha for winning the ‘Best Banking-as-a-Service Platform of the Year’ award at the 14th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit
Recognized among the 2024 Avtar & Seramount Best Companies for Women in India in IT, and as an Exemplar of Inclusion in the Most Inclusive Companies Index
Awarded ‘Inspiring Firm in AI & Analytics’, with Praveen RP honored with the ‘AI Trailblazer Award’ at the 3AI ACME Awards
Recognized with the CNBC-TV18 India Risk Management Award 2024 for excellence in risk strategy and governance
Happiest Minds is awarded as 'Best DevOps Framework for Scalability and Security (IT Services)’ at the India DevOps Show 2025

Business Responsibility & Sustainability Reporting

Expanding Global Footprint

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