We are one of the 50 best marketing startups in the world- Foundry50

Last year, when we got the Kan Khajura Tesan project from Hindustan Unilever, we had no idea where it would take us.

The journey that started there into the marketing domain space has now taken us into one of the top 50 marketing startups in the world as selected by Unilever Foundry50.

We are the only startup from India and also I think Asia and we are proud to represent Indian startups.

We are going to Cannes!

We are very thankful to Unilever for this recognition and hope we can achieve many more things.

Since last year, once we entered the marketing space, we have been innovating on various new technologies. We have done more than 50 campaigns for brands and 2 mega projects. Almost every known brand has worked with us and we have also learnt a lot in the process.

We have infact automated a lot of the campaign management rules and created a product called Brandagent which we sell internally to existing customers and brand agencies.

A lot more announcements and achievements are coming up in the next few months. Its gonna be a busy year :)

More info here

Official Announcement
Ozonetel has been chosen to be part of the "Foundry 50 at Cannes", a search for the world's leading marketing technology startups by Unilever Foundry and Lions Innovation – a unique, new two-day event that brings together the worlds of data, technology and ideas at the 62nd annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June.

The Foundry 50 were chosen by a panel of experts for being innovative, truly disruptive and clearly differentiated from competitors already in the market

The global search was open to startups that were incorporated in the last 5 years and have raised less than $10 million in equity funding, and have relevance in the Brand & Marketing industry

Judges on the Foundry 50 panel included Brent Hoberman – serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Founders Forum, Rose Lewis – co-founder of startup accelerator Collider, Caitlin Ryan – Group Executive Creative Director at creative agency Karmarama and Oliver Garel, Head of Unilever Ventures

The final 50 startups will receive tickets to the two-day Lions Innovation event and accommodation,
and will have the unique opportunity to speed-date with industry leaders, pitch on the Unilever demo platform and will be introduced to organisations attending Lions Innovation

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