Every success story has a humble beginning. Ours was driven by an aim to disrupt the status quo in the future of marketing!
Our founder’s journey goes back to 2019, while he was still in college, promoting and marketing events and concerts in Indore. He was training his juniors and working with them all the same to attain experience.
In his final year, Yash had IIM calls as well as placement offers in several top-notch companies across the country but he’d rather hustle to make his dream work than punch the clock for someone else’s. The paucity of funds resulted from him taking up a temporary job in Indore to provide for his startup.
Our new COO joined him around that time as an intern. While still in college, Aayushi decided to look after the affairs of the company during the day while Yash sir ran the operations at dawn. This is the arrangement they worked out from April to October 2019.
Then on the 23rd of October 2019, they together opened their first office at Sapna Sangeeta, Indore.
This opening was followed by them working out events in Indore as marketing partners. One of these was the Google Tech Fest, the biggest Tech Fest to be held in Indore. This stint brought them momentum and widespread appreciation.
By this point Feedbox already had some prominent local businesses of indore as their clients. The happiness was not for long as COVID-19 started and just like all other businesses, theirs too suffered a heavy blow due to the pandemic.
Their business operations were shut down completely and the revenue dropped to 0 but they still decided to not layoff any of their employees and continued to pay them for their work.
They started reaching out to international and verified businesses shortly after and gave them tremendous results in growth marketing and sales.
In a couple of months they’d increased their team size considerably. One and a half years in Corona, they were well set, working with Series A, Series B firms, as well as international clients from Dubai and Canada.
Following this, opened their new office in Bhawarkuwan, Indore. Pandemic brought Feedbox to square one, but without losing heart, they started working to build a local team, calling employees from nearby towns to join them in working in an office.
They opened an SEO office in Jodhpur in the July of 22. Their existing office was small so they decided to move to their 3rd office which has the capacity to host 50 people.
This was in October, exactly 3 years after they opened their first office.
In the Feb of 2022, they received the acclaimed Indore Super Startups Award from the Central Minister and Indore Sansad for their outstanding work with multiple international, series A, and series B firms, and media personalities.
But they didn’t rest on this laurel. Their innovative solutions, excellent customer service, and the spirit of pushing boundaries were met by the overwhelming MP Young Achievers Award presented to them by the CM of Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan himself.
Feedbox was among the top 10 start-ups to receive a banner shoutout in the CM house.
I cannot imagine a better day then National Startup Day to share that I have been recognized as "MP's Top Young Achiever by CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan sir".
I and Aayushi were recognized as achievers under Startup/MSME category. FeedBox was also amongst few startups whose banner got featured at CM House and Govt's Book of Achievers. Getting it in my home town was a different feeling altogether.
We also won Indore Super Startup Award last year and we were not expecting a state level recognition so soon. Our hardwork of the past 3 years paid off, all the compromises we made, all the disappointments we had, all the hustle we chose to do, carved up to this moment.
The 2 days stay, put up by the CM where we got the chance to interact not only with the popular faces in the industry but have dinner with the honourable CM sir himself reminded us of how far we'd come and how far we were yet to go.