Thankyou walked away with the title of Anthill’s “Coolest Company 2016” at the 11th annual Cool Company Awards on Thursday night.
There is nothing cooler than a company that exists to end global poverty in this lifetime. Thankyou creates consumer products (water, food body care and baby) and gives 100 per cent of the profits to aid and development programs.
The idea for Thankyou was born out of co-founder Daniel Flynn’s frustration, in 2008, that over 900 million people didn’t have access to safe drinking water on a daily basis, yet the Australian bottled water industry was worth an estimated $600 million a year. So, he took a counter-intuitive move and launched his own bottled-water brand.
Thankyou products are now available at over 4000 outlets, including Coles, Woolworths, Chemist Warehouse, Priceline and independent supermarkets, as well as its own online store. Chapter One is available online or through Newslink, Relay and Audible. To date, Thankyou’s customers have helped deliver life changing projects to 572,333 people.
Learn more about the Thankyou story here.
But what makes a company “cool”? According to Anthill founder James ‘Wild Thang’ Tuckerman, “cool” companies are “remarkable” companies.
In other words, they are worthy of being talked about.
“They can be amazing, innovative, one-of-a-kind,” said Tuckerman. “They can be all those things. But what sets cool companies apart is that they are, by their very nature, worthy of being ‘remarked’ about.”
The “Jungle” themed night, held at the LaunchPad3 co-working space in Richmond, Victoria, crowned winners across 11 categories.
| COMPANY / ORGANISATION NAME | RANKING | CATEGORY |
| Thankyou | COOLEST | BIG KAHUNA |
| SponsoredLinX | FINALIST | BIG KAHUNA |
| WME | FINALIST | BIG KAHUNA |
| Mummu Sport | WINNER | GLOBAL |
| Brightgreen | FINALIST | GLOBAL |
| Tech Mpire | FINALIST | GLOBAL |
| InfoTrack | WINNER | INNOVATION |
| Neto | FINALIST | INNOVATION |
| PredictiveHire | FINALIST | INNOVATION |
| iMAGECLOUD | WINNER | MICRO |
| The Laser Co | FINALIST | MICRO |
| Linkfluencer Pty Ltd | FINALIST | MICRO |
| BONJORO (Vimily Pty Ltd) | WINNER | MOBILE |
| Vouchify | FINALIST | MOBILE |
| Game On – The Ultimate App for Sports Fans | FINALIST | MOBILE |
| Christmas Casuals | WINNER | NUMBERS |
| Stone & Chalk | FINALIST | NUMBERS |
| Inspire CA | FINALIST | NUMBERS |
| Progressclaim.com | WINNER | ONLINE |
| Warrior Forum | FINALIST | ONLINE |
| Open Learning Global Pty Ltd | FINALIST | ONLINE |
| Buzinga | WINNER | SAVVY |
| SignManager | FINALIST | SAVVY |
| ySafe Solutions | FINALIST | SAVVY |
| Developing East Arnhem Limited | WINNER | SOCIAL |
| Enable IT Recycling | FINALIST | SOCIAL |
| HoMie | FINALIST | SOCIAL |
| SixPivot | WINNER | STARTUP |
| Data Creative | FINALIST | STARTUP |
| Cashrewards | FINALIST | STARTUP |
| Beach Harvest Australian Coconuts | WINNER | X-FACTOR |
| she wear | FINALIST | X-FACTOR |
| UPPERCUT DELUXE | FINALIST | X-FACTOR |
HONOURABLE MENTIONS / HIGHLY COMMENDED
| COMPANY / ORGANISATION NAME | RANKING | CATEGORY |
| Mobile Embrace Limited | HON | GLOBAL |
| ZACK Group | HON | GLOBAL |
| Black Lab Design | HON | INNOVATION |
| Chill Enterprises Pty Ltd | HON | INNOVATION |
| Evolving Machine Intelligence Pty Ltd | HON | INNOVATION |
| finder.com.au | HON | INNOVATION |
| Fizzics Education | HON | INNOVATION |
| JAGONAL The Office Space Search Engine | HON | INNOVATION |
| Joviam Pty Ltd | HON | INNOVATION |
| MoneyMe Financial Group | HON | INNOVATION |
| OrionVM | HON | INNOVATION |
| PaSME Pty Ltd | HON | INNOVATION |
| Social Garden | HON | INNOVATION |
| 1300GETTINT by Trublutint | HON | MICRO |
| A Not So Young Woman Abroad | HON | MICRO |
| Bright Conferences | HON | MICRO |
| Caramelicious | HON | MICRO |
| Healthy Business Finances | HON | MICRO |
| Social Media Perth (#SMPerth) | HON | MICRO |
| Andzen | HON | NUMBER |
| Marketlend | HON | ONLINE |
| Stylerunner | HON | ONLINE |
| AMPLIFY | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| ANECSYS | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Body Beyond Baby | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Cat Napping Suburban Retreat | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Enterprise Monkey Ptd Ltd. | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| KJR Australia | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Laming Property | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Megaphone Marketing | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Ocius Digital | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Optimising | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| PHW Group Pty Ltd | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Quiip | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Studio Culture | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Tailor Projects | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| The Accounts Studio | HON | SAVVY SERVICE |
| Coaching with Substance | HON | SOCIAL |
| Recipe4Change | HON | SOCIAL |
| Cuberider | HON | STARTUP |
| Feel Better Box | HON | STARTUP |
| IdeaSpies | HON | STARTUP |
| Our Little Foxes | HON | STARTUP |
| The Medicine Institute | HON | STARTUP |
| Unscrabble | HON | STARTUP |
| Women Grow Oz | HON | STARTUP |
| Ziva Connect Pty Ltd | HON | STARTUP |
| Escrow.com | HON | X-FACTOR |
| Evolution 7 | HON | X-FACTOR |
| top3 by design | HON | X-FACTOR |
| Visual Domain | HON | X-FACTOR |
| WINK Models | HON | X-FACTOR |
