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India’s Global Capability Centers

Discover the full breadth of India's GCC ecosystem across industries, cities, and capabilities. Explore the centres powering everything from product innovation and AI to cloud engineering, cybersecurity, analytics, customer experience, and beyond.

Proximus India

Proximus India

Proximus India is the Bengaluru-based Global Capability Centre of Proximus Group, the Belgian telecom and digital communications leader operating across connectivity, CPaaS, and digital identity. Established in early 2025 and set up in partnership with Infosys, the centre is designed to anchor the global transformation agenda of Proximus Global, the €3.1-billion entity that consolidates Route Mobile, BICS, and Telesign under one operating structure. With Route Mobile's existing India engineering depth as inherited infrastructure, Proximus India enters the GCC landscape with strategic assets already in place; the Bengaluru centre is being built to translate that foundation into a unified global capability.

TelecomBengaluru
Guidewire India

Guidewire India

Guidewire India is the engineering and professional services hub of the global P&C insurance software leader. The Bengaluru centre co-owns core platform architecture, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems that power 570+ insurers across 43 countries. At approximately 500 employees today and targeting 1,000 by 2028, it ranks among the few mid-scale GCCs in India where genuine global product ownership sits at the centre of the mandate.

Enterprise SaaSBengaluru
Atlassian India

Atlassian India

Atlassian India is the company's largest R&D presence outside Australia and the United States, with 2,500+ employees across the country. The Bengaluru team, which accounts for roughly half the India headcount, operates from a new 2 lakh+ sq ft R&D centre opened in September 2025, four times the size of the previous office. Nearly 75% of India employees are in R&D roles, contributing to enterprise search, commerce, data residency, customer success, and Atlassian's AI platform, Rovo. Bengaluru also leads development of Atlassian Service Management, the company's fastest-growing product, which has generated over AUD 6.3 billion in sales since 2018.

Enterprise SaaSBengaluru
Rolls-Royce India Tech & Capability Center

Rolls-Royce India Tech & Capability Center

Rolls-Royce India operates through a 3,000+ person ecosystem including 2,000 skilled engineers contributing to global civil aerospace, defence, and power systems development. The Rolls-Royce Global Capability and Innovation Centre, opened at Bengaluru’s Manyata Embassy Business Park in September 2025, is the company’s largest and most advanced facility worldwide at 700 seats. The Bengaluru engineering centre focuses on civil aerospace projects, digital innovation, and new tool development. Pune focuses on R&D for marine and power systems. An Infosys joint R&D centre adds a further dimension.

Aerospace & DefenceBengaluru
Salesforce India

Salesforce India

Salesforce India is the company's largest and fastest-growing international operation, with 14,000+ employees across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, and Jaipur as of November 2025. India revenue rose 47% year-on-year in FY2025, reaching Rs 13,384.5 crore, making India one of Salesforce's fastest-growing markets globally. The Bengaluru office, housed at Embassy Golf Links Business Park and expanding into Salesforce Tower at Bagmane Tech Park, leads engineering for Salesforce's Agentforce platform. The Hyderabad Centre of Excellence, opened in 2016 and expanded in 2023, anchors enterprise customer success operations. India is home to over 2 million Salesforce developers and more Trailhead users than any country outside the United States.

Enterprise SaaSBengaluru
Oracle India Development Center

Oracle India Development Center

Oracle India employs approximately 28,000 engineers across eight Indian cities, making it Oracle’s second largest development hub globally after the United States. India engineers contribute to Oracle’s most strategically important products: Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Java, MySQL, Oracle ERP (Fusion Applications), and Oracle’s AI and data platform. The India entity generated revenue of approximately Rs 13,100 crore region-aligned (Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai are among the largest centres). Oracle is actively hiring for AI, cloud architecture, and data center specialists.

Cloud & InfraBengaluru
Cisco India

Cisco India

Cisco India, headquartered at its flagship Cessna Business Park campus on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road, employs approximately 14,800+ engineers making it Cisco’s second largest global engineering hub. India engineers build core networking technology (routers, switches, next-generation network architecture), cybersecurity platforms, AI infrastructure, IoT solutions, and enterprise connectivity software. The India entity generated approximately Rs 13,100 crore in revenue for FY2025. Cisco India has been certified as a Great Place to Work and recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in BFSI in India 2026.

Networking TechBengaluru
PayPal India

PayPal India

PayPal India employs approximately 7,000 professionals across Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, making it PayPal’s fastest-growing global centre. Established in Chennai in 2005, India is a core node in PayPal’s global technology architecture, covering product engineering, programme management, data engineering across public and private cloud, infrastructure engineering, data science, and business intelligence. PayPal India processes 2-3 petabytes of transaction data daily and has declared the India centres as key and strategic to the company’s global mission.

FintechChennai
Mastercard Tech Hub

Mastercard Tech Hub

Mastercard India’s Pune hub is the company’s largest global tech hub by declared status, with approximately 4,800+ engineers working on the payments infrastructure, data analytics, and cybersecurity systems that power Mastercard’s network in 200+ countries. The Pune campus houses the Mastercard Makerspace, a developer sandbox for experimenting with emerging technologies. India entity revenue reached approximately Rs 4,600 crore for FY2025 (33% CAGR), reflecting substantial and growing economic value from India-based technology services.

BFSIPune
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A Narrative Ledger for India's GCCs

There are 2,117 Global Capability Centers operating in India today. They generate nearly $100 bn in revenue, employ 2.36 mn professionals, and house the most consequential tech work most people haven't heard of. This essay is about why a sustained editorial ledger is the right response to it.

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The Path to 2100: The Logic of the Ledger

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The City as the Definitive Operating System

When Goldman Sachs chose Bengaluru in 2004, it was (with a lot of intentionality) choosing a city that had spent forty years building the conditions for consequential work. This essay argues why cities are active variables in every GCC story, and why they deserve their own record.

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