12 Nano GCCs Building Core Product, Deep Tech Capabilities in India

India’s GCC (global capability centre) narrative is evolving fast. Beyond scale and cost efficiency, a new cohort of global companies is using India to build core product IP, data platforms, AI infrastructure, and semiconductor design capabilities.

Calling 2025 a defining moment for India’s GCC ecosystem, Piyush Kedia, Co-founder and CEO of SME-focused workforce solutions company InCommon, says the year firmly dismantled the long-standing perception of India as merely a back-office destination. As a result, India has seen a growing influx of Nano GCCs.

Nano GCCs are capability-rich, leadership-heavy hubs, typically housing 50–150 skilled experts working in advanced domains.

“The most interesting work we see now is product, data, and AI sitting inside India pods that own real outcomes—not just volume,” he tells AIM.

Kedia notes that this shift has been reinforced by changes in the global operating environment. Policy uncertainty in the US, including tighter visa proposals such as H-1B changes and the Halting International Relocation of Employees Act, has altered how companies think about talent and location strategy.

Here’s a closer look at who they are and what they are building.

1. OutSystems

HQ: Boston, US (originated from Lisbon, Protugal)

 Industry: Low-code enterprise application development

 India presence: 103 employees

Software development lifecycle-focused OutSystems is building core product engineering capability in India for its low-code platform. The India team works on platform features, cloud delivery, integrations, and release engineering, supporting the company’s transition from app development tools to full-scale enterprise application delivery.

2. Cognite

HQ: Oslo, Norway

Industry: Industrial data platforms and enterprise analytics

India presence: 116 employees

SaaS company Cognite’s India centre supports product engineering and delivery for its industrial data foundation platform. The focus is on connectors, deployments, and customer implementations that unify operational data across heavy industries like energy and manufacturing.

3. Clari

HQ: Sunnyvale, US

Industry: Revenue operations and sales forecasting

India presence: 138 employees

Revenue orchestration platform Clari is using India to scale its core platform and data engineering, including CRM integrations and applied analytics. The team works on ML-driven forecasting, pipeline health, and revenue intelligence for mid-market and enterprise sales organisations.

4. WEKA

HQ: San Jose, US (with roots in Tel Aviv, Israel)

Industry: High-performance data storage for AI

India presence: 50 employees

Data technology company WEKA’s India team focuses on deep engineering for AI data infrastructure, working on performance optimisation, storage platform features, and testing for GPU-intensive AI and analytics workloads.

5. Instabase

HQ: San Francisco, US

Industry: Enterprise automation and document AI

India presence: 69 employees

Fintech enabler Instabase is building its platform and AI engineering capabilities in India for document automation. Teams work on data extraction, workflow orchestration, and integrations for large enterprises in finance, insurance, and other document-heavy sectors.

6. SeekOut

HQ: Bellevue, US

Industry: Recruiting and HR technology

India presence: 53 employees

Agentic AI recruiting platform SeekOut’s India centre supports product engineering and ML development for candidate search, ranking, and matching. The focus extends to enterprise workflows, integrations, and platform reliability at scale.

7. Alkira

HQ: San Jose, US

Industry: Cloud networking and network-as-a-service

India presence: 51 employees

Network infrastructure-as-a-service platform Alkira is building core network software engineering capabilities in India, including data plane and packet-forwarding work. The team also supports platform reliability and integrations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

8. Mbanq

HQ: Miami, US

Industry: Fintech infrastructure and BaaS

India presence: 42 employees

Fintech Mbanq’s India operations focus on platform engineering and product delivery for its banking-as-a-service stack, covering APIs, integrations, and regulated core banking infrastructure for fintechs and financial institutions.

9. Graphcore

HQ: Bristol, UK

Industry: AI accelerator chips

India presence: 26 employees (early stage)

Following its acquisition by SoftBank Group, semiconductor company Graphcore is setting up an R&D-heavy India centre focused on chip architecture, design verification, and supporting software for next-generation AI accelerators, with plans to scale hiring in Bengaluru.

10. Adyen

HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Industry: Payments and payment processing

India presence: 133 employees

Fintech Adyen’s Bengaluru tech hub is building payment product engineering capabilities, including local payment method integrations, transaction optimisation, and platform development supporting global enterprise merchants.

11. SiFive

HQ: San Mateo, US

 Industry: Semiconductor IP and RISC-V CPU design

India presence: 128 employees

Fabless semiconductor company SiFive’s India centre is a core chip design and verification hub, working on RISC-V CPU cores, verification, and related engineering. The team plays a critical role in SiFive’s global IP development roadmap.

12. Orbia

HQ: Mexico City, Mexico

Industry: Manufacturing

India presence: 50 employees

Identity modernisation is one of the major focus areas, with a significant portion of the speciality chemicals solutions company Orbia’s identity team based in India. The team is actively exploring agentic AI and reassessing legacy IAM (identity and access management) stacks.