Several startups and prominent multinational companies are setting up technology and innovation centers in India, with plans to hire hundreds.
British food delivery startup Deliveroo has set up its first India engineering center in Hyderabad – the company’s largest tech hub outside the UK. The company plans to hire 150 engineers by 2022 end and scale up the number gradually.
The Hyderabad center, which will be a core part of Deliveroo’s global tech team, will be its largest engineering center outside of the UK. The London-headquartered unicorn currently has a global headcount of about 800, which it plans to ramp up to about 1,250 by 2022 end.
Online travel platform Airbnb will open a new technology hub in Bengaluru. The travel-tech unicorn will hire a few hundred people to begin with, followed by an expanded footprint in the future.
“India is an incredibly important market for Airbnb. The opening of this technology hub will further our ongoing investment in the nation and is testament to our long-term vision for growing our business locally into the future,” Airbnb Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Nathan Blecharczyk said.
Fortune 500 company 3M – whose 60,000 products are used in homes, businesses, hospitals and other industries – is adding a tech hub in Bengaluru to accelerate its digital charter. The plan is to hire 1,000 people in the first 18 months and ramp up that number going forward.
Shaun Braun, SVP – digital transformation at 3M, said the tech hub in Bengaluru ties into the company’s agenda of transforming into a digitally-connected one that combines its material and digital sciences through advanced capabilities to solve customer challenges. “Our tech center of excellence in Bengaluru is the cornerstone to fully realizing this vision,” he said.
German commercial vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck has announced the launch of a new global innovation center in Bengaluru. The facility – Daimler Truck’s largest outside Germany – will see the engineering team focus on areas such as powertrain engineering, software development for electronic control units, and computer-aided engineering.
Daimler Truck Holding AG (Daimler Truck) was formed as an independent company in December last year focusing on trucks and buses, and it decided to create such a dedicated facility to create an epicenter for future innovations and leverage the talent capabilities in the region, it said.
(Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com)