Bangalore, dubbed the ‘Silicon Valley of India,’ is the de facto leader of the country’s IT sector. With more than a dozen IT parks, a rich startup ecosystem and thousands of IT firms, the city is responsible for roughly 40 percent of India’s total IT exports.
It also employs the most industry professionals in the country, at about 4.8 million workers. And, as the $110 billion sector expands, this number is expected to double over the next few years.
Thanks to its many special economic zones, Bangalore-based companies enjoy hefty tax relaxations and financial incentives, which may be why 80 percent of all global IT offices — including the following companies — call it home.
Top IT Companies in Bangalore
- SAP
- Intuit
- Cisco
- Adobe
- Infosys
- Wipro
- Tata Consultancy Services
Top IT Companies in Bangalore
The German multinational software corporation is known for its enterprise-grade, data-processing solutions that help businesses manage operations and customer relations. The world’s leading ERP vendor employs a 43,000-person workforce in 17 countries, selling database software and cloud-engineered systems suites that unify human capital, customer experience, product lifecycle and supply chain management onto one platform. Its Bangalore branch is responsible for producing 40 percent of SAP’s entire research and development exports. In 2023, the IT company broke ground on a second Bangalore-based branch, with a 41-acre campus designed to bring 15,000 new jobs to the city.
Celonis uses process mining and AI to enhance business efficiency. Their platform offers a digital twin of end-to-end processes, aiming to enable companies to improve cash flow and customer experience, and reduce carbon emissions by revealing hidden value and providing a unified view of business operations.
Tech Mahindra provides consulting and systems integration in more than 90 countries. Focused on next-generation technologies like AI, 5G, IoT and quantum computing, the company helps clients achieve scale and speed simultaneously. Tech Mahindra is headquartered in Pune, India, and it employs more than 148,000 people around the globe.
Capgemini employs over 340,000 people across 50 countries. Its work includes acting as a strategic partner to clients, providing services ranging from strategy and design to day-to-day operations management. Capgemini offers products and services in cloud, data, AI, software, digital engineering and platforms.
Arrow Electronics makes electronic components that are used in a wide range of consumer and industrial products including batteries, electromechanical devices, capacitors, motors and digital memory devices. Arrow components power many branded network gateway products that connect different IT networks by translating from protocol to protocol. The company employs a local team with offices in Bangalore.
Global IT and consulting services company Infosys is the second largest India-based IT firm, with $18 billion in revenue and more than 328,000 employees. This ‘super six’ tech leader assists more than 1,800 clients execute a complete digital transformation using AI-powered solutions. Operating out of 56 countries, its services include app development, system integration, cloud migration and deployment, data analytics and cybersecurity. Headquartered from an 81-acre campus featuring a glass pyramid media center in Bangalore, Infosys is the only Indian company to make Time’s top 100 ‘world’s best companies’ list in 2023. In total, there are 12 Infosys offices across the city.
IBM is an American multinational IT company best known today for its enterprise technology offerings including artificial intelligence, cloud computing and consulting services. The company’s sizeable India operation is headquartered in Bangalore.
Headquartered in Ireland, this IT and consultancy firm is the largest by company size — employing a workforce of more than 733,000 employees. Founded in 1989, Accenture has grown to generate $64 billion in revenue, offering strategy and consultancy services, app development, business process outsourcing as well as security, cloud, data and analytics solutions. Recently the company announced a $3 billion, three-year plan to optimize its data and AI practices, which includes doubling its Bangalore-based staff to 80,000 industry professionals.
Intuit is a fintech software company that serves over 100 million customers globally with its line of financial, accounting and tax preparation products. Its portfolio includes tax preparation app TurboTax, small business accounting program QuickBooks, credit monitoring service Credit Karma and automated email marketing platform Mailchimp. The $14.4 billion-in-revenue company employs 17,300 employees in nine different countries, and has been recognized as a ‘best company to work for’ for fourteen consecutive years in a row.
Cisco develops and manufactures networking hardware, software and related IT services. The California-based conglomerate is a major facilitator of information exchange and internet connectivity as its expansive line of products — from routers, switches and wireless tech to firewalls and servers — are used by businesses, service providers and government bodies worldwide. Since its start in 1984, Cisco has acquired over 200 firms as it zeros in on emerging technologies such as AI, 5G wireless, data infrastructure and cybersecurity. Today, it’s worth over $51 billion in revenue and employs more than 83,000 people.
Global technology and consulting company Mindtree offers its clients services and support for cloud infrastructure, data analytics, product engineering as well as AI and automation consulting. Founded in 1999, Mindtree is headquartered in Bangalore with offices across India. It employs more than 81,000 people across 30 countries.
Applied technology services company Mphasis is headquartered in Bangalore and has sales and delivery centers in more than 25 countries. It offers infrastructure technology, including application development, integration and management services.The company’s recently launched division, Mphasis.ai, focuses on modernizing software and applications through the power of artificial intelligence.
HP operates in more than 170 countries, offering devices, services and subscriptions for personal computing, printing and gaming. HP is currently working to integrate AI capability into its home printer products, allowing consumers to integrate custom layouts and personalized images. The company’s Bangalore location houses its Indian headquarters.
Another IT tech giant based in Bangalore, Wipro Limited is the country’s third largest IT company, worth $11.3 billion in revenue and a company size of 245,000 employees across 65 countries. Originally founded as a vegetable oil manufacturer in 1945, the company has since become a primary provider of cloud computing, cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI, robotics and data analytics to a diverse customer base across various industries. For 10 consecutive years, Wipro has been recognized as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute.
Cognizant provides digital products and platforms, marketing services and big data services to clients across industries from automotive to healthcare. The company uses a consultative approach to tailor its services to each company’s needs. Founded in the U.S. in 1994, Cognizant has four branches in Bangalore.
Headquartered in India, HCLTech’s Bangalore location is one of 19 offices across the globe. The company provides software and infrastructure services, including automation, business process services, cybersecurity and AI. HCLTech’s clients include businesses in the financial services, healthcare, life sciences, retail and public services sectors.
The world’s largest tech company, worth $1.3 trillion in market cap, specializes in internet-related services and products. Beyond its flagship search engine, Google has become a leader in artificial intelligence, adtech, cloud computing, e-commerce and consumer electronics. Of its four Indian offices, the California-headquartered company has two based in Bangalore, as well as an AI-focused research lab. With 135,000 full-time employees in total, Google is set to expand its presence in India with a $10 billion investment and plans to double its company size.
Cisco Meraki offers cloud-controlled IT network management. From its centralized operations hub, the company can provide Wi-Fi, routing, security and other networking tech on a commercial scale, and can also manage networks of IoT devices like smart cameras and sensors. In Bangalore, the company is building its presence through targeted hires across technical positions.
Best known for its namesake multi-model database management system, the American computer tech corporation sells software, hardware and cloud-based services. Oracle uses a single database approach that’s unique in the way it stores, organizes and retrieves data by type while keeping the relationships between various types intact. It also owns programming language platform Java and relational database management system MySQL, which powers applications like Facebook, Twitter and Netflix. The company first landed in Bangalore in 2017, and, along with other SaaS-sector businesses, is enjoying a market upswing, recently doubling its India-based clientele to 20,000.
With more than 615,000 employees across 46 countries, Tata Consultancy Services is India’s largest IT tech company. And, at a valuation of $43 billion and market cap of $159 billion, it’s been named the country’s most valuable firm overall. Its suite of software services include app development, consulting, information security, infrastructure support and network connectivity to its clients in banking, finance and insurance as well as retail, communications and healthcare. In 2023, TCS announced plans to hire 40,000 recent graduates in the upcoming year, and was one of two IT agencies ranked on Fortune’s 2023 list of the world’s most admired companies.
This software-as-a-service provider develops multimedia software for content creation. Adobe’s line of creative cloud products, like image-editing program Adobe Photoshop, vector-based illustration app Adobe Illustrator and graphic design software Adobe InDesign, have become industry standard tools. Of its 29,000 global employees, 7,800 of them spread across five India-based campuses, making the country home to Adobe’s largest employee base outside of the United States. And, in 2023, the company announced the opening of a new office tower in Bangalore to onboard another 2,000 workers.
