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Well-known IT giants-
- Infosys
- Wipro
- TCS
- Tech Mahindra
- Amazon
- Samsung
- HCL
- Cognizant
- IBM
- Intel
- L&T Infotech
- Microsoft
- Siemens
- Deloitte
- Dell
- HP
- Mindtree
- Philips
- Mphasis
Have you ever wondered why Bangalore is known as the Information and Technology (IT) capital of India? Or ever thought to know how many IT hubs are placed in the capital of Karnataka? The numbers are far beyond one’s imagination. In 2014, there were around 67000 registered IT companies located only in Bangalore. Out of which, only 12000 companies work full time. Wonder why it is known as the Silicon Valley of India!
IT Companies in Bangalore, Silicon Valley of India
Here is the list of some well-known IT giants that are located in Bangalore-
1) Infosys is powered by intellect and driven by values!
Founder – Narayana Murthy
Founded in – 1981
Location – Electronic City, Phase II
Information Systems is one of the leading outsourcing companies in India. It is the main source of attraction for freshers. Why? Because it symbolises quintessential middle-class values of sharing and service. It has over 52000 employees across the globe providing the best IT services. To achieve objectives in an environment of fairness, honesty and courtesy towards clients, employees, vendors and society, is the leading mission of Infosys.
2) Apply your thoughts on Wipro!
Founder – Mohamed Premji
Founded in – 1945
Location – Sarjapur
Western India Products, known as Wipro, has started its journey from a vegetable and oil manufacturing unit. It rapidly became a global gamut of computing and business solutions. With over 2 lakh employees across 110 countries and a turnover in billions, Wipro has witnessed steady growth in the last decade. It has partnered with over 500+ companies to provide them with the latest IT and R&D services.
3) TCS builds on beliefs!
Founder – FC Kohli, JRD Tata
Founded in – 1968
Location – Whitefield
Tata Consultancy Services was made to fulfil the demand for computer services as a start-up by the Tata Sons. It is highly rated by the workers for its advancement and job security. TCS tends to carry forward the five values, viz. integrity, responsibility, excellence, pioneering and unity, to provide the best software services to the world. With a huge market capitalization, it is placed as one of the valuable IT giants in the country.
4. Tech Mahindra connects the world by connecting experiences.
Founder – Anand Mahindra
Founded in – 1986
Location – Electronic City, Phase II
Do you remember the Satyam scandal of 2008-09? FYI, Tech Mahindra was the company that took 31% stakes in the company, beating its rival, L&T. And after that biggest merger of the decade, it never stopped growing. With over 1.25 lakh employees, total equity of ₹25000 crores, net revenue of ₹40000 crores, and many more mind-boggling numbers, Tech Mahindra has become one of the largest IT outsourcing consulting companies. It is famous for its good working environment. That is why freshers eye on getting an experience to work in this company for once in their life.
5) Amazon works hard, has fun and makes history!
Founder – Jeff Bezos
Founded in – 1994
Location – Malleshwaram
Amazon is one of the leading multinational companies in India that deals in e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and now, online education. It started its journey with an online market of books, which later turned into selling/buying almost every household item, including eatables. It is expanding its business via OTT platforms, Audible and Prime memberships. Amazon has entered logistics, digital payments and lockers to strengthen their shopping business.
6) ‘Don’t be an evil’, warns Google.
Founder – Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Founded in – 1998
Location – Old Madras Road
Everyone must be familiar with the word Google, including toddlers. A leading subsidiary of Alphabet, Google has become the top-most search engine in the world. It offers a wide range of online services like Docs, Gmail, Drive, Photos, Meet, Sheets, Slides, Translate, Duo, etc., to make the internet life easy and productive. Headquartered in California, it receives money from various investors, like Amazon. Its current CEO, Sundar Pichai, is of Indian origin.
7) Create the future and inspire the world with Samsung!
Founder – Lee Byung-Chul
Founded in – 1938
Location – Marathahalli
A trading-turned-electronic industry in South Korea, Samsung has become a leading technology and consumer electronics company. From refrigerators to smartphones, from chips to sensors, it manufactures all the electronic goods and exports them to other parts of the world. Nokia has ruled the phone market since 1998. Samsung overtook Nokia in 2012 as the largest mobile maker. Quite an achievement! It has launched the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing unit in Noida, India.
8) It’s employees first, customers second for HCL!
Founder – Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra
Founded in – 1976
Location – Whitefield
With a market capitalization of over 20 billion dollars, Hindustan Computers Limited offers services in various sectors, like automotive, banking, energy, insurance, life sciences, oil and gas, telecom, transportation, logistics and many more. It has offices spread across 50 countries on the globe. In 2019, it acquired a few products of IBM, like AppScan, BigFix, Commerce, Digital Experience, Connections, Notes Domino and Unica. Many young freshers want to work once in the R&D of this software giant.
9) Cognizant has a passion for building strong businesses!
Founder – Kumar Mahadev, Francis D’Souza
Founded in – 1994
Location – C.V.Raman Nagar
Cognizant is ranked amongst the top data and AI providers. It was ranked 19th in the Forbes 2020 list of the World’s Best Employers. It has partnered with various organisations to provide a better human experience to its customers. It is expanding its digital capabilities with intelligent process automation for speed, productivity and innovation.
10) Think IBM, think!
Founder – Charles Flint
Founded in – 1911
Location – Bannerghatta Main Road
International Business Machines Corporation still holds the record for most annual American patents ever generated by a business. Do you know the ATM you use was invented by whom? Add floppy drives, hard drives, SQL, DRAM to the list too. Well, it was none other than IBM. It has always focused on higher-value and more profitable products. Working in this Big Blue is a dream of many youngsters.
11) ‘Intel Inside!’
Founder – Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce
Founded in – 1968
Location – Bellandur
The largest manufacturer of microprocessors and chipsets is Intel. It also produces motherboards, integrated circuits, graphic cards, embedded processors and every heart and soul of personal computers. It currently deals in hardware components, programmable semiconductors, retails, transportations, solid-state drives and various storage platforms. Its major rival is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which also builds PC chipsets. Intel has a core R&D team that everyone eyes for getting a job in.
12) Let L&T Infotech solve your problems!
Founder – AM Naik, Sanjay Jalona
Founded in – 1996
Location – Cubbon road
Larsen and Toubro Infotech Limited comes under top-10 IT giants in India. It is a maturity level 5 organisation. It has offices in over 30 countries, providing solutions to every digital problem. It is certified as a great place to work by the US. It deals in blockchains, big data and the internet of things, which is quite popular these days.
13) Your potential and passion should be next to Microsoft.
Founder – Bill Gates, Paul Allen
Founded in – 1975
Location – Bellandur, Hebbal
The PC/laptop features Windows operating system, made by Microsoft. It has also made Xbox, Azure, Shop Surface and many more services for a perfect home or business. Its CEO, Satya Nadella, is also of Indian origin. Microsoft acquired Nokia’s mobile company in 2013 and launched the famous Lumia series with a Windows operating system. However, that didn’t work and got ruined by present-favourite OS, Android.
14) Siemens is the ingenuity for life.
Founder – Werner von Siemens, Johann Georg Halske
Founded in – 1847
Location – Electronic City
A German multinational corporation, Siemens, is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment. In 2001, it started providing consultancy and engineering services after a merger with Chemtech Group of Brazil. What’s then? It covers all the categories, like automation, plant-related products, energy-related products, logistics and buildings, where it supplies goods to other parts of the globe.
15) Deloitte is always one step ahead.
Founder – William Welch Deloitte
Founded in – 1845
Location – Old airport road
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is one of the Big Four professional services, headquartered in London. It provides financial advisory, risk advisory, audit, and consulting and tax services globally. Indians want to work in this organisation to gain experience in finance and software.
16) Dell has the power to do more. Do you?
Founder – Michal S. Dell
Founded in – 1984
Location – Varthur Hobli
Dell was a pure hardware manufacturer until 2009. After acquiring Perot Systems, it entered the market of IT services. It then expanded its business in networking systems, storage, and offers complete computer solutions to its customers. It is the largest vendor of PCs after Lenovo and HP. It has also started growing in cloud computing.
17) HP makes what it makes and invents to reinvent. Got it?
Founder – David Packard, Bill Hewlett
Founded in – 1939
Location – Electronic City, Phase II
This Hewlett-Packard Company is headquartered in California and provides hardware components to every enterprise. It started its journey after signing a testing and measuring instrument deal with Walt Disney. After that, it entered the market, delivering services in computing, networking and data storage.
18) Mindtree’s welcome-to-possible world!
Founder – Subroto Bagchi, Krishnakumar Natarajan, Ashok Soota, Anjan Lahiri
Founded in – 1999
Location – Mysore road
Mindtree is a part of the L&T Group, headquartered in Bangalore, which deals in data analytics, cloud computing, digital transformation, e-commerce and mobile applications. It has 43 offices in over 18 countries. Every computer science student wants to work in either of these departments of Mindtree- Digital Services, Enterprise Application Integration, Application Development and Maintenance, Data Analytics, Business Process Management.
19) Philips links innovation and you with sense and simplicity.
Founder – Frederik Philips
Founded in – 1891
Location – Nagavara
Philips is a Dutch company that makes products under three divisions- personal health, diagnosis and treatment, and electronics and domestic appliances. It is well-known for its safe and budget-friendly household products. It is the leading brand of manufacturing lighting products.
20) Mphasis will unleash the next!
Founder – Jerry Rao, Jeroen Tas
Founded in – 1998
Location – CV Raman Nagar
It provides architectural guidance, infrastructure technology and various outsourcing services to different parts of the world. It also serves logistics, telecom, financial and IT services. It has now become one of the leading IT industries in India after listing on the National Stock Exchange in 2006.
Well, we cannot inform you about every organization. To know about other IT companies in Bangalore, take the help of company no. 6! Kudos!