Clumio sets up R&D centre in Bengaluru

Team Udayavani, May 28, 2020, 2:38 PM IST

Bengaluru: US-based tech firm Clumio on Thursday said it has set up a research and development (R&D) centre in Bengaluru to begin operations in India.

Clumio provides a secure backup as a service for enterprises that reduces the cost and replaces the complexity of managing data across all clouds. Headquartered in California, the startup was co-founded in 2017 by Poojan Kumar, Kaustubh Patil and Woon Jung, and has raised USD 186 million in funding till date.

“The (Bengaluru) centre will be an integral part of Clumio”s capability to build and deliver services on its cutting-edge platform built on AWS. Clumio leverages the most modern cloud capabilities, including more than 10 major AWS services, to ensure it meets the current and future backup requirements of the most demanding enterprises,” a statement said.

The company has 150 employees globally and has an R&D centre in the US. Apart from supporting the global team, the India centre will drive front-end innovation and research to build cloud solutions from the ground up.

“The engineering teams will play an integral part in product development and building best-in-class technology solutions. To enable this, Clumio drives an entrepreneurial mind-set giving employees complete responsibility and fosters a culture of innovation,” the statement said.

Clumio is hiring for roles across software engineering, cloud operations and customer support in India. It has 34 employees in India and is planning to have more than 70 employees by the end of 2020, it added.

“India has a huge talent pool in technology and it is only growing…Clumio has already assembled senior engineers with this pivot ambition and they are paving the way for the next generation to directly jump to the cloud,” Sandeep Soni, GM and Vice President of Engineering, India operations at Clumio, said.