CrashPlan, a global data protection and cyber resilience leader, is expanding its growth plan in India by building on a large-scale expansion of its Global Capability Center (GCC) in Bengaluru. This is a strategic action that highlights the desire by the company to place India as a strategic node in terms of innovation and commercial development. With a current revenue of slightly less than $100 million across the globe, the company is aiming for the growth of its revenues by double digits within the next two years to come, with India being the pivotal point of fulfilling this goal. CEO Dan Beer has been keen on a growth strategy in India, APAC, and the Middle East since assuming office in April 2025.

Doubling the workforce and innovation

The short-term and key target of this expansion is a significant addition to the India headcount. Since it acquired Bengaluru-based company Parablu in 2024, CrashPlan has already doubled its Indian workforce and has approximately 100 employees. The company will eventually increase the number of workers once more as Bengaluru GCC becomes a full-fledged global hub. This vast amount of ambitious hiring will be concentrated in Bengaluru since the firm will be transformed into an AI-enabled data protection company. The solutions offered by CrashPlan are aimed at wide enterprise usage, targeting startups but also large corporations, and the analytics unicorn Fractal Analytics is one of the existing Indian customers.

The new Bengaluru GCC is a vision of a high-impact innovation hub, not just a traditional support function. It will play a role as a center of core capability functions within the area of engineering, sales, and support; however, it will have the biggest mandate in terms of pioneering AI innovation and product development, and Research and Development (R&D). The company is building AI and conversational services on secure data that enables enterprises to communicate with their data without undergoing lengthy recovery procedures. This conversion into an AI-driven data protection organization is one of the pillars of its India strategy.

Dan Beer, the CEO, said, “We are focusing on India expansion and Bengaluru will be key to performing various important capability functions as we target a significant share of the Indian market. Bulk of our hiring will be in Bengaluru as we move towards becoming an AI-enabled data protection company.”

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Expansion and market focus

The acquisition of Parablu in 2024 set the stage for the rapid growth of CrashPlan. This was a strategic move that has provided a solid, already formed base in the Indian technology ecosystem, which the company does not need to establish its India capabilities afresh. It is a natural acquisition that enables CrashPlan to secure information, build AI services, broaden its enterprise offerings, and create synergies in rapid response to R&D, IT, sales, compliance, and marketing.

CrashPlan is determined to realize continued growth of revenue in the 2-digit range, which will be driven by profitability. The resulting profitability will enable the company to invest back into talent, infrastructure, and innovation. Besides the organic growth, the firm is equally committed to making other acquisitions in India, which directly relate to its business in terms of synergies.

The product portfolio growth will involve AI-driven data services and protection of Microsoft 365, cloud servers, virtual machines, and endpoint protection. Although the firm has one office in Bengaluru, to ensure that the company has close customer relationships, the sales staff has offices in the entire country of India and the United Arab Emirates. The differentiation CrashPlan can make is that it has a cloud-native SaaS platform that provides a modern, adaptable alternative to traditional on-premise solutions.

Conclusion

The expansion of the workforce by CrashPlan through the expansion of Bengaluru GCC makes the city a pivotal hub of global technology and innovation. Raising the stakes in the high-skilled talent source in Bengaluru, CrashPlan is converting its Indian operations into a strategic center in the field of engineering, R&D, and AI innovation. The action is critical to realising its ambitious double-digit growth objective and its transition into an AI-enabled company in data protection, thus stepping up its competitive advantage in the global cyber resilience industry.