GlobalLogic
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GlobalLogic is an offshore software R&D
Offshore software R&D
Offshore Software R&D is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing. In this context, it refers to the offshore development phase of a software...

 services company that was founded in 2000 by Rajul Garg, Sanjay Singh, Manoj Agarwala and Tarun Upadhyay and has headquarters in McLean, Virginia
McLean, Virginia
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 and San Jose, California
San Jose, California
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. It is a privately held company funded by New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

, Westbridge Capital, Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

, and New Atlantic Ventures. GlobalLogic provides software product design
Product design
-Introduction:Product design is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business or enterprise to its customers. It is concerned with the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products.Product designers conceptualize and...

, product development, quality assurance
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance, or QA for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process...

, product support
Product support
Product support is a service provided by many retailers of various products, primarily electronics, that provides the end-user with a resource for information regarding the product, and help if the product should malfunction...

 and consulting services. The company is also involved in telecommunications, wireless products and mobile devices. Some companies use GlobalLogic to outsource
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is the process of contracting a business function to someone else.-Overview:The term outsourcing is used inconsistently but usually involves the contracting out of a business function - commonly one previously performed in-house - to an external provider...

 the production of their own primary products.

Company overview

GlobalLogic was initially founded as 'Induslogic' in 2000, with headquarters in Vienna, Virginia
Virginia
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, a delivery center in Noida, India, and funding from New Atlantic Ventures. GlobalLogic received Series B Venture round funding
Venture round
A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the primary stimuli for the development of new companies...

 of $12.5M from Westbridge Capital and New Enterprise Associates in 2006. and acquired Lambent Technologies, an offshore software R&D
Offshore software R&D
Offshore Software R&D is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing. In this context, it refers to the offshore development phase of a software...

 services firm based in Nagpur, India. Induslogic became GlobalLogic after its merger with Bonus Technology, an offshore software R&D
Offshore software R&D
Offshore Software R&D is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing. In this context, it refers to the offshore development phase of a software...

 services firm based in New Jersey with operations out of Kyiv, Ukraine and specializing in mobile and telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 technologies. In 2007, GlobalLogic opened delivery centers in Beijing, China.

In 2008, GlobalLogic opened an office in London, England and named Mike Daniels as Chairman of the Board. The company received $29.5M in Series C venture round funding from Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

, New Atlantic Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. In 2009, GlobalLogic partnered with LumenData, a product development and services firm focused on enterprise data management, to open a delivery center in Bangalore, India. The company also acquired two offshore software R&D
Offshore software R&D
Offshore Software R&D is provision of software development services by an external supplier positioned in a country that is geographically remote from the client enterprise; a type of offshore outsourcing. In this context, it refers to the offshore development phase of a software...

 services firms: InterObject and Cubika. InterObject is based in Ramat Gan, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and specializes in embedded software
Embedded software
Embedded software is computer software that plays an integral role in the electronics it is supplied with.Embedded software's principal role is not Information technology , but rather the interaction with the physical world. It's written for machines that are not, first and foremost, computers...

, mobile and streaming media
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

 products. In 2010, GlobalLogic received funding from Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

 and opens an office in Frankfurt, Germany to expand its operations in Western Europe.

In 2011, GlobalLogic opened an office in Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

 to expand its operations in South America. The company acquired Rofous Software, a content engineering firm headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company also acquired Method Incorporated
Method Incorporated
Method Incorporated is a brand experience agency with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.-History:Method, Inc. is a brand experience agency created in 1999 by Kevin Farnham, David Lipkin, Patrick Newbery, Mike Abbink, and Meng Mantasoot...

, a brand experience agency.

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