Bengaluru, October 2025.

Sattva Group, one of India’s leading real estate and infrastructure developers, has in partnership with Innovalus announced the launch of GCCBase, a strategic platform designed to help multinational companies set up and scale Global Capability Centres (GCCs) across India.

Built on Sattva’s infrastructure expertise and Innovalus’s operational excellence, GCCBase delivers a unified, end-to-end ecosystem for global enterprises. The launch marks a pivotal moment in India’s evolution from a cost-efficient destination to a global hub for innovation, engineering, and digital transformation. Leveraging deep local expertise, strategic partnerships, and industry intelligence, GCCBase aims to redefine how global businesses establish and scale in India, creating a seamless, efficient, and high-impact GCC expansion journey.

The timing couldn’t be more critical. India has moved far beyond its reputation as a cost-efficient destination to emerge as the world’s most vibrant hub for innovation, engineering, and digital transformation. Global corporations are now reimagining their India strategy, seeing it not as a back office, but as an innovation powerhouse and strategic growth engine. GCCBase embodies this shift, offering a unified, technology-enabled ecosystem that empowers global enterprises to build, scale, and operate seamlessly in India.

India today hosts more than 1,600 Global Capability Centres, employing over two million professionals and generating upwards of USD 46 billion in annual economic value. These centres are no longer limited to transactional processes. They now lead global mandates in product design, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced analytics.

Industry estimates suggest India could surpass 2,500 GCCs by 2030, representing a USD 110 billion opportunity and creating an additional one million high-skill jobs. According to NASSCOM, over 60 percent of the world’s top 2000 corporations either already operate or plan to set up GCCs in India, attracted by its talent depth, digital infrastructure and policy stability.

Despite this momentum, setting up a GCC remains unnecessarily complex, navigating multiple stakeholders across real estate, compliance, talent acquisition, and operational governance. Companies want to focus on innovation, not paperwork. GCCBase bridges this gap by institutionalizing the setup process and creating a single, accountable platform that delivers speed, transparency and compliance.

India has moved from being the world’s back office to becoming its innovation engine,” said Shivam Agarwal, Vice President, Strategic Growth, Sattva Group. “The question now isn’t whether to build in India—it’s how to do it right. Companies are tired of the complexity, the opacity, the endless coordination across dozens of vendors. GCCBase changes that equation. We’ve built an end-to-end platform that takes you from day zero to full operational maturity with transparency, speed, and governance. For us at Sattva, this is about more than real estate. It’s about building the infrastructure both physical and institutional that powers India’s next chapter as a global innovation leader. We are making it radically simpler to do business here, and that’s what will unlock the next wave of growth”

The launch of GCCBase also marks the debut of India’s first “Space-to-Scale” platform, a unified model that brings together Grade-A real estate, pod-based GCC delivery, and a data-driven governance layer, all packaged within a single contract, SLA, and dashboard. This integrated structure eliminates the operational friction that global enterprises often face when establishing their India operations, allowing them to focus on business outcomes from day one.

At its core, GCCBase introduces a graduated, modular framework that adapts to each company’s growth stage. Its Vertical-Specific Micro-GCC Pods (20–75 FTEs) can go live within 90 days, enabling clients to establish fully functional teams in areas such as Generative AI Design Studios, Feature Accelerator Pods, Transformation Pods, and SOC & Threat-Hunting Pods. Each micro-GCC is designed for quick activation, compliance alignment, and productivity from day zero.

As the client’s operations expand, the Graduated Road-Map allows a smooth transition from a micro-GCC pod to a full-scale captive centre all while retaining the same platform, governance tools, and real estate network. This “Space-to-Scale” model ensures speed, consistency, and scalability without the need for redundant reinvestment or multiple vendors.

Unlike traditional GCC advisory or brokerage models, GCCBase assumes full delivery accountability, combining Sattva Group’s institutional credibility with Innovalus’s decade-long operational expertise. The result is an execution-driven, tech-enabled ecosystem that gives clients a single accountable partner from incorporation to operational maturity.

With over three decades of experience in creating and managing premium business environments for Fortune 500 companies, technology leaders, and innovation-driven enterprises, Sattva Group has been the trusted home for global corporations building and scaling in India. Its diversified portfolio spans 78 million sq. ft. of premium developments, with an additional 71+ million sq. ft. under construction across major cities. The Group recently achieved a landmark milestone with the listing of India’s largest office REIT, Knowledge Realty Trust (KRT) co-sponsored with its long-term partner, Blackstone. Encompassing 46 million sq. ft. of Grade A office assets across six cities, KRT stands as India’s most geographically diversified REIT and a testament to Sattva’s leadership in shaping the nation’s institutional real estate landscape.

GCCBase will initially focus on high-growth sectors such as technology, banking and financial services, healthcare and engineering, which together account for nearly 70 percent of India’s GCC footprint. The platform supports enterprises across every stage of their journey, from entity incorporation to operational maturity ensuring governance, consistency and long-term value creation.

“The momentum is undeniable. We are seeing increasing interest from companies of all sizes; from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 giants that want to build in India,” said Vishal Vijay, Chief Executive Officer of GCCBase. “What’s exciting is how the conversation has evolved. Five years ago, companies came to India to save money. Today, they are coming to win. They are setting up research labs, product engineering teams, and innovation centers. The GCC is becoming the strategic core, not the cost center. Our endeavor is to make that transition as seamless as possible and to help companies unlock value faster than they thought possible”

Aligned with the Government of India’s focus on ease of doing business and digital-first operations, GCCBase integrates program management tools, compliance modules and real-time dashboards to enhance predictability and decision-making. It is also designed to help enterprises explore new growth corridors beyond traditional metros, tapping into India’s expanding talent clusters in emerging business regions.

By combining infrastructure excellence with digital oversight, GCCBase aims to attract global investment, generate high-value employment and reinforce India’s standing as the most trusted and capable hub for enterprise innovation.  As India consolidates its position as “the office to the world” GCCBase stands as a timely and strategic catalyst empowering multinational companies to build, innovate and lead from India with confidence and purpose.