Global Capability Center (GCC) in India

Your global capability center in India, for US software companies

Proxsoft sets up and runs your global capability center in India, inside a company you own. Your team works only for you. We’ll handle the paperwork, payroll, office and insurance.

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Dedicated engineering team at a Global Capability Center in India.

What is a global capability center (GCC)?

A global capability center (GCC) is a team in India that works only for your company, inside an Indian company you own. Proxsoft registers the company, helps you hire, and runs payroll, the office, insurance and compliance. You direct the work and you keep the code. It isn’t outsourcing, because nobody else’s clients share your team.

Here’s the difference in one sentence. You aren’t renting a vendor’s people. You’re building your own team, in your own company, and somebody else does the admin.

Take a US software company with eight engineers that wants ten more. It has no India entity, and no HR there either. So it sets up its own India company and its own team. Those engineers work on its product and nothing else.

India’s GCC Landscape

Zinnov–Nasscom GCC Landscape in India 2026 · Data as of March 2026

2,117

Global capability centers

2.36M

People employed

32%

Growth since FY2021

583

Mid-market GCCs

GCC or offshore development center: what is the difference?

The difference is who owns what. With a global capability center (GCC), you own the Indian company, and it employs your team. With an offshore development center, the vendor owns the company and employs the staff.

Global capability center

Offshore development center

Who owns the India company

You do

The vendor

Who employs the team

Your India company

The vendor

Can the team work for other clients

Sometimes

Where the IP sits

With you

Assigned to you by contract

Effort at the start

Higher

Lower

Best when

You want your own team for the long term

You want the vendor to own the team and the admin

Who it’s for?

It’s for

US software and SaaS companies with roughly 5 to 50 engineers

Teams that want their own people in India, not a vendor’s bench

Companies with no India entity and nobody doing HR there

Decisions usually made by a CEO, COO, CTO, VP Engineering or CFO

It isn’t for

Large enterprises that want hundreds of seats

Teams that only need contractors for a few months

Anyone who wants to hand over the work as well as the admin

How GCC setup in India works?

Setting up a global capability center in India runs in four stages. You agree the roles and the team size. We register your Indian company. We run the hiring and you pick who joins. Then we operate payroll, the office and insurance, while you direct the work.

Plan the team

We’ll agree the roles, the team size and a start date with you.

Set up your India company

We register the entity and get its compliance running.

Hire with you

We’ll find the candidates. You decide who joins.

Run it for you

We handle payroll, the office and insurance. You direct the work.

What we handle, and what you control?

We handle

Company setup and ongoing compliance

Payroll and statutory filings

Office space

Insurance

You control

Who gets hired

What the team works on, day to day

Your code, your product and your IP

Whether the team grows, and how fast

Your IP stays yours

Your GCC is your own company, and your team works only on your product. No Proxsoft employee works on your IP, and your NDA is protected. The exact terms go in your contract.

Two ways to work with us

Managed GCC

You own the company and the team. We’ll run payroll, the office, insurance and compliance, ongoing.

Build, operate, transfer

We build the center and run it for an agreed period. Then we hand the running of it to you. Terms are set case by case.

Either way the entity’s yours from day one. The only question’s who operates it.

Questions

Who owns the team and the code?

Your India company employs the team. The work belongs to you. Exact terms are set in the contract.

Why do I need a separate company?

It’s what makes the team yours rather than a supplier’s. It keeps contracts and IP clean. And it means you aren’t renegotiating ownership later.

What is the build, operate, transfer (BOT) model?

Proxsoft builds your center and runs it for an agreed period. Then we hand the running of it to you. The terms are set case by case.

How’s this different from an offshore development center?

An offshore development center’s the vendor’s company and the vendor’s staff. A GCC’s yours. That’s the whole difference. It’s the one that matters if you want the team for years rather than months.

Can I take it fully in-house later?

Yes, in principle. The company’s yours from day one. We’ll agree the hand-over steps with you.

Who handles compliance?

We do, working with our compliance provider.

What about time zones?

India is 9.5 to 13.5 hours ahead of the mainland US, depending on the time zone and the time of year. Your team agrees overlap hours with you. For example, you might overlap for a few hours in your morning, which is evening in India.

Can we start small?

Yes. Around ten people is a sensible place to begin. The mid-market GCCs in India mostly started small too.

Is my NDA protected?

Yes. Your NDA’s protected, and no Proxsoft employee works on your IP.

What does it cost?

It depends on the team you need and the roles in it. Book a call and we’ll walk you through it.

Connect us about your GCC

Tell us about the team you’re building. We’ll come back to set up a call.