Japan’s Rakuten opens group’s largest overseas office in Bengaluru

Rakuten India announced Thursday the formal launch of their new office Rakuten – Crimson House Bengaluru in the city- the company’s largest outside of Japan. The Bengaluru facility will service the company’s existing businesses like Rakuten Pay in Japan, India offerings, media and streaming solutions for Europe and APAC as well as new credit and banking solutions to be launched in the US next year, Sunil Gopinathan, Rakuten India chief executive officer (CEO) told ET.

Located at Cubbon Park, Rakuten – Crimson House Bengaluru is a 20-storeyed building. With a capacity for housing over 3,000 employees, it currently accommodates 2,000 employees with room to grow. The product, engineering, and advanced research facility represents a further expansion of the company’s global technology footprint and will focus on developing and delivering a wide range of cross-industry deep technology solutions to help drive digital transformation and innovation for global customers and partners.