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Startup Roots.
Enterprise Scale.

This puts us in a unique space where we combine the product instinct, speed, and ownership of startups with the scale, reliability, and rigor that enterprises require.

How it began

The problem

Pre-2003, startups had just started to outsource product development offshore. But success was rare. Vendors ran processes built for large IT programs. Startups needed the opposite: small teams, fast cycles, engineers who understood the why behind a feature, not just the what.

Nitin and Manjusha founded Talentica in 2003 to address this gap. Product engineering for startups, done the way they need it. That refusal to do anything else produced a culture, a hiring standard, and a delivery methodology we call The Talentica Way.

The road so far

Over the next 23 years, we helped startups find product-market fit, navigate pivots, scale through funding rounds, and grow into tech businesses.

Of the 200+ products we built, 30 were profitably acquired. Others became the large enterprises, they once set out to challenge. In the process, we learned how early engineering decisions shape companies years later.

That experience now anchors two units, one for AI-native startups and one for large tech enterprises. Different models and buyer conversations. But the same engineering culture and focus on owning outcomes.

Core
team

Nitin Shimpi Group CEO and Cofounder

Manjusha Madabushi CTO and Cofounder

Sanjoy Singh CEO, Tech Enterprise Business

Aniket Shaligram CEO, Startup Business

Sandeep Saksena SVP, Business Development

Abhishek Gupta Head, AI & Machine Learning

Customer speak

“Talentica has been part of the family at Mist, and they have been a key part of our engineering team. They bring us startup spirit and a wide range of required skills like Data Science, AI, Cloud, DevOps, UI, and Embedded.”

Bob Friday

Co-founder & CTO

“For an early-stage startup like ours, Talentica understood what we thought about user needs and the problems we were trying to solve. They imbibed our vision and helped us design and build a product that will sell and get to the market successfully. They brought expertise in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain to enable innovation for us.”

Carmelle Cadet

Founder & CEO

“The teams at Talentica are focused on delivering outcomes towards growth. The expertise they have in cloud operations, data, QA, and micro-services have been very pleasing and something I like the most working with this team.”

Sandeep Aji

SVP – Products & Engineering

“During our hunt for a reliable technology partner, Talentica stood out in terms of constructive criticism with a fiercely innovative bent. We could see that commitment and motivation were two of their strongest ethics, which is why Talentica has become an organic part of our organization.”