Mangaluru: Niveus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an award-winning Google Cloud partner on Thursday inaugurated its largest office in the country here in Mangaluru.

Sprawling across 16,000 sq. ft, with a seating capacity of 210 staff, it is the largest office of the company in India. The company has around 300 employees working from various locations in India and Singapore.

Speaking after the inauguration of the new office, actor Rakshith Shetty said he was surprised to see Mangaluru and Udupi becoming base for a global cloud engineering organization such as Niveus. He said there was lot of untapped potential in the region, be it in technology, medicine, or even arts. When the talent gets access to the right infrastructure, there was no limit to what they could achieve, he said.

Niveus CEO Suyog Shetty said the organization has seen tremendous growth in business and operations in recent times, registering an over 300% growth year on year. The Mangaluru office offers opportunities to software professionals in the region where the immense pool of talent is available from the education hub. The setup is another key step to attracting and retaining the best of talents in the region, he said.

Niveus has been empowering industry leaders, including top private banks and leading asset management companies, and customers to leverage cloud technologies and harness the power of cloud services to build resilient infrastructures that scale. It recently expanded to the ASEAN region, setting up a hub in Singapore and onboarding new customers.

Niveus was funded in 2013 by Suyog Shetty, Rashmi George, Roshan Bava, and Mohsin Khan.

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