BANGALORE:  Several international next-gen mobile companies are taking Bangalore as their new home. Companies like Airpush of the U.S., Applift and Glispa of Berlin, and Alibaba-backed Quixey, have moved into their city in hopes of drawing developer talent.  Bangalore has now emerged to become of the biggest harbor for engineering talent who are keen on mobile app development, reports TOI.

Ad platform Applift has arranged the largest R&D centre which is outside its home base in Berlin. The company that has Myntra and Practo as customers has around 70 employees and aims at bringing in another 60 employees by May 2016. Applift assist companies like Makemytrip and Zynga to get users for their apps. The company aids advertisers to reinstate the loyalty and charging users for mobile apps.

Tim Koschella, founder and global CEO of Applift said "We see India as a strategic point to grow our R&D team. We have over 25 Indian internet companies as long-standing clients". The company has generated more than $5 million from investors which includes the Hasso Plattner Ventures, Bidstalk at the start of this year. Quixey, known as the search engine for the mobile app world got a hold on the startup Dexetra the previous year. It aims on recruiting an additional 50 people, Quixey, that received $135 million in funding by Softbank and Alibaba recently released a global product called Launch from India.

The new product is an Android app that surfaces everything stored on your phone with a single tap.

Tomer Kagan, co-founder and CEO of Quixey said "Many Indian consumers are mobile-first. China has gone through that hump. The Indian market is ripe for discovery and we believe if we can get that experience into the hands of new mobile users, we can change the way they experience mobile”.

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