Cepheid GCC in India: Locations & Company Profile

Company overview

Sector: Education & Research
Sub-sector: Research
Mandate (derived): Technology & Engineering
Parent headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Parent revenue (USD): $900,000,000
Parent headcount: 2,730
India headcount: Not disclosed

GCC locations

Gurugram
Bengaluru

Department mix

Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.

Engineering: 894
Operations: 409
Sales: 335
Support: 257
Information Technology: 227
Finance: 104
Business Development: 103
Marketing: 83
Human Resources: 74
Legal: 54
Data Science: 50
Accounting: 42
Product Management: 35
Arts And Design: 22
Consulting: 20
Administrative: 10
Media And Commmunication: 9
Entrepreneurship: 2

Technology stack

ABB Robotics
AC500 PLC
AI
AWS Analytics
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Public Cloud
AWS SDK for JavaScript
AWS Trusted Advisor
Acronis
Act!
Adobe
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Experience Manager
Adobe Marketing Cloud
Aha!

Public leadership

Sumit Sethi

Director of Cloud Platform

Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.

Research overview

Cepheid develops and manufactures automated molecular diagnostic testing systems - the GeneXpert instrument platform and Xpert cartridge-based tests for detecting infectious diseases (including tuberculosis and COVID-19), sexual health conditions, and oncology markers; it has been a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation since 2016.

India launch: 2013
Maturity: Innovation & R&D Hub

Public statements describe the India center's engineering teams (cloud platform, systems engineering, product security) working across the full product lifecycle and running innovation-focused hackathons to recruit talent, indicating a genuine R&D/engineering mandate rather than back-office shared services.

Timeline

2013
Cepheid India Private Limited incorporated, registered in Gurugram, Haryana.
2024
Cepheid opened a new manufacturing facility in India (Bengaluru) producing GeneXpert systems and Xpert cartridges to support global and India TB-elimination efforts.
2026
Cepheid publicly highlighted its India Development Center's role in full-product-lifecycle diagnostics R&D and active engineering hiring.

Real estate

Paras Twin Towers, Tower B, Golf Course Road, Sector 54, Gurugram (registered office of Cepheid India Private Limited)

News and developments

Cepheid Expands in India to Support Global Efforts in Fight Against TB

Cepheid opened its first India manufacturing facility (Bengaluru) to produce GeneXpert systems and Xpert cartridges, supporting India's and the world's TB-elimination goals.

2024-09 Cepheid Newsroom ↗

Cepheid Highlights India Development Center's Role in Global Diagnostics R&D

Cepheid publicized that its India Development Center's engineering teams work across the full product lifecycle on molecular diagnostics, quoting its VP of Global Systems Engineering.

2026-04-02 TipRanks ↗

Cepheid Highlights India Development Center and Hiring in Molecular Diagnostics

Cepheid drew attention to active recruitment and culture at its India Development Center as part of continued investment in India-based R&D capacity.

2026-05-27 TipRanks ↗

Sources

Sources and research notes

Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.