US-based SaaS agency Cilio Technologies expects to double its world enterprise within the subsequent 12-18 months with its foray into India which can even function its hub for operations within the Middle East and Southeast Asia, a high official of the corporate stated.

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Cilio President and CEO Rick Olejnik instructed PTI that to cater to the expansion the corporate can even double its engineering workforce in India.

“If we are able to make the right footprints in India in the next six months, I think it’s going to contribute almost more than double what Cilio is doing right now in the next 12 to 18 months. That’s the plan. Being very aggressive on it,” he stated.

The firm, which focuses on house furnishing section, entered the Indian market with the acquisition of startup Automation Factory.

Olejnik stated that house enchancment merchandise are coming with improved standardisation and the per capita spent on home enchancment has been rising 40 per cent year-on-year in India which goes to drive the corporate’s software-as-a-service in India.

The firm works with distributors within the house enchancment section by retailers like Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ikea and so on. It supplies software program instruments that facilitate choices from product choice until their set up in addition to related providers. Olejnik stated that the corporate has began with a workforce of 45 engineers in India and goes to spend money on a gross sales workforce.

“We plan to double our engineering team in the next 6 to 9 months. Since we are launching this product in India, we have a focus on increasing some footprints, especially around the digital marketing space because we need to have a digital identity at the same time. In addition, there will be a lot of focus on acquiring new customers which will require a lot of focus on the sales team as well,” he stated.

Cilio claims to have registered round 35 per cent progress in India on a year-over-year foundation and expects the identical to proceed.

Olejnik stated the corporate has plans to launch operations in Singapore within the third quarter of this yr which can be managed from India after which increase to Dubai by March 2025 quarter.

“We plan to be more aggressive because the idea is to start with India and to expand into Singapore and Dubai. Those two markets are very structured, with a huge expat population, which would contribute to our footprint in Southeast Asia. So, the idea is not only about India, it’s all about business in Southeast and Middle East Asia. The operations will be managed from India,” he stated.