bengaluru geospatial technology specialist eagleview is setting up an rd hub in bengaluru the centre will be its largest outpost outside the us the plan is to use tech talent here to accelerate its product roadmap and collapse development cycletime significantly eagleview which currently employs around 100 people plans to take the number to 500 over the next 1215 months the bengaluru office works with locations in bellevue in washington rochester in new york and perth in australia rochester and perth have 800 employees across the two centres rishi daga ceo of eagleview and robert f smith founder chairman and ceo of vista equity partners eagleviews primary investor inaugurated the new office on mondaywe are not just building a back office we are globalising the business we are also building a team of product leaders here and building global market teams that will build products and run campaigns for the local us market said daga who was one of the first employees at eagleview he rose up the ranks until he was promoted as ceo in 2016 eagleview uses computer vision and proprietary aerial imagery to support responders in the aftermath of a natural disaster to help insurers make faster safer and more accurate remote property assessments we have aerial images captured by our own planes we also have the largest network of drones and dronecaptures in the us and canada we are extracting attributes from imagery to identify insights into any location daga saideagleview hasnt outsourced its services so far and has built its capabilities groundup its leveraging machine learning computer vision and property data analytics to help its customers make informed decisions were working with our portfolio companies to build technical centres to attract the brightest and most talented product developers so that our products become more global in scope we are leveraging aiml talent and those in gis geographic information system to deliver missioncritical applications said smith