India, June 18 -- o9 Solutions, Inc. ("o9"), is looking to accelerate its growth in India and Asia. o9 has received a minority equity investment from leading global investment firm KKR at a valuation of over one billion dollars. The company intends to hire India-based talent in emerging technologies - Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and other key technologies in the Digital Transformation space - as well as expand its customer base in Asia.

Commenting on the India market, Sanjiv Sidhu, Chairman and Co-Founder, o9 Solutions, said, "Rapid digital transformation of planning and operations capabilities-to drive resilience, agility, productivity, cost management-has become a key business priority for CXO's in these times of COVID-19...