Kyndryl

Name

Kyndryl

Legal name

Kyndryl Inc.

Website

https://kyndryl.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes) (HDABAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Kubernetes & Container Platform Management (Private Cloud) (HDABABAC), Managed Container Platforms (Kubernetes & Container PaaS) (HDABAAAB), Cloud-Native Development (Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices) (BPAEACAD), Cloud Security for Containers & Kubernetes (KSPM/Kubernetes Security) (HDABAHAO)

Keywords

• Infrastructure services
• Cloud migration
• Mainframe modernization
• Managed services
• Data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

New City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel

Revenue model

1. Managed IT infrastructure services: Recurring managed services contracts under which Kyndryl designs, builds, manages and modernizes customers' mission-critical IT systems across hybrid, multicloud and mainframe environments; the core historical revenue stream since the IBM spinoff.
2. Kyndryl Consult: Outcome-driven technology consulting practice including strategy, architecture and change management engagements; grew 18% to $3.5 billion in FY2026 with double-digit growth for the third consecutive year.
3. Hyperscaler alliance and cloud services revenue: Revenue from co-delivered AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud engagements, including cloud migration, managed cloud and joint agentic AI offerings; grew 59% to $1.9 billion in FY2026 from $1.2 billion in FY2025.
4. AI Orchestration and Agentic AI subscriptions: Recurring revenue from Kyndryl Bridge, Kyndryl AI Orchestration for Business, Agentic Service Management and Kyndryl Cloud Uplift deployments across enterprise customers, often sold as multi-year platform engagements.
5. Mainframe, zCloud and outsourcing contracts: Long-term outsourcing, mainframe-as-a-service and zCloud engagements such as those with Velliv, Ethniki Asfalistiki and Broadridge, including Mainframe Modernization Services and quantum-safe modernization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Kyndryl is a global IT infrastructure services provider that designs, builds, manages and modernizes mission-critical information systems for enterprise customers across 60+ countries. The company delivers hybrid cloud, mainframe, network, application, data and AI services with deep expertise in running complex, regulated technology estates for large organizations. Kyndryl combines proprietary platforms like Kyndryl Bridge with consulting-led transformation to help enterprises operationalize AI, modernize legacy systems, and achieve sovereign cloud capabilities.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kyndryl Bridge: Open integration platform delivering IT solutions with AI-driven insights across enterprise technology estates.
• Kyndryl Consult
• Kyndryl Collaborative
• Kyndryl Vital
• Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework
• Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning
• Kyndryl Agentic Service Management
• Kyndryl Cloud Uplift
• Kyndryl zCloud
• Kyndryl Mainframe Modernization Services

Products and services

• Mainframe Modernization Services
• Cloud Migration and Modernization
• Kyndryl Bridge Platform
• Managed Infrastructure Services
• Data and AI Services
• Cybersecurity and Resiliency Services
• Digital Workplace Services
• Consulting and Advisory Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 50% reduction in IT incidents and 90% reduction in mission-critical production outages for certain customers via Kyndryl Bridge
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments9 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, minor and core.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 June 2026Expanded multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) to help enterprise customers adopt, deploy and scale agentic AI across mission-critical workloads. AWS is investing in Kyndryl's talent development, joint solution engineering, AI specialization and industry-focused modernization, with Kyndryl's global AWS business staffed by more than 11,000 AWS-certified professionals. The two companies are co-developing industry-specific agentic AI modernization blueprints and Kyndryl is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud initiative.
• Veeam SoftwareminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 June 2026Veeam Software announced the winners of its 2026 EMEA Partner Awards during its annual Partner Advisory Council in Portugal (June 15-18, 2026), recognizing partners for exceptional performance, innovation and customer impact in data resilience, recovery, security and AI readiness. Kyndryl participates as a Veeam EMEA partner.
• JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Cloudflare, Docker, PwC (Athena coalition)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026Founding members of Chainguard's Athena coalition alongside BNY, JPMorganChase, Cisco, Cloudflare, Docker, LTIMindtree, PwC, and Corridor, focused on AI-driven remediation of open source vulnerabilities before public disclosure.
• Chainguard (Athena coalition)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Kyndryl is a founding member of Chainguard's Athena coalition alongside BNY, Cisco, Cloudflare, Corridor, DepthFirst, Docker, JPMorganChase, LTIMindtree and PwC. Athena pools open source vulnerability findings, facilitates pre-embargo remediation through private forks, and has processed over 20,000 findings and shipped 2,000 patches across 500 open source projects, with plans to work with the Linux Foundation.
• Solvinity (acquisition target)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Kyndryl's planned €100 million (~$113-115 million) acquisition of Dutch cloud specialist Solvinity was blocked by the Dutch government in May 2026 on national security grounds due to Solvinity's role managing the Netherlands' DigiD digital identification system. Solvinity and shareholder Vitruvian Partners filed an appeal in June 2026.
• Broadridge Financial SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2026Kyndryl and Broadridge extended their longstanding partnership to modernize Broadridge's data center, network architecture and core mainframe environment with AI-enabled operations and quantum-safe capabilities, leveraging Kyndryl Bridge and the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework. As a DORA-designated critical third-party service provider, Kyndryl supports platforms that process over $15 trillion in daily tokenized and traditional securities.
• Broadridge Financial Solutions (extension)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2026Announced the expansion of the existing Broadridge-Kyndryl financial technology collaboration, supporting the modernization of Broadridge's data center and core platforms with AI-enabled and quantum-safe technologies.
• MicrosoftflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2026Kyndryl and Microsoft are deepening their strategic alliance to operationalize AI across hybrid environments, combining Kyndryl's run-transform-run operating model with Microsoft Azure. Kyndryl brings over 17,000 Microsoft-skilled professionals across 60+ countries, holds the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure Specialization and Azure Expert Managed Service Partner status, and supports the 5G AIOps Operator Survey with Microsoft.
• Palo Alto Networks (Frontier AI Alliance)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Kyndryl was added to Palo Alto Networks' Frontier AI Alliance as a strategic partner alongside Cognizant, HCLTech, TCS, Infosys, McKinsey & Company, Orange Cyberdefense and Wipro. The alliance delivers AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities at scale, leveraging frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic to combat machine-speed threats.
• Ethniki AsfalistikiminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Expanded collaboration to further modernize the Greek insurer's mainframe environment hosted on Kyndryl zCloud, serving over 1.9 million policyholders. The collaboration began in 2021 and supports Piraeus Bank Group following the November 2025 acquisition.
• Nova IntelligenceminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 May 2026Nova Intelligence, a San Francisco-based agentic AI startup for SAP modernization, raised $31.5 million in Series A led by Chemistry with participation from Accel, Conviction and SAP.io, with case studies citing Kyndryl as a client. Nova claims a 75% reduction in manual effort and 50% cost reduction.
• DNA (Finnish telecom)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 May 2026Kyndryl co-created an AI-enhanced 24/7 security operations center (SOC) for SMBs with DNA, built on Google Security Operations. Kyndryl helped shape the business case, design the technology platform and define the operating model, enabling DNA to move from concept to production and expand beyond connectivity services.
• Google CloudflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026Kyndryl expanded its Distributed Cloud services with Google Cloud, combining Google Distributed Cloud with Kubernetes-based application modernization on Google Kubernetes Engine. The collaboration supports sovereign, regulated and AI-driven workloads, includes an agentic AI-powered Aviation Industry Cloud Solution, and Kyndryl achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Energy & Carbon designation alongside deployments for PiSA Farmacéutica, Southbay, and CMPC.
• Google Cloud partner ecosystem (Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, TCS, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCLTech, Infosys, BCG, McKinsey, KPMG)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 22 April 2026At Google Cloud Next '26, Google announced a $750 million innovation fund and Kyndryl and other major consulting partners each launched dedicated Gemini Enterprise practices. Kyndryl is part of the Google Cloud partner ecosystem delivering Gemini-based agentic AI to enterprise customers alongside Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, TCS, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCLTech, Infosys, BCG, McKinsey and KPMG.
• Skytap (acquired)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2024Kyndryl Holdings Inc. acquired Skytap in May 2024 to enhance its hybrid cloud and data center migration service offerings.
• SAPcoreTechnology or IntegrationKyndryl is an implementation partner for RISE with SAP and has delivered SAP S/4HANA migrations including Mondi Group (eight-month global migration) and Alpina Colombia (migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private on AWS), with Kyndryl Bridge supporting the environments.
• Quantum Computing Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKyndryl partnered with Quantum Computing Inc. to demonstrate converged quantum-secured communications solutions at OFC 2026, integrating quantum key distribution with optical encryption, alongside a Kyndryl security report that found 62% of organizations invest in quantum technologies but only 4% view it as the most impactful near-term technology.
• VellivminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKyndryl and Velliv extended their partnership, with Kyndryl continuing to operate Velliv's critical mainframe workloads from its Kyndryl zCloud environment in Denmark. Kyndryl Bridge provides real-time visibility, proactive monitoring and operational insights.

Scale indicators20 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• DXC Technology: Pure-play IT infrastructure services competitor spun out of CSC/HPE, focused on data center outsourcing, mainframe and modern workplace services. Closely comparable run-transform-run model and customer base.
• TCS (Tata Consultancy Services): Largest Indian IT services peer with broad managed services, consulting and hyperscaler-aligned offerings for global enterprises. Kyndryl India competes directly for delivery and customers.
• Cognizant: Major IT services firm with deep enterprise relationships across banking, insurance and healthcare; competes on cloud modernization, digital engineering and managed services for large enterprises.
• Accenture: Global IT services leader competing head-on in cloud transformation, consulting and managed services for large enterprises. Direct peer because of overlapping enterprise customers, hyperscaler alliance strategy and consulting-led modernization plays.
• HCLTech: Global IT services firm with strong mainframe, infrastructure services and engineering practices; competes with Kyndryl on mainframe modernization and hybrid cloud for large enterprises.
• NTT Data: Global IT services and infrastructure provider competing on managed services, cloud and mainframe modernization for large enterprises, with a particularly strong overlap with Kyndryl in banking and insurance.
• Wipro: Indian-heritage global IT services competitor with similar enterprise managed services, mainframe modernization and cloud practice; a member of the Palo Alto Networks Frontier AI Alliance alongside Kyndryl.
• Capgemini: European-headquartered IT services competitor with strong presence in cloud, data and engineering services for large enterprises; overlaps significantly with Kyndryl in regulated industries across Europe.
• Infosys: Global IT services peer offering cloud, mainframe, application modernization and consulting; competes with Kyndryl in financial services, manufacturing and energy verticals.

Broad incumbents

• IBM: Kyndryl's former parent and still a major competitor and partner in managed infrastructure, hybrid cloud (OpenShift) and mainframe services. Highly comparable business model around mission-critical enterprise IT, though IBM's portfolio is far broader including software and hardware.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A3 records

Investments

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