Grid Dynamics
Grid Dynamics (Nasdaq: GDYN) is a US-headquartered enterprise AI and digital transformation consulting firm serving Fortune 1000 clients with proprietary GAIN platforms, Forward Deployed Engineers, and hyperscaler partnerships across TMT, retail, and financial services.
- Company typePublic
- Founded2006
- HeadquartersSan Ramon, United States
- Headcount1,001–5,000
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Grid Dynamics does
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) is a US-based, publicly traded enterprise digital transformation and AI consulting firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Ramon, California. With approximately 4,964 personnel as of March 31, 2026 distributed across the US, UK, Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland, Central and Eastern Europe, and India, the company delivers AI consulting, engineering, and platform offerings to Fortune 1000 enterprises through a follow-the-sun delivery model. Its core technology is the proprietary GAIN (Grid Dynamics AI Native) Platform suite—comprising GAIN for Agentic Commerce, GAIN for AI SDLC, and GAIN for Physical AI—augmented by the Merchandising Experience Platform (MXP), the WAVE framework, and starter kits for ML observability and visual process monitoring. Delivery is anchored by the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model, which embeds Grid Dynamics engineers inside client teams to drive outcomes rather than hand off code.
The firm generates revenue primarily through professional services engagements with a strategic shift toward outcome-based pricing tied to platform deployment. FY2025 revenue was $411.8M (+17.5% YoY), with AI revenue exceeding $90M (29.3% of Q1 2026 revenue, up from 25% in FY2025). Customer concentration sits across seven verticals—Technology/Media/Telecom (29.5% of Q1 2026 revenues, growing 30.3% YoY), Retail (28.4%), Financial Services (23.5%), Manufacturing/CPG (9.4%), and Pharma, Insurance, and Asset & Wealth Management filling the balance. Hyperscaler co-sell is a meaningful channel, with partnership-influenced revenue reaching 19.1% of Q1 2026 total, driven by Microsoft Azure (specialized partner with five advanced specializations), AWS (Advanced Tier with multi-year strategic collaboration), Google Cloud (Premier Partner), and NVIDIA (joint Solution Center at NRF 2026).
Grid Dynamics has executed an active M&A program—including NextSphere Technologies (April 2023), JUXT (September 2024), Mobile Computing S.A. (December 2025), and Ekumen (May 2026)—to expand delivery capacity and vertical expertise. Notable minority ownership rests with Beijing Teamsun Technology Co., Ltd., which beneficially owns approximately 20.0% of shares through a subsidiary. The company was founded in 2006, IPO'd on Nasdaq in March 2020, and currently trades with a market capitalization near $657M as of June 2026.
Grid Dynamics firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Grid Dynamics
- Legal name
- Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc.
- Website
- https://griddynamics.com
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2006
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1,001–5,000 employees
- Short description
- Grid Dynamics (Nasdaq: GDYN) is a US-headquartered enterprise AI and digital transformation consulting firm serving Fortune 1000 clients with proprietary GAIN platforms, Forward Deployed Engineers, and hyperscaler partnerships across TMT, retail, and financial services.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Grid Dynamics industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Enterprise Technology Consulting
- NAICS
- Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)
- akta.pro primary industry
- ML Lifecycle Collaboration & Workspace Management (HDAAABAK)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- AI/ML Decision Intelligence & Automated Recommendations (TLAEAKAL)
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Where Grid Dynamics is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Ramon
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices11 records
Markets served
Grid Dynamics business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others
Revenue model
- Enterprise AI & digital transformation services: Primary revenue stream from delivering complex technical consulting, software design, development, testing, and internet service operations to Fortune 1000 clients across Technology/Media/Telecom, Retail, Finance, CPG/Manufacturing, Healthcare/Pharma verticals. Q1 2026 revenues of $104.1M; FY2025 record revenues of $411.8M (up 17.5% YoY).
- Outcome-based / IP-scaled engagements: Shift from traditional time-and-materials consulting toward outcome-based engagements, leveraging GAIN platforms, with growing partner-influenced revenue exceeding 19% of total. AI revenue grew to 29.3% of Q1 2026 revenue (up from 25% in FY2025).
- GAIN platform subscriptions and licensing: Recurring revenue from the GAIN platform suite (Agentic Commerce, AI SDLC, Physical AI) and Merchandising Experience Platform, deployed in production across industry verticals to generate measurable business impact; pricing aligned to outcomes.
- AI-Native Modernization on Azure: Launched May 19, 2026 as an AI-native modernization service on Microsoft Azure powered by GAIN Platform for SDLC; targets large enterprises with mission-critical legacy environments, with free deployment support via Azure Accelerate program.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Outcome Based/ Performance | Multi-year contract | Quote-based / outcome-based pricing for enterprise engagements |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Azure Accelerate program: free deployment support included |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Project-based consulting engagements |
Go-to-market motion4 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels9 records
Grid Dynamics product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Grid Dynamics provides AI consulting, engineering, and platform services to Fortune 1000 enterprises, anchored by its proprietary GAIN (Grid Dynamics AI-Native) platform suite covering Agentic Commerce, AI SDLC, and Physical AI. The company delivers outcomes through Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with client teams across industries including Retail, Financial Services, Manufacturing, TMT, and Pharma, supported by deep partnerships with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA.
Product overview
Grid Dynamics offers a platform-plus-modules architecture built around its proprietary GAIN (Grid Dynamics AI-Native) platform family, which powers multiple AI products and enterprise modernization offerings. The GAIN Platform for AI SDLC accelerates software delivery with AI embedded across planning, development, testing, and release — and underpins the AI-Native Modernization service on Microsoft Azure as well as the AI Engagement Model. The GAIN Platform for Agentic Commerce enables intelligent search, personalization, and autonomous customer engagement, working alongside the Merchandising Experience Platform (MXP) which integrates with Google Vertex AI Search for Commerce. The GAIN Platform for Physical AI powers robotics and computer vision offerings including the TPGen robotic inspection solution built on Wandelbots NOVA and the Visual Process Monitoring Starter Kit. Complementary platform offerings include the NVIDIA Solution Center (built on NVIDIA Metropolis, Omniverse, and Nemotron), the Agentic AI Platform co-developed with Temporal Technologies, the ML Observability Starter Kit on AWS SageMaker, and the Mobile Digital Assistant for Banking. These AI platforms are complemented by full-service consulting lines — AI Services, Cloud Platform and Product Engineering, Digital Engagement, AI and Data Platforms, Physical AI/Robotics/IoT, and Managed Services — plus specialized consulting practices in Operating Model, Experience Design, Architecture and Scalability, and RevOps. Service delivery is organized around industry verticals (Retail, Financial Services, Manufacturing & CPG, Technology/Media/Telecom, Pharma & Life Sciences, Insurance, Asset & Wealth Management) and geographies (US, Central/Eastern Europe, India) following a "Follow-the-Sun" model.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- GAIN (Grid Dynamics AI-Native) Platform: Proprietary suite of AI-native enterprise platforms including GAIN for Agentic Commerce, GAIN for AI SDLC, and GAIN for Physical AI, purpose-engineered for scale, security, and measurable ROI.
- Merchandising Experience Platform (MXP)
Products and services
- GAIN Platform for Agentic Commerce AI-native commerce platform combining intelligent search, personalization, and autonomous customer engagement, delivered by Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with client teams to drive outcomes for enterprise retail and commerce clients.
- GAIN Platform for AI SDLC Platform that accelerates software delivery with AI embedded across planning, development, testing, and release; underpins the AI-Native Modernization service on Microsoft Azure and benchmarks to deliver 30%+ acceleration of project delivery.
- GAIN Platform for Physical AI Intelligent robotics and computer vision platform for manufacturing, logistics, and industrial operations; underpins the TPGen robotic inspection solution and visual process monitoring offerings.
- Merchandising Experience Platform (MXP) Proprietary merchandising platform that integrates with Google Vertex AI Search for Commerce to deliver hyper-personalized product discovery, search, navigation, recommendations, and rule-based merchandising controls for enterprise retail clients.
- NVIDIA Solution Center Suite of ready-to-deploy AI applications for retail and manufacturing built on NVIDIA Metropolis, Omniverse, and Nemotron; targets video analytics, intralogistics optimization, and digital content generation as a replacement for costly recurring SaaS licenses.
- TPGen Robotic Inspection Solution Generates tool-paths from CAD models to automate robotic inspection workflows for welding, gluing, and surface processing; built on the Wandelbots NOVA platform with SmartRay for 100% fault detection accuracy in weld inspection.
- Mobile Digital Assistant for Banking AI-powered mobile digital assistant designed for banking sector customer engagement and service automation, leveraging natural language processing for conversational banking experiences.
- AI-Native Modernization on Microsoft Azure Cloud modernization service targeting large enterprises running mission-critical legacy environments; powered by GAIN Platform for SDLC with five Azure advanced specializations including Infra and Database Migration, with Azure Accelerate deployment support.
- Agentic AI Platform with Temporal Technologies Enterprise agentic AI platform co-developed with Temporal Technologies to orchestrate durable, multi-step agentic AI workflows for complex business processes.
- AI Services Service line for AI consulting and engineering covering AI transformation, architecture, and deployment for Fortune 1000 enterprise clients across multiple verticals.
- Cloud Platform and Product Engineering Cloud and DevOps engineering services for agile, scalable infrastructure, including modernization playbooks such as monolith-to-microservices migration.
- Digital Engagement Digital engagement services for customer experience personalization and conversion optimization across retail, financial services, and other enterprise verticals.
- AI and Data Platforms Data and analytics services that deliver AI-powered insights, including ML observability, MLOps, data migration, and platform engineering for enterprise clients.
- Physical AI, Robotics, and IoT Physical AI, robotics, and IoT engineering services covering industrial automation, robotic inspection, intralogistics, and edge deployment for manufacturing and logistics clients.
- Managed Services Ongoing managed services for enterprise clients covering support and operational management of platforms and AI deployments post-implementation.
- Operating Model Consulting Consulting practice on how technology functions are structured, how work flows through them, and how AI changes both, providing strategy and operating model design.
- Experience Design Consulting Human-centered design practice from research and journey mapping through to interaction design and usability validation for enterprise digital products.
- Architecture and Scalability Consulting System design, technical debt, and architecture review from senior engineers experienced in hyperscale environments, targeting enterprise scalability challenges.
- RevOps Consulting Revenue operations consulting applying theory of constraints across the customer journey, demand capture, operations, and delivery, focused on measurable ROI for enterprise clients.
Quantifiable outcome
- 7% total revenue increase, 8% rise in average basket value, and 20% YoY online sales increase at Galeries Lafayette from MXP + Vertex AI Search for Commerce deployment across 600,000-product catalog.
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Companies that use Grid Dynamics
Customer profileNamed customers17 records
Segments8 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Grid Dynamics technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration8 records
AI capability17 records
Feature9 records
Grid Dynamics partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.
- Microsoft (Azure)flagshipMicrosoft Azure specialized partner with five advanced specializations including Infra and Database Migration. AI-Native Modernization service offering launched on Azure on May 19, 2026, powered by the GAIN Platform for SDLC, with free deployment support via the Azure Accelerate program. Microsoft reported Azure revenue surpassed $75 billion in 2025, up 34% YoY.
- Google CloudflagshipGoogle Cloud Premier Partner status with joint deployment of Vertex AI Search for Commerce and Grid Dynamics' MXP for hyper-personalized retail. Successfully deployed for Galeries Lafayette delivering 7% revenue increase, 8% rise in average basket value, and 20% YoY online sales increase.
- NVIDIAflagshipJointly presented NVIDIA Solution Center at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show. Suite of ready-to-deploy AI applications for retail and manufacturing leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis, Omniverse, and Nemotron software components to replace costly recurring SaaS licenses.
- Mobile Computing S.A.flagshipAcquired on December 12, 2025. Buenos Aires-based software development services provider founded in 1998, known for digital product co-creation, UI/UX services, and high client satisfaction scores with long-standing blue-chip client relationships across manufacturing, CPG, and financial services industries.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)flagshipMulti-year strategic collaboration agreement signed December 9, 2025, extending a 15-year partnership. Provides access to the AWS Data Foundations for Generative AI Program and supports organizations adopting generative AI solutions at scale. AI revenue grew 30% YoY in 2025 in part through this hyperscaler alliance.
- Temporal TechnologiescoreJointly launched Agentic AI Platform for Enterprises on September 3, 2025, enabling durable execution of agentic AI workflows at enterprise scale.
- WandelbotscorePartnership to develop the TPGen robotic solution using the Wandelbots NOVA platform. Showcased at Automatica 2025 in Munich (June 24-27, 2025); automates robotic inspection workflows and reduces programming time from weeks to minutes.
- JUXTflagshipAcquired on September 26, 2024. UK-based provider of software engineering services focused on data-intensive systems for financial institutions, strengthening Grid Dynamics' capabilities in banking and financial services — particularly risk management and derivatives platforms — across Europe. JUXT now operates as 'a Grid Dynamics company'.
- NextSphere TechnologiesflagshipAcquired on April 18, 2023. Custom application development firm that added over 200 employees and strengthened global delivery centers in Tampa, Phoenix, Hyderabad, and Chennai, enhancing industry vertical expertise in Healthcare, FinTech, and CPG/Manufacturing.
- SmartRaycoreCollaboration with Wandelbots to develop SmartRay's AI Robotic Inspection Platform for robotic weld inspection, integrated with AI-assisted workpiece feasibility analysis, tool path generation, and tool path execution; reduces initial analysis and path creation time from days to minutes.
Scale indicators19 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Grid Dynamics competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Thoughtworks: Direct peer in custom software engineering and digital transformation consulting for Fortune 1000, with comparable AI/GenAI engineering practices and similar focus on outcome-based delivery for enterprise modernization.
- Slalom: Direct peer in enterprise AI and digital transformation consulting with comparable Fortune 1000 client focus and outcome-driven engagement model; competes for similar mid-market and enterprise modernization mandates.
- Globant: Direct peer in AI and digital transformation engineering services targeting enterprise customers across financial services, retail, healthcare, and media — with similar product-engineering depth and outcome-oriented engagement models.
- EPAM Systems: Direct peer in digital engineering and AI-enabled IT services for Fortune 1000 clients, with comparable size (~$4-5B revenue), similar Eastern European delivery footprint, and overlapping vertical focus in financial services, retail, and TMT. Closest comparable public company.
- Luxoft (DXC Technology): Direct peer in digital engineering services with strong financial-services and capital-markets specialization — directly comparable to Grid Dynamics' JUXT acquisition and its financial services vertical (23.5% of Q1 2026 revenue).
Broad incumbents
- Capgemini: Broad incumbent engineering services peer with deep financial services and manufacturing AI practices; shares customer base with Grid Dynamics (recently identified together in legacy-modernization partner rankings). Patrick Nicolet, Grid Dynamics director, is Capgemini's former Group CTO.
- Accenture: Broad incumbent with large-scale AI/GenAI engineering and consulting practices targeting the same Fortune 1000 enterprise customers. Largest competitor in the outcome-based AI transformation segment.
- Genpact: Broad incumbent in digital transformation and AI services, with strong overlap in financial services, insurance, and manufacturing verticals — competing for similar mid-to-large enterprise transformation deals.
- Deloitte (Consulting): Broad incumbent strategy-and-engineering consulting peer, frequently co-listed alongside Grid Dynamics in legacy-modernization and enterprise-AI partner rankings; competing on large enterprise AI transformation mandates.
- Cognizant: Broad incumbent IT services peer explicitly grouped with Grid Dynamics in Jefferies' 2026 top IT services stock coverage. Overlaps heavily in AI/digital engineering for financial services, healthcare, and retail but at materially larger scale.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Trust signalCompliance5 records
Grid Dynamics financial estimates
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Grid Dynamics leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles12 records
Grid Dynamics subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries4 records
Grid Dynamics funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors1 record
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Grid Dynamics M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A8 records
Investments1 record
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Frequently asked questions about Grid Dynamics
What does Grid Dynamics do?
Grid Dynamics provides AI consulting, engineering, and platform services to Fortune 1000 enterprises, anchored by its proprietary GAIN (Grid Dynamics AI-Native) platform suite covering Agentic Commerce, AI SDLC, and Physical AI. The company delivers outcomes through Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with client teams across industries including Retail, Financial Services, Manufacturing, TMT, and Pharma, supported by deep partnerships with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA.
Is Grid Dynamics a public or private company?
Grid Dynamics is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently operating.
When was Grid Dynamics founded?
Grid Dynamics was founded in 2006. It employs 1,001 to 5,000 people.
Where is Grid Dynamics based?
Grid Dynamics is headquartered in San Ramon, United States, in the North America region.
How does Grid Dynamics make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Enterprise AI & digital transformation services are the primary driver. The others are outcome-based / IP-scaled engagements, GAIN platform subscriptions and licensing and AI-Native Modernization on Azure.
Who are Grid Dynamics's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Thoughtworks, Slalom, Globant, EPAM Systems and Luxoft (DXC Technology). Broad incumbents are Capgemini, Accenture, Genpact, Deloitte (Consulting) and Cognizant.
Does Grid Dynamics have an API?
No public API is recorded for Grid Dynamics.
What industry is Grid Dynamics in?
Grid Dynamics's product category is Enterprise Technology Consulting. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAAABAK, ML Lifecycle Collaboration & Workspace Management, with a secondary code of TLAEAKAL, AI/ML Decision Intelligence & Automated Recommendations. Its NAICS code is 541511 and its SIC code is 7372.