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Past deals in Software

Pixlr

Acquisition in 2011
Pixlr is a provider of cloud-based photo editing services, delivering editing capabilities in the browsers for both consumers and companies. Pixlr provides a platform for many kinds of 3rd-party integrations.

Gehry Technologies

Series B in 2011
Gehry Technologies is an AEC technology company, providing web-based 3D project collaboration, building information modeling, and advanced project delivery services. Its client base consists of international architects, engineers, contractors, and owners working across the globe. Gehry Technologies supports the adoption of BIM technology and processes through project based services, allowing teams to advance their use of critical systems while meeting project schedules. It provides training and knowledge transfer as part of every engagement. Its team includes architects, engineers, builders, computer scientists, and management consultants. Gehry Technologies was founded in 2002 ans is headquartered in Los Angeles, C.A.

Creative Market Labs, Inc.

Acquisition in 2014
Creative Market Labs, Inc. owns and operates a platform for purchase and sell of handcrafted and mouse made design content online. The company allows users to learn, share, and connect with a community of like-minded creators. It provides access to ready-to-use design assets, such as photos, graphics, templates, themes, fonts, add-ons, and three dimensional (3D) images. Creative Market Labs, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of April 30, 2020, Creative Market Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dribbble Holdings Ltd.

Moldflow

Acquisition in 2008
Moldflow, simulation software, now owned by Autodesk, Inc., produces high-end plastic injection molding computer-aided engineering software.

Lagoa

Acquisition in 2014
Lagoa was founded by Thiago Costa (creator of Lagoa Multiphysics), Arno Zinke and Dov Amihod to make digital creation available to everyone, everywhere. Lagoa is the 3D cloud platform for creatives working in engineering, architecture and media & entertainment to visualize 3D content. Lagoa MultiOptics® is a cloud back end rendering technology built for collaboration. The platform enables creators to compose, layout and interactively render high-quality 3D in the browser, eliminating hardware and software costs.

Gentry Systems

Acquisition in 2001
Gentry Systems Inc. develops software tools for the electric utility industry.

Ithaca Software

Acquisition in 1993
Ithaca Software provides prepackaged software services.

Within Technologies

Acquisition in 2014
Within Technologies designs and develops 3D printing software for its clients. The company’s range of software include Autodesk wihthin and Autodesk within medical. Autodesk within enables its users to verify and optimize lattice and skin elements. Autodesk within medical allows implant designers to create coatings for their implants to aid osseointegration. Within Technologies was founded in 2008 by Siavash Mahdevi.

MakeTime Inc.

Series A in 2016
MakeTime is an online platform that enables companies to produce machined components quickly and more efficiently than ever before. MakeTime does this by collecting unused CNC machine time from qualified machine shops across the United States and placing each order with the right shop for the job. MakeTime’s software helps customers streamline time-wasting processes, gives insight and transparency to a confusing process, overcomes capacity shortages, and takes the mystery out of pricing. Its goal is to make CNC machining production straightforward and simple. MakeTime is located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the heart of American manufacturing.

Linius Technologies Limited

Acquisition in 2003
Linius Technologies Limited engages in the development of technology products, software development, and the commercialization and licensing of computer software in Australia. Its core product is Linius Video Virtualization Engine, a video virtualization engine that transforms large inflexible video files into small flexible data structures. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in South Yarra, Australia.

Allpoint Systems

Acquisition in 2013
Allpoint helps surveyors and engineers complete 3D projects at unprecedented scale, speed (by an order of magnitude over manual methods) and efficiency. Scanning professionals may be able to use existing visualization tools for smaller projects (e.g., 1,000 feet of pipe, 10 bridges). However, it is much more difficult to effectively and economically meet the rising demands of asset owners when the increasing capabilities of High Definition Scanning (HDS) and Terrestrial Mobile LiDAR Scanning (TMLS) hardware are rapidly raising expectations.

Cumulate Labs

Acquisition in 2007
Web-based Computer Aided Design Software

Elektro-CAE Software GmbH

Acquisition in 2008
Elektro-CAE Software GmbH provides electrical computer-aided design software for the mechanical engineering, energy, and construction industries.

Seebo Interactive LTD.

Series A in 2016
Seebo Interactive LTD. provides a technology solution to create, develop, analyze, and maintain smart toys. Its technology includes software development tools, and runtime software and cloud solutions. The company also provides concept and creative support, rapid prototyping service, app developer matching, electronic sourcing support, support for production setup, PCB layout support, and post-launch support. The company’s technology also enables students and business travelers to connect with their travel gear. In addition, its technology is used in the areas of smart baby products, smart modern living products, and smart fashion products. Seebo Interactive LTD. is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Topolabs

Acquisition in 2014
Topolabs Technology LLC was founded in late 2013 by James Page and Mark Sears. It was acquired by Autodesk in July 2014. Topolabs created software and other technology to significantly increase quality and strength from low-cost additive manufacturing machines. This technology became a cornerstone of Autodesk's manufacturing platform Forge: https://forge.autodesk.com/ Topolabs team also deveolped http://projectescher.com/ which uses IP from Topolabs.

SoftImage

Acquisition in 2008
Autodesk's vision is to help people imagine, design, and create a better world. SOFTIMAGE is a leading developer of 3D animation, video production, 2D cel animation and compositing software solutions for creative professionals. Located in Montreal, Quebec and employing approximately 300 people worldwide, SOFTIMAGE was founded in 1986 and purchased by Microsoft in 1994.

Formlabs

Series B in 2016
Formlabs Inc. designs and manufactures 3D printing systems for engineers, designers, and artists. It also offers standard, castable, flexible, tough, and dental SG materials; and PreForm software, a software that prepares models for printing on Formlabs printer The company’s products are used in engineering, manufacturing, education, entertainment, dental, jewelry, healthcare, and audiology. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts with additional offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Hungary, and North Carolina.

Modbot Inc

Seed Round in 2016
Modbot brings industrial precision and power to consumer assembled robots. Imagine automated manufacturing and consumer robots within reach of everybody, assembled like Lego. Modbot is a system of affordable and re-usable modules that snap together, filling the gap between $100 hobby and $20,000 industrial motion equipment.

Softdesk

Acquisition in 1996
Softdesk develops and markets a family of fully integrated software products for the architectural, civil engineering and construction markets.

Robin

Seed Round in 2014
Robin is a software company that modernizes the open office and maximizes employee productivity and engagement by reducing friction. It helps employees secure the ideal space and resources for whatever project they’re working on at any given time while equipping facilities leaders with the insights they need to continually optimize the workplace. The solution to the open office isn’t more walls. It’s activity-based working. Robin schedules meetings, desks, and people in thousands of offices around the world. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusettes.

CapacityWeb.com

Venture Round in 2000
CapacityWeb.com exclusive community of world-class OEMs & contract manufacturer.

PlassoTech

Acquisition in 2007
PlassoTech, is a supplier of analysis and simulation software for the mechanical design market.

netfabb

Acquisition in 2015
netfabb GmbH develops software solutions for industrial additive design and manufacturing. The company offers netfabb Professional/netfabb Enterprise software for 3D printing and additive manufacturing; netfabb Private software for professional editing of 3D printing data at home; and netfabb Engines software for machine-specific 3D printing. It also provides cloud, training, support, reseller, and other services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Lupburg, Germany. netfabb GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc. As of November 12, 2015, netfabb GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Eyrus Inc.

Series A in 2022
Deploy technology that gathers labor data and provides analytics to improve the delivery, resource management, project safety, and efficiency of commercial construction.

Smartvid io

Series A in 2017
Smartvid.io enables the AEC industry to significantly reduce jobsite risk by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Smartvid.io's Safety Suite includes Safety Observations, Safety Monitoring and Predictive Analytics products that combine to give project teams and management the ability to predict and prevent incidents - saving lives and preserving timely project delivery. Getting started is easy with pre-built integrations to Autodesk BIM360, Procore, Oracle Aconex, SharePoint, Egnyte, Box, and other data sources. See it in action at www.smartvid.io.

Synthicity

Acquisition in 2015
Synthicity provides easy-to-use software applications to support informed engagement by the stakeholders in decisions about urban development – including planners, designers, architects, community residents, businesses, non-profit organizations, developers and investors. Its current products include UrbanCanvas, GeoCanvas and UrbanSim.

Buzzsaw.com

Series A in 1999
Buzzsaw provides online collaboration applications for the building industry in the United States. The company’s applications help keep building projects on schedule and within budget. Buzzsaw is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Conductor Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Conductor Technologies, Inc. develops a battle-tested cloud rendering platform for film, episodic, and virtual reality applications. It offers Conductor, a solution that transports the studio's rendering workflow to the cloud for managing uploads and downloads, queuing, security, and rapid scaling. The company’s Conductor supports Katana, Maya, Nuke, Ocula, CaraVR, V-Ray, Arnold, and Clarisse software products; and Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms. Conductor Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Berkeley, California.

CloudNC

Series B in 2022
CloudNC Ltd. develops software to design tooling paths for numerically controlled (NC) machine tools. It offers software and a cloud computing service that helps to automate the programming of computerized numerical control (CNC) milling machines. It caters to the manufacturing industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

SpaceIQ LLC

Venture Round in 2021
SpaceIQ LLC develops workplace management software and operations data platform. The company offers CAFM/IWMS, a platform that provides centralized workplace management information, including space planning, move management, and real estate forecasting; and employee engagement application, hoteling and hot desk functionality, meeting room scheduler and employee finder, and collaboration and project management, as well as single sign-on and seamless integrations, including slack. It serves companies of various sizes. SpaceIQ LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional location in Sandy, Utah.

Numenus

Acquisition in 2011
Founded in 2009 and based in Koblenz, Germany, Numenus specializes in interactive rendering directly from NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) data to provide instant, photorealistic design renderings for designers, engineers and marketing professionals.

EAIGLE

Grant in 2020
EAIGLE is an intelligent video Analytics Platform based on machine learning and artificial intelligence for Water Management & Sustainable Operation in Aquatic Centres & swimming pools through real-time occupancy monitoring. It is a full-stack solution of hardware, software, and cloud data that offers facility managers and operators a simple way to monitor and control water usage in their swimming pools.

Evolver

Acquisition in 2011
Evolver enables the social media experience through delivery of personal, transportable avatars across all applications which utilize avatars. Evolver attempts to differentiate in several respects. First, the service is entirely web-based, meaning no downloads, not even flash. It also allows users to design avatars as clones of them themselves with their 'clone from photo' functionality. Lastly, avatars can be transported server to server and dropped straight into existing animations.

Simprints

Grant in 2016
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company committed to transforming the way the world fights poverty. We build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every public good reaches the people who need them most.

Simprints

Grant in 2017
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company committed to transforming the way the world fights poverty. We build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every public good reaches the people who need them most.

Bolt

Venture Round in 2013
Bolt Innovation Group is a venture capital and incubator firm specializing in incubation, seed, early stage, and start-up companies. It seeks to make investments in connected hardware sector, software, B2B companies, and consumer products. The firm focuses on companies at the intersection of hardware and software. It invests $50,000 million in companies. Bolt Innovation Group was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Horizontal Systems

Acquisition in 2011
Horizontal Glue is a Web-based building information modeling (BIM) solution for the construction industry that allows individuals to upload, merge, and browse building models eliminating incompatibility issues between different software platforms while facilitating collaboration among project participants.They develops and publishes building information modeling collaboration software. The Company's products allow architects, engineers, and construction companies to collaborate on projects via a cloud-based platform. Horizontal Systems markets its products globally to the architecture, engineering, and construction markets.

XJet

Venture Round in 2016
XJet Ltd. develops manufactures inkjet-based 3D printing system for metal parts. It offers ceramic and metal additive manufacturing solutions for aerospace, automotive, medical, and tooling markets. The company also offers FabGrade, an inkjet based deposition system for front side metallization, including printer, line integration, chemistry, and process envelopes. XJet Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Rehovot, Israel.

NavisWorks

Acquisition in 2007
NavisWorks, Ltd. develops and markets software to enable the exploitation of the benefits of 3D digital.

Kynogon

Acquisition in 2008
Kynogon SA develops and markets artificial intelligence software for interactive applications. It provides its services to various industries, including gaming, defense and security, industrial, simulation, and education. Kynogon SA was founded in 2000 and is based in Suresnes, France with additional offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. As of May 7, 2008, Kynogon SA operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

MegaBots, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
MegaBots, Inc., uses cutting-edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots of science fiction, videogames and movies. These robots fight in epic-scale arena combat the likes of which the world has never seen before. MegaBots are 15-foot-tall, internally piloted humanoid robots that fire cannonball-sized paintballs at each other at speeds of over 120 miles per hour. As the robots battle, armor panels chear off and litter the field, smoke and sparks pour out of the chassis, massive robotic limbs tear off, and robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing.

Factory OS, Inc.

Corporate Round in 2019
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings, shelters, and residential homes. The company specializes in off-site building construction. It offers modular buildings, multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, modular condominiums, affordable modular homes, modular office buildings, office complexes, real estate sales offices, modular bank branches, and retail location buildings. Factory OS, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vallejo, California.

Upchain

Acquisition in 2021
Innovation has never been this easy. Upchain started in 2015 with the goal of changing what Product Lifecycle Management means for users across the supply chain. Existing solutions were built for multi-national companies, and suppliers down the chain were left out in the cold. We knew there was a better way. Our vision is a completely interconnected supply chain from the first nut to the final bolt, where collaboration is the default setting, and where mission-critical data is simultaneously accessible and secure. We think process doesn’t have to be as hard as it is, and we intend to make it a whole lot easier for everyone.

Sim Ops Studios

Acquisition in 2010
Sim Ops Studios, Inc., a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University, with a development office in Pittsburgh, PA and is currently building out its management team and headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. The team consists of creative and motivated engineers, designers, and product managers with backgrounds from the online entertainment field, game development, and new technology development. The company's competitive advantage comes from a unique expertise in building easy to use platforms for 3D game development based on years of R&D within Carnegie Mellon University. Sim Ops Studios has developed Wild Pockets, a new technology platform that enables anyone to easily create fully interactive, collaborative 3D worlds that run in a web browser.

Firehole Composites

Acquisition in 2013
Autodesk's vision is to help people imagine, design, and create a better world.

Ecotect

Acquisition in 2008
ECOTECT is an industry leading building analysis program that allows designers to work easily in 3D and apply all the tools necessary.

Qontext

Acquisition in 2012
Qontext offers innovative collaboration and social platform for the enterprise. The vision of Qontext is to provide social software and web 2.0 tools that integrate with other business applications in the company, creating streams of business-related conversations. Enhanced conversations, content sharing in a private social network, carry numerous use cases and business benefits. Qontext delivers consumer-internet style user experience combined with enterprise-grade administration capabilities. Designed for inexpensive integration, Qontext is a unique Enterprise 2.0 product that can help Independent Software Vendors add social capabilities to their products very quickly. Qontext Inc., is a proud venture of Pramati Technologies.

Delcam

Acquisition in 2013
Delcam is one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced CADCAM solutions for the manufacturing industry. Delcam’s range of design, manufacturing and inspection software provides complete, automated CADCAM solutions, to take complex-shaped products from concept to reality. It is now the largest developer of product design and manufacturing software in the UK, with subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Asia. Delcam's software is used by more than 45,000 organisations in over 80 countries.

Assemble Systems, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Assemble Systems is a BIM Model-Data Management software company. Its flagship product Assemble Insight is a cloud based platform allowing AEC firms to leverage BIM data for increased project insight, advanced project collaboration and data-driven decision making. Assemble is used today to manage over 7,500 projects. The Assemble Systems team includes technology experts and experienced architecture, engineering, and construction industry professionals who are addressing BIM interoperability for design, construction and operation.

Tinkercad

Acquisition in 2013
Tinkercad is a new and faster way of creating designs for your 3D printer. With the help of the latest web technology you can now use a solid modeling CAD directly in your browser.

Genome Compiler

Seed Round in 2015
Genome Compiler is a computer aided design and collaboration platforms for the synthetic biology industry. Genome Compiler Corporation provides an integrated intuitive software platform for rapid engineering of biology with its genomic manipulation tools and its optimal design experience. The Genome Compiler CAD tool allows scientists in the biotechnology, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries to design, debug and compile biological code, to develop better bio-based products faster. We strive to make the programming of living things easy and accessible.

Revit Technology Corporation

Acquisition in 2002
Revit is a company that understands how architects work...a company with experience in developing products that match your processes...a company that combines revolutionary technology with a clean-slate approach to architectural software...a company that has tailored their solutions to the needs of architects, not just for product but also for support, upgrades and purchase options. In short, Revit is a different kind of company — one that's based on what architects need to do their job.

Panoramic Power Ltd.

Series B in 2014
Panoramic Power, the leading provider of energy management solutions, enables businesses to optimize their energy consumption, improve operational efficiency and generate income through load response programs. Using its innovative and affordable circuit-level cloud-base analytics solution, companies across a wide range of retail and commercial industries gain insight into their energy usage and are able to optimize operations, processes and maintenance resources.

aPriori Technologies

Series C in 2019
aPriori is a provider of digital manufacturing simulation software. By leveraging the digital twin with our digital factories, they automatically generate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design to cost (DTC) insights, helping manufacturers collaborate across the product development process to make better design, sourcing and manufacturing decisions, drive product costs lower, and create higher value products in less time. aPriori also provides discrete manufacturers and product innovation companies with the most technologically advanced and comprehensive product cost management software and service solutions available on the market today. These solutions fundamentally change the way companies calculate and manage product costs, enabling more informed design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions that drive significant cost out of products, both pre- and post-production.

Modio

Acquisition in 2015
Modio Inc. is a corporation at the forefront of 3D printing and play. With the Modio app it is easy to design fully pose-able creatures and characters digitally using the built-in part library, modify them with fun surface textures and shapes and then make them real with a desktop 3D printer. You can modify the built-in parts with all kinds of fun textures and shapes to really create a design that is uniquely yours. And then you can make them real and hold them in your hand. Modio currently runs on the iPad and is now live on the iOS app store. We'd love to know what you think of Modio so we've made all the content available for free for a limited time.

Jitterbit, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Jitterbit is an API transformation company that helps businesses to exploit data from any source. The company provides a platform that enables companies to rapidly connect SaaS on-premise and cloud applications and instantly infuse artificial intelligence into any business process. Its intuitive API creation technology allows companies to reuse business-critical applications and data to bring new offerings to market in days, not months.

DeviantArt, Inc.

Series B in 2013
DeviantArt, Inc. operates an online social network for artists and art enthusiasts. The company offers deviantART, an online art community that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. It allows users to upload various categories of art works, such as digital arts, traditional arts, photography, artisan crafts, literature, film and animation, flash, designs and interfaces, customization, cartoons and comics, fan arts, resources and stock images, community projects, contests, design challenges, journals, and scraps. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Hollywood, California. As of February 22, 2017, DeviantArt, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Wix.com Ltd.

Pulse Entertainment

Venture Round in 2000
Pulse Entertainment, Inc. is a leading provider of avatar messaging services for mobile phones and web sites based in San Francisco, California. The Company's patented Veepers Media System (VMS) platform is used by major wireless carriers, web-based greeting card providers and consumer brands to create animated messages, 3-D personalized wallpaper, visual voicemail and other rich media applications. Pulse is focused on providing engaging web and mobile video services that are easy for other companies to deploy and simple for consumers to use and interact with. Major customers include American Greetings, AT&T, Verizon Wireless and KDDI.

Skymatter

Acquisition in 2007
Skymatter’s Mudbox software offers a new paradigm of 3D brush-based modeling, allowing users to sculpt organic shapes in 3D space with brush-like tools. Appealing to both traditional sculptors and digital artists, Mudbox provides a simple and fast toolset for creative modeling, prototyping and detailing. 3D assets created in Mudbox are often imported into Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya software for texturing, rigging, animation and final rendering.

Aurigo Software Technologies

Corporate Round in 2020
Aurigo Software Technologies is the world’s leading provider of cloud based business automation software to automate capital planning, construction project management, mobile inspections and document control. Aurigo's customers comprise large infrastructure owners across public sector and energy sectors Aurigo Masterworks to manage over $250 billion worth of capital programs. Established in 2003, Aurigo Software is a US corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas with wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada and India. Aurigo is a high growth technology company and it's work environment is designed to be casual, informal and fun, providing a lot of flexibility to every Aurigo employee to bolster innovation and achieve their maximum potential.

Skycatch, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alchemedia

Series C in 2000
Alchemedia Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of image protection and content-to-commerce solutions on the Web. Every day Clever Content protects millions of images and promotes image-based commerce while preventing unauthorized use. By transforming images into valuable ecommerce assets, Alchemedia enables Content Commercialization(SM). Founded in 1998, Alchemedia is a privately held, VC-backed company.

Innovyze, Inc.

Acquisition in 2021
Innovyze is a leading global provider of wet infrastructure business analytics software solutions designed to meet the technological needs of water/wastewater utilities, government agencies, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest UK, Australasian, East Asian and North American cities, foremost utilities on all five continents, and ENR top-rated design firms. With unparalleled expertise and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the Innovyze connected portfolio of best-in-class product lines empowers thousands of engineers to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, operate and sustain highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems, and provides an enduring platform for customer success.

Robobat

Acquisition in 2006
Robobat was a French company designing software for structural engineers. Robobat develops and distributes software analysis, design, calculation and design for structural engineers.

COLOURlovers

Acquisition in 2014
COLOURlovers is an international creative community that helps people discover their inner designer. We provide people with a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution. As of 5/1/2011 there are 563,438 COLOURlovers around the world who have created 3,766,464 Colors, 1,562,273 Palettes and 1,461,132 Patterns.

Realviz SA

Acquisition in 2008
REALVIZ develops and markets interactive 2D image processing and 3D modeling tools for computer graphics professionals in the television advertising and programming, feature films, and corporate presentation market. REALVIZ applications enable users to easily and cost-effectively process 2D photos, video and cinematic images into computer-generated images, sequences, 3D camera tracks and 3D models for use in the creation of 3D animation and special effects.

Alias Systems

Acquisition in 2005
Alias industrial design software provides sketching, concept modeling, surfacing, and visualization tools for industrial, product, and automotive design.

Lucid

Debt Financing in 2014
Lucid provides BuildingOS, a SaaS based building energy management and automation platform. Its platform offers data visualization, building data analysis, energy conservation and engagement, building data integration, and energy management services. Lucid was formerly known as Lucid Design Group, Inc. and changes its name to Lucid in September 2011. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oakland, California. As of February 12, 2018, Lucid Design Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Acuity Brands, Inc.
eSUB Inc. designs and develops construction management software for subcontractors. It offers project management, time card management, corporate management, and resource management software, as well as field works mobile application and scheduling tools. The company serves electrical, mechanical, specialty, and drywall contractors, as well as HVAC and plumbing industries. eSUB Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Diego, California.

Linius Technologies Limited

Acquisition in 2003
Linius Technologies Limited engages in the development of technology products, software development, and the commercialization and licensing of computer software in Australia. Its core product is Linius Video Virtualization Engine, a video virtualization engine that transforms large inflexible video files into small flexible data structures. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in South Yarra, Australia.

Discreet Logic

Acquisition in 1999
Discret Logic is a private holding company focused on global sustainability and quality of life.

Pype, Inc.

Acquisition in 2020
Pype, Inc. develops and offers software solutions for the construction industry. The company's products include AutoSpecs, a software that develops algorithms to read specs and to pull out action submittals, product data, closeout submittals, and tests and inspections; Closeout that provides a single portal for closeout documentation management with digital document collection from subcontractors and reporting dashboard; eBinder, a platform that compiles turnover documentation; and SmartPlans that automatically extracts submittals and product schedules from drawings. Pype, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chantilly, Virginia with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. As of August 17, 2020, Pype, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Carbon

Series A in 2013
Carbon brings together innovations in software, hardware, and molecular science to deliver industry-leading digital manufacturing solutions. With proprietary Carbon Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology and family of programmable liquid resins, manufacturers can unlock new business opportunities such as mass customization, on-demand inventory, and previously impossible product designs. The Carbon Platform allows customers to build uniquely differentiated products while reducing waste and speeding time to market. Carbon was founded by Dr. Joseph DeSimone and Philip DeSimone in 2013.

Buzzsaw.com

Series B in 2000
Buzzsaw provides online collaboration applications for the building industry in the United States. The company’s applications help keep building projects on schedule and within budget. Buzzsaw is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Moon Express Inc.

Series B in 2017
Moon Express Inc., a commercial space company, manufactures a series of robotic spacecraft that are sent on Moon for ongoing exploration and commercial development. It offers MX-1 commercial lunar lander, a robotic space vehicle capable of various applications, including delivering scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon. The company serves NASA. Moon Express Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Cape Canaveral, Florida with propulsion development and test facilities in Huntsville, Alabama.

CadSoft Computer GmbH

Acquisition in 2016
CadSoft Computer GmbH develops and supplies computer aided design software.

Micro Application Packages Ltd

Acquisition in 2011
Micro Application Packages Limited (MAP Software) is a UK-based provider of CAD, CAM and estimating software that supports fabrication and construction for the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) industry. MAP Software’s technology will be an important addition to the Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) portfolio for MEP contractors and engineers.

Ilesfay Technology Group

Acquisition in 2014
Ilesfay® Technology Group is a provider of horizontally scalable data replication solutions. Using patented technologies, Ilesfay offers a suite of products delivering global value across collaborative workgroups in clouds, between clouds, and in private data centers. Ilesfay replaces point-to-point connections with its PointToCloud® architecture, using the cloud as an intermediary network. The Content Delivery Engine (CDE™) is the operational core ensuring delivery of the right information. MatchMaking® is a breakthrough approach finding commonalities between data sets and only transferring the difference—also called preemptive binary differencing. In the extended enterprise, making use of cloud computing is crucial in efficiently keeping up with network demand, effectively sharing data, and driving costs down. Replication is most significant for distribution, collaboration, and continuity. Today’s solutions are not built elastically to scale to meet today’s data replication needs. No one is replicating data like they truly want to. Thus, the conventional wisdom is that full-scale replication can’t be done. The resources do exist, however, and Ilesfay has the technology and expertise to meet the demand. Replication and collaboration is now possible in ways thought to be impossible, and at record speeds.

Epicentric

Series C in 2000
Epicentric develops software solutions and websites that personalize portals and integrate information and applications. It enables users to provide combined web services including applications, content, and commerce to customers and employees across intranets, extranets, and internet. Epicentric was established in 1998, based in San Francisco, California. Currently it operates under Vignette Corporation.

3D Geo

Acquisition in 2008
3D geosystems

ALGOR

Acquisition in 2008
ALGOR, Inc. provides design, analysis, and simulation software. ALGOR, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As of January 20, 2009, ALGOR, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Instructables

Acquisition in 2011
Instructables is a site developed by Squid Labs, a lab whose focus is on technical innovation and whose founders were once part of the MIT Media Lab. Instructables provides a forum for personal creativity, as it allows users to post instructions to describe how they created something. The concept of Instructables has been in the works for over five years, and has evolved from a platform initally called iFabricate that was developed in late 2004.

Lucid

Series B in 2015
Lucid provides BuildingOS, a SaaS based building energy management and automation platform. Its platform offers data visualization, building data analysis, energy conservation and engagement, building data integration, and energy management services. Lucid was formerly known as Lucid Design Group, Inc. and changes its name to Lucid in September 2011. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oakland, California. As of February 12, 2018, Lucid Design Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Acuity Brands, Inc.

M-SIX

Series A in 2012
M-SIX developed the VEO platform to organize all the information necessary to design, construct, and operate buildings and infrastructure. VEO is in use on the most complex projects in the world, such as airports, hospitals, and semiconductor fabs.

Caice Software Corp

Acquisition in 2002
CAiCE Software Corporation develops surveying and engineering applications for transportation agencies.

3D Robotics

Venture Round in 2016
3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis. It helps users in land mapping and site scanning services in collecting accurate aerial data of the Jobsite, turning urns the drone photos into maps, models, point clouds, and providing comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support, enabling clients to take the batter and informed decisions related to construction sites. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

OnLive

Series C in 2009
OnLive is a cloud gaming company offering a cloud gaming platform and a cloud desktop system that develops server-based video game processing. Its games run on high-end gaming PCs in its data centers and are streamed via the cloud to its users’ Mac, PC, or Android device. The company’s game client automatically patches, updates, and pre-installs all of its users’ games automatically so they can start playing. OnLive develops server-based video game processing, allowing games to run without game consoles or high-end computers, moving away from a system in which games are purchased and downloaded. OnLive Desktop, named the No.1 app of 2012 by Time Magazine, demonstrates that a remote desktop experience on a mobile device can feel local. OnLive was founded in 2007 by Steve Perlman, noted entrepreneur and inventor who spent years in developing the technology before launching the OnLive Game Service. It is headquartered in Mountain View, C.A.

MechSoft

Acquisition in 2004
MechSoft, Inc. develops engineering knowledge center and entry-level knowledge capture software tools.

Meshmixer

Acquisition in 2011
Meshmixer is a prototype design tool based on high-resolution dynamic triangle meshes.

Spacemaker AS

Acquisition in 2020
Spacemaker AS develops software to analyze data to choose building sites. The product explores various site proposals and sort out data such as, zoning and laws, physical environment, quality preferences, and market preferences to find out best possible site for a building project. Spacemaker AS was founded in 2016 and is based in Oslo, Norway with additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of November 23, 2020, Spacemaker AS operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Shotgun Software

Acquisition in 2014
Shotgun Software makes project management & pipeline tools that help creative studios track,schedule,review,collaborate, and digital assets.

Bitsquid AB

Acquisition in 2014
Bitsquid AB develops a game engine that is used by game developers to create 3D games for next-generation consoles and PCs.

Micro Engineering Solutions

Acquisition in 1992
Micro Engineering Solutions is a developer and marketer of manufacturing CAD / CAM software.

Constructware

Acquisition in 2006
Constructware provides an on-demand environment for construction project management and collaboration.

GRIP Entertainment

Acquisition in 2011
GRIP Entertainment operates as an artificial intelligence (AI) game middleware company.

SeeControl

Acquisition in 2015
SeeControl equips product builders and solutions integrators with one of a kind connected business applications that drive new revenue and operating efficiency in the Industrial Internet Age. The Enterprise IoT Cloud Service organizes and makes sense of data from the Internet of Things with no need for coding skills to connect and analyze products. Customers ranging from ABB, HP, and Fujitsu to next-generation IoT innovators depend on SeeControl for new services that manage over one million things around the world.

Solid Angle S. L.

Acquisition in 2016
Arnold is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects. Originally co-developed with Sony Pictures Imageworks and now their main renderer, Arnold is used at over 300 studios worldwide including ILM, Framestore, MPC, The Mill and Digic Pictures. Arnold was the primary renderer on dozens of films from Monster House and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to Pacific Rim and Gravity. It is available as a standalone renderer on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, with plug-ins for Maya, Softimage, Houdini, Cinema 4D and Katana.

Voxel8

Series A in 2015
Voxel8 Inc. designs and manufactures electronic devices. It offers desktop 3D printers that are used to print thermoplastics or UV resins. The company also provides Project Wire, a cloud software tool that is used for designing 3D printable electronic devices that can be rapidly fabricated using the Voxel8 3D printer. Voxel8 Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

EAGLE Software

Acquisition in 2016
EAGLE’s development, but in Autodesk’s as well. You see, we’re serious about becoming the standard for the design and manufacture.

Vela Systems

Series B in 2010
Vela Systems software automates the execution and oversight of field activities on construction and capital projects for contractors, architects, engineers and owners. Instead of carrying a field notebook and paper plans or specs, jobsite users work with Vela software on mobile computers to electronically access documents and to complete QA/QC inspections, worklists, punchlists, field reports, update the Building Information Model, and carry out many other critical field activities. Customers routinely save 5-10 hours per week per user, accelerate project delivery by two days per month, capture the true Cost of Quality® and reduce litigation risk through standardized documentation.

Socialcam

Acquisition in 2012
Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

PlanGrid

Acquisition in 2018
PlanGrid provides a cloud-based construction document collaboration platform that allows plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneously shared with everyone on a construction project. Its platform lets contractors and architects collaborate from their desktop or mobile devices across all their project plans, specifications, photos, RFIs, and punchlists. Major construction firms use the platform of PlanGrid. Kenny Stone, Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee, and Tracy Young founded Loupe in 2011 that later became PlanGrid, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Carmel Software Corp.

Acquisition in 2008
Carmel Software Corporation engages in developing, marketing, and selling heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning.

Building Conversation Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Building Conversation offers a unique and innovative augmented reality solution to help real estate developers and architecture firms communicate their ideas more clearly with each other and the general public. Their mobile app offers a variety of highly customizable capabilities directed at streamlining and improving the building proposal process specific to your unique challenges. Small neighborhood store, high end residential or billion-dollar waterfront development and everything in between, arc will make the outcome faster and easier and the process saving you time and money.

Inforbix

Acquisition in 2012
Inforbix is developing a brand new approach to collecting product data from disparate sources, finding semantically connected pieces of information and presenting them to the user in a meaningful way. Inforbix is going to revolutionize the way engineers and all people in manufacturing companies are working with product data. Manufacturing companies “own” a huge amount of product data residing in files, databases and business applications. Virtually, every manufacturer complains that they own data they cannot retrieve and use. Product data is scattered between sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and support. Inforbix aggregates and exposes data with easy to deploy and use cloud based apps. Inforbix is developing Semantic technology based cloud apps for retrieving manufacturing & engineering product data across different CAD, PDM, & PLM systems & file types.

Vela Systems

Acquisition in 2012
Vela Systems software automates the execution and oversight of field activities on construction and capital projects for contractors, architects, engineers and owners. Instead of carrying a field notebook and paper plans or specs, jobsite users work with Vela software on mobile computers to electronically access documents and to complete QA/QC inspections, worklists, punchlists, field reports, update the Building Information Model, and carry out many other critical field activities. Customers routinely save 5-10 hours per week per user, accelerate project delivery by two days per month, capture the true Cost of Quality® and reduce litigation risk through standardized documentation.

MatterFab, Corp.

Series A in 2015
MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers, material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing.

BIMWorld Assets

Acquisition in 2008
BIMWorld, a privately-owned business specializing in the production and distribution of branded BIM content for building product .

Compass Systems

Acquisition in 2005
Compass Systems GmbH develops data management solutions for the engineering sector.

Source3

Seed Round in 2015
Source3 is the world’s first platform for end-to-end management of intellectual property in user-generated content (UGC). We provide IP recognition, licensing and rights administration services to connect creators, marketplaces and brands and enable monetization of user content across physical and digital products. Our team has built successful licensing platforms powering digital music, user-generated videos and 3D printing. Source3 offers scalable, turn-key solutions for today’s global licensing challenges.

Buzzsaw.com

Acquisition in 2001
Buzzsaw provides online collaboration applications for the building industry in the United States. The company’s applications help keep building projects on schedule and within budget. Buzzsaw is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Buildingconnected

Acquisition in 2018
BuildingConnected, Inc. operates a construction communication platform. It enables users to find, communicate, and share documents with general contractors and subcontractors. In addition, it offers bid management, professional network, communication and collaboration, performance analytics, and integrated cloud storage; and enables data owners to view portfolio performance dashboard, communicate with nationwide network of service professionals, and do future planning for public entities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 23, 2019, BuildingConnected, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc.

Illuminate Labs

Acquisition in 2010
Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Illuminate Labs develops and markets rendering and baking technology especially tailored to satisfy the needs of game developers based on the proprietary LiquidLight technology. Turtle is a sophisticated rendering and baking plug-in for Autodesk Maya used for lighting and content creation in next-gen game development. Beast is a game engine-independent content pipeline tool used for advanced global illumination and dynamic relighting of characters.

Blue Ridge Numerics

Acquisition in 2011
Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. designs and sells CFD software in North America. It offers CFdesign, which enables mechanical engineers to study fluid flow and thermal performance in virtual prototyping. The company's software turns MCAD, autodesk inventor, CATIA modeling, CoCreate OneSpace modeling, Pro/engineer, solid edge, solidworks, spaceclaim, and NX workstations into an interactive flow bench, thermal test rig, and wind tunnel. It also provides engineering services. Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Scaleform

Acquisition in 2011
Scaleform is the leading provider of user interface software for the videogame and consumer electronic industries. Scaleform GFx leverages the power of the Adobe® Flash® tool set and enables developers to quickly create powerful and immersive user interface environments while stream lining workflow and improving time to market. Used in hundreds of games across all major platforms ranging from AAA titles to casual games, Scaleform GFx provides an artist/design driven solution to create hardware-accelerated 3D game menus, HUDs, animated textures, in-game videos and mini-games. The GFx toolset has grown to include a complete Flash UI toolkit and framework, memory and performance analyzers, and add-ons for Flash video and IME for Asian chat.

HSMWorks Technology

Acquisition in 2014
HSMWorks technology with its industry leading software and cloud services for manufacturing.

Simprints

Grant in 2018
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company committed to transforming the way the world fights poverty. We build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every public good reaches the people who need them most.

Motiva

Venture Round in 2000
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Wild Pockets

Acquisition in 2010
Is an end to end solution that supports creators throughout the life cycle of 3D game development. Currently in open beta, Wild Pockets was spun off from the Carnegie Mellon Universityâ€:tm:s Entertainment Technology Center (it was originally named Sim Ops Studio). The service, which is free, describes itself as an "easier way to make 3D games and media for the web-browser." Wild Pockets features a browser-based 3D game engine, file hosting, library of game assets.

Bridgit Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Bridgit Inc. develops and provides construction-project management solutions. The company offers Bridgit Bench, a construction resource planning and workforce management tool; and Bridgit Field, an inspection, task, and communication management solution. It caters to contractors and developers. Bridgit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Rhumbix, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Rhumbix, Inc. develops and delivers a mobile platform for construction field supervision to ensure crews have the materials, tools, equipment, and approved drawings to complete the day’s work. Its platform allows information flow upwards through mobile tools designed for the craft workforce, captures accurate data from the field in real-time, and provides project managers with data-driven insights to improve site safety and labor productivity, as well as empowers foremen and work crews by providing daily feedback on performance. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

3D Robotics

Series D in 2017
3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis. It helps users in land mapping and site scanning services in collecting accurate aerial data of the Jobsite, turning urns the drone photos into maps, models, point clouds, and providing comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support, enabling clients to take the batter and informed decisions related to construction sites. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Factory OS, Inc.

Series B in 2020
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings, shelters, and residential homes. The company specializes in off-site building construction. It offers modular buildings, multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, modular condominiums, affordable modular homes, modular office buildings, office complexes, real estate sales offices, modular bank branches, and retail location buildings. Factory OS, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vallejo, California.

PlanPlatform

Acquisition in 2009
PlanPlatform, formerly known as VisualTao, develops online software used to construct models collaboratively and exchange information online. VisualTao provides the online software that enables teams to collaboratively construct models and exchange information online

GRAITEC Group - Steel Products

Acquisition in 2013
GRAITEC is an Autodesk Platinum Partner in Europe and America and a long standing.