Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a software company that specializes in infrastructure engineering solutions for design, construction, and operations. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, Bentley develops a range of applications, including MicroStation for modeling and visualization, ProjectWise for project information management, and AssetWise for asset management. The company also offers PlantSight, which enhances plant operations, and SYNCHRO XR for interactive digital construction modeling. Bentley's offerings extend to cloud-based solutions like iModelHub, OpenSite Designer for civil site development, and iModel.js for infrastructure digital twins. Targeting engineers, architects, contractors, and geospatial professionals, Bentley provides comprehensive services, including implementation, consulting, and managed services. With a significant portion of its revenue generated internationally, Bentley Systems is recognized for its expertise in specialized fields such as bridge and rail design, distinguishing itself from broader competitors in the market.

Gregory Bentley

Executive Chairman of the Board

David Hollister

Chief Investment Officer and CFO

Justin Schmidt

Vice President, Corporate Development

36 past transactions

Cesium

Acquisition in 2024
Cesium is a platform focused on tiling, visualizing, and analyzing 3D geospatial data, facilitating developers in integrating 3D data into their applications. Originating as a spinout from Analytical Graphics Inc., the company is based in Philadelphia, PA. Its technology enables data providers to share extensive datasets in real-time, streamlining the process of accessing and utilizing 3D information. By offering tools that allow users to efficiently create web-based 3D geospatial applications, Cesium aims to maximize the potential of 3D data across various industries, including security and space software development.

Blyncsy

Acquisition in 2023
Blyncsy, Inc. is a data analytics company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, that specializes in providing big data solutions through a range of products and services. Founded in 2014, Blyncsy deploys sensors in various environments, from ski resorts to college campuses, to monitor a variety of metrics, including parking availability and public transit demand. The company's analytics platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to process millions of data points in real-time, offering insights that enhance infrastructure management. One of its notable products, Payver, utilizes machine vision to create digital twins of real-world infrastructure, improving data collection accuracy and extending the lifecycle of public road assets. Additionally, Blyncsy offers a contact tracing solution called Mercury, aimed at managing contagion tracking for universities. Overall, Blyncsy's innovations aim to improve safety and efficiency within traffic and transportation networks while supporting local governments and traffic authorities.

Niricson

Series A in 2023
Niricson specializes in developing an AI-based predictive analytics platform focused on infrastructure asset management. Its key offerings, the AUTOSPEX platform and DRONIC, provide asset managers and civil engineers with essential insights and multi-defect layer visualization regarding the current condition of their infrastructure assets. This technology enables users to proactively plan repairs, manage budgets effectively, and ensure the safety of critical structures throughout their service life and beyond. By delivering accurate information at a reduced cost, Niricson supports hydro dam owners and engineering consulting firms in their operational activities.

Eagle.io

Acquisition in 2022
Eagle.io is an environmental Internet of Things (IoT) platform that focuses on the remote monitoring of environmental sensors. The platform facilitates the ingestion, storage, analysis, editing, and visualization of time series sensor data, enabling users to effectively manage and interpret environmental information. By providing a comprehensive solution for handling sensor data, Eagle.io supports various stakeholders in monitoring environmental conditions and making informed decisions based on real-time insights.

ADINA R & D INC

Acquisition in 2022
ADINA R&D, Inc. develops and distributes the ADINA engineering simulation software suite worldwide.

Power Line Systems

Acquisition in 2021
Power Line Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and supporting software for the design of transmission lines and their structures. Founded in 1984 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company has established itself as a global leader in this field, providing software solutions to over 1,600 organizations across more than 125 countries. Its flagship product, PLS-CADD, facilitates the comprehensive design of power lines by incorporating terrain analysis, sag-tension calculations, and drafting functions. Additional offerings include Optimum Spotting for structure location selection, PLS-POLE for analyzing various pole materials, and TOWER for optimizing steel lattice towers. The software is widely used by consulting firms, fabricators, municipal utilities, and major generating utilities, ensuring the structural integrity and efficiency of power transmission systems.

Spida Software

Acquisition in 2021
SPIDA Software develops specialized technology solutions aimed at enhancing efficiency and reliability in the electric and telecom industries. The company offers a unified platform for the design, analysis, and management of overhead distribution systems, catering to organizations of various sizes. Its Structure Management System includes SPIDAcalc, a leading structural analysis software, and SPIDAstudio, a cloud-based solution for asset data management. These tools can be utilized independently or as part of an enterprise suite, facilitating streamlined utility engineering and business processes. SPIDA Software's offerings can also integrate with other enterprise systems, enabling utilities to transform their infrastructure management effectively.

sensemetrics

Acquisition in 2021
sensemetrics, Inc. specializes in developing industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensor platform solutions. The company provides a cloud-based sensor management and data analytics platform that enables the configuration, management, and monitoring of industrial sensor systems. Their offerings include wireless mesh networking devices and solutions for managing distributed sensor networks in various applications, such as structural, geotechnical, and environmental monitoring. Serving industries including natural resources, water, transportation, energy, and construction, sensemetrics centralizes sensor data to deliver real-time insights. By utilizing a standards-based approach to data collection and organization, the company helps organizations reduce infrastructure costs, enhance asset utilization, and improve operational efficiency and safety. Founded in 2014, sensemetrics is headquartered in San Diego, California, with an additional office in Denver, Colorado.

Vista Data Vision

Acquisition in 2021
Vista Data Vision is a software solution designed for the monitoring, publishing, and management of sensor data. It focuses on providing productivity tools for instrumentation projects, offering alarm and collaboration services that facilitate effective data management. The platform supports both remote and real-time observations, allowing clients to enhance their decision-making processes without being tied to a specific vendor. By streamlining the handling of instrumentation data, Vista Data Vision aims to improve efficiency and support better outcomes for its users.

Nadhi Information Technologies

Acquisition in 2021
Nadhi Information Technologies is an enterprise software provider specializing in analytics and decision support tools tailored for the construction industry. The company offers a cloud-based platform that delivers crucial project information through email and SMS alerts, dashboards, and detailed reports. This technology empowers decision-makers to make informed choices and necessary adjustments during project execution, promoting a more efficient business process and minimizing waste of time, materials, and resources. Additionally, Nadhi Information Technologies employs Lean Construction practices, working closely with contractors to enhance planning processes and identify areas to eliminate waste.

INRO Software

Acquisition in 2021
INRO Software specializes in multimodal transportation planning, traffic simulation, and mobility visualization services. The company develops tools for the transport sector, including a multimodal planning system for transportation forecasting and a vehicle-based traffic simulation platform designed for city-wide traffic management. Additionally, INRO Software offers a mobility visualization solution that provides data visualization and analytics for large-scale mobility and geospatial datasets. These products assist metropolitan, regional, and national transport operators and planning agencies in understanding and addressing the impacts on transportation systems, ultimately contributing to the advancement of mobility simulation and modeling.

E7

Acquisition in 2021
E7 is the field-based construction delivery platform, connecting project leaders with real-time insights and providing unparalleled visibility of project performance. With a daily clear line of sight, E7 fills the gap between each end-of-month financial reporting cycle.

Business Collaborator

Acquisition in 2020
Business Collaborator make software that helps Their customers build the future. Since 1998, They have developed document management, project collaboration and Building Information Modelling (BIM) software, supporting Their customers at every step of the journey. To deliver the best document management, project collaboration and BIM software, wrapped up in a delightful user experience.

Citilabs

Acquisition in 2019
Citilabs is a global provider of mobility analytics, headquartered in Sacramento, with additional offices in Atlanta, Tallahassee, Abu Dhabi, and Milan. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to help businesses and government agencies create positive change within their communities. With a 40-year history in the industry, Citilabs serves nearly 2,500 clients across more than 70 countries. Its mobile analytics platform enables users to measure, manage, and predict human movement, allowing clients in various sectors—including transportation, advertising, insurance, real estate, smart cities, utilities, and automotive—to gain insights into market trends and improve decision-making.

Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies

Acquisition in 2019
Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies specializes in geospatial software development, focusing on advanced 3D mapping solutions. With decades of experience since its inception in 1962, the company provides software that captures, models, and facilitates the sharing of geospatial data. Their offerings are tailored for various applications, including mobile mapping, UAS mapping, indoor mapping, and aerial oblique mapping. By leveraging the latest digital techniques, Orbit GT aims to simplify the complexities of big data, making it easy for clients to manage, view, extract, publish, and embed geospatial content into their workflows, whether desktop or cloud-based. The company is dedicated to serving municipalities, law enforcement, and other organizations, ensuring they have access to cutting-edge tools for geo-related matters.

Keynetix

Acquisition in 2019
Keynetix Limited, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Redditch, United Kingdom, specializes in cloud-based software designed for the management of geotechnical data. The company's flagship product, HoleBASE SI, serves as a comprehensive geotechnical and geoenvironmental database, offering tools for creating customized borehole logs and sections efficiently. Keynetix's software enhances the visualization, modeling, and sharing of geotechnical information, enabling organizations to manage their data more effectively. The company has been recognized for its innovation in the field, having received the Ground Engineering product innovation award. Keynetix operates as a subsidiary of Bentley Systems, focusing on delivering cost-effective and standardized outputs for its users.

Digital Water Works

Acquisition in 2019
Digital Water Works, Inc. is an engineering technology solutions provider focused on the water and wastewater industry. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, the company develops advanced software that leverages artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Their solutions aim to enhance the management of water and wastewater assets, allowing utilities to reduce costs related to unplanned downtimes and unnecessary maintenance. By employing digital twin technology, the software facilitates better understanding and management of wet infrastructure, optimizing performance and lifespan while minimizing environmental impact and energy consumption. Digital Water Works' innovations help utilities improve operational efficiency, reduce lifecycle costs, and ultimately enhance service delivery.

SignCAD Systems

Acquisition in 2019
SignCAD Systems, Inc. is a software development company based in Plymouth, Minnesota, specializing in CAD/CAM solutions for the traffic sign design and manufacturing sector within the transportation industry. Founded in 1994, the company provides its software to various clients, including state departments of transportation, cities, counties, engineering firms, and manufacturers across 43 states. As of February 2019, SignCAD Systems operates as a subsidiary of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. The company's focus on enhancing efficiency and accuracy in traffic sign production has made it a key player in its niche market.

AIworx

Acquisition in 2018
AIworx is provides artificial intelligence solutions to increase productivity in the industrial, defense and aerospace sectors. They simplify your work and generate value by providing you with strategic insights and opportunities to optimize productivity. To do so, they master the four axes of artificial intelligence: perception, reasoning, learning and action.

LEGION

Acquisition in 2018
LEGION is a world developer of pedestrian simulation software. The scientifically validated software accurately simulates and analyzes people’s step-by-step journey through rail/metro stations, stadia, shopping malls and airports. Designers and owners use it to model, test and deliver operational, commercial, footfall, wayfinding, crowd management, and safety strategies. LEGION simulation is based on extensive research of people’s behavior in real contexts. As it microscopically accounts for individual decision making, crowd formation and patterns of movement emerge naturally.

Agency9

Acquisition in 2018
Agency9 is a leading provider of web and mobile solutions for 3D visualisation of geographic information and maps for collaboration and communication. The company was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Synchro

Acquisition in 2018
Synchro, Ltd. provides project management solutions. It provides Synchro 4D, a project management and 4D visualisation solution that incorporates the ability to define and represent the physical properties of resources, and communicate these in 3D and 4D. The company also provides Synchro Server that acts as a bridge between project participants and enables to broadcast the changes made on one client to all other connected participants. Its products are used in various construction and refurbishment projects in commercial, civil, and residential segments. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Coventry, the United Kingdom.

SoilVision Systems

Acquisition in 2018
SoilVision has championed 3D conceptual design and analysis of slope stability, groundwater flow, stress/deformation, contaminant transport, thermal flows in saturated/unsaturated soils, and coupled processes for geotechnical engineers and hydrogeologists. The software solves complex problems by performing numerical modeling and analysis of earth structures in the areas of soil and rock slope stability of earth dams, open pits, levees, embankments, and retaining walls. The software has been utilized for basic designs as well as advanced unsaturated analysis. The software is utilized extensively in the mining industry for the design and evaluation of large engineered earth structures.

Plaxis

Acquisition in 2018
Plaxis is a global leader in geotechnical engineering software, specializing in applications based on the finite element method. With a strong reputation as the industry standard, Plaxis serves users in over 100 countries, including project owners, contractors, and consultants across various sectors such as civil engineering, oil and gas, offshore industries, and governmental organizations. The company provides custom software development, support services, and educational resources, helping clients effectively address complex geotechnical modeling challenges.

S-Cube Futuretech

Acquisition in 2018
S-Cube's primary focus is designing and developing software based Process Automation and Integration Solutions for the Engineering Industry. The guiding principle is to develop solutions that are simple to use and maintain while seamlessly integrating with the operating environment of the user.

Comply Serve

Acquisition in 2016
Comply Serve is a software company offering compliance and validation solutions to highly regulated industries. The company evolved out of the world's leading provider of requirements management solutions, Telelogic AB, where the founding team discovered a significant and largely untapped market opportunity for project supply chain compliance solutions. After 3 years spent researching the compliance market, it started trading in January 2006.

e-on software

Acquisition in 2015
E-on software has a very strong brand identity in the DCC/CG market and will continue to remain as a branded identity under Bentley Systems.

Acute3D

Acquisition in 2015
Software development of Smart3DCapture solutions (automatic 3D reconstruction from photos)

Microprotol

Acquisition in 2012
Microprotol is a company that was acquired by Bentley Systems in 2012.

SpecWave

Acquisition in 2012
SpecWave is a company that was acquired by Bentley Systems in 2012.

Ivara Corp

Acquisition in 2012
Software Solution for Maintenance and Operational Efficiency

InspectTech

Acquisition in 2012
InspectTech is a provider of mobile inspection and asset management solutions, which enable clients to more effectively collect, analyze and manage inspection data. InspectTech’s software solutions lowers the total cost of inspections and guides the users to better, more informative decision making. Their software offers numerous advantages, including advanced report generation, security features, searching capabilities/data retrieval, enhanced richness of data (pictures, video, audio, and other PDF files) and many other features which add to the overall quality of the reports and productivity of management. InspectTech’s software can be used on a wide variety of assets such as; bridges, culverts, signs, light poles, antenna towers, storm water, guardrails, retaining walls, and other ancillary structures.

FormSys

Acquisition in 2011
FormSys (Formation Design Systems Pty Ltd) is a software development company specialising in 3D software for design, analysis and construction. Specialist areas of application include naval architecture and shipbuilding, offshore engineering and structural engineering.

Enterprise Informatics

Acquisition in 2010
Enterprise Informatics, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and support of a suite of integrated document, configuration, and records management software products. It primarily offers eB, an integrated enterprise information management suite, which enables organizations to create, capture, store, manage, share, and distribute critical business information regarding their customers, products, assets, and processes. The eB suite also enables them to maintain information about the configuration of their products, assets, and infrastructures. The company provides various applications in a single integrated environment that include document/content management, imaging, workflow, item management, requirements management, change management, and records management. Enterprise Informatics serves various industries, including utilities, transportation, and state and local governments. It offers its products and services through direct sales force, third-party value added resellers, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturers primarily in the United States and Europe. The company, formerly known as Altris Software, Inc., was founded in 1981. It later changed its name to Spescom Software, Inc. and to Enterprise Informatics, Inc. in 2007. Enterprise Informatics is headquartered in San Diego, California.
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