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Largest Design & Engineering Software Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Adobe, Autodesk and PTC.
 | Cadence Design Systems is a provider of electronic design automation software, intellectual property, and system design and analysis products. EDA software automates and aids in the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. Cadence offers a portfolio of design IP, as well as system design and analysis products, which enables system-level analysis and verification solutions. | $374 | +30% | $103B | $105B | 19.8x | 41.4x | ||
| Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software and intellectual property products. EDA software automates and aids in the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. Synopsys’ comprehensive portfolio is benefiting from a convergence of semiconductor companies moving up the stack of technologies toward systems-like companies, and systems companies moving down-stack toward in-house chip design. The resulting expansion in EDA customers alongside secular digitalization of various end markets benefits EDA vendors like Synopsys. | $525 | +13% | $101B | $109B | 15.5x | 39.0x | ||
| Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with compelling content multiple operating systems, devices, and media. The company operates with three segments: digital media content creation, digital experience for marketing solutions, and publishing for legacy products (less than 5% of revenue). | $245 | -41% | $99B | $99B | 4.2x | 8.6x | ||
| Founded in 1982, Autodesk is a multinational software company best known for pioneering computer-aided design, or CAD, with its AutoCAD product. Nowadays, Autodesk provides design software for a variety of verticals, including architecture & construction, manufacturing, and media & entertainment. Autodesk products have been used in some of the world's most iconic landmarks, like Burj Khalifa, and well-known movie titles like Avatar. | $241 | -19% | $51B | $51B | 7.1x | 17.9x | ||
| PTC is a US-based global company that offers high-end computer-assisted design, product lifecycle management, and augmented reality solutions that industrial manufacturers commonly use on factory floors. Founded in 1985, PTC is a major player in parametric design and serves some of the world’s most well-known equipment manufacturers, such as Caterpillar, Garmin, and Thermo Fisher. | $148 | -12% | $17B | $18B | 6.6x | 13.4x | ||
| Figma Inc is engaged in transforming ideas into digital products and experiences. The group focuses on the entire software creation lifecycle, enabling it to quickly launch new products on Figma's browser-based platform and reinforcing its belief that design extends well beyond a single step or role. The company adopts an expansive view, as design is more than how something looks, feels, or works. It derives its revenue from sales of subscriptions for access to its platform. | $23 | -- | $12B | $10B | 9.9x | 73.9x | ||
| Unity Software Inc provides a software platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The platform can be used to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The business is spread across the United States, Greater China, EMEA, APAC, and other Americas, and key revenue is derived from the EMEA region. Its products are used in the gaming industry, retail, automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction. | $26 | -2% | $11B | $11B | 6.1x | 27.5x | ||
| Bentley Systems is a software vendor that caters to civil engineers, constructors, and geospatial professionals by enabling design, simulation, and data management of infrastructure assets such as roads and bridges. While Bentley is smaller than many other design software companies, it is a market leader across a handful of specialty areas, including public works, electricity grids, and transit. | $33 | -31% | $10B | $11B | 7.4x | 21.2x | ||
| PDF Solutions Inc provides products and services designed to empower organizations across the semiconductor and electronics ecosystem to connect, collect, manage, and analyze data about design, equipment, manufacturing, and test to improve the yield and quality of their products and operational efficiency. The Company's products, services, and solutions include proprietary software, physical intellectual property (IP) for integrated circuit (IC) designs, electrical measurement hardware tools, methodologies, and professional services. | $46 | +161% | $2B | $2B | 9.0x | 106.6x | ||
| Rand Worldwide Inc provides design automation, engineering, facilities, and data management software marketplace. The company provides value-added services, such as training, technical support, and other consulting and professional services to businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions. The firm operates in five divisions namely, IMAGINiT Technologies, Rand 3D, Rand Simulation, Facilities Management and ASCENT. | $16 | +3% | $521M | $521M | - | - | ||
| Forward Industries Inc is a provider of carrying and protective solutions. The company operates in two segments: design and digital assets. The design segment consists of two operating segments (IPS and Kablooe, which have been aggregated into one reportable segment) that provide a full spectrum of hardware and software product design and engineering services to customers predominantly. | $5 | -- | $343M | $379M | 20.8x | (352.0x) | ||
| Silvaco Group Inc is a provider of technology computer aided design (TCAD) software, electronic data automation (EDA) software and semiconductor intellectual property (SIP). TCAD, EDA and SIP solutions enable semiconductor and photonics companies to increase productivity, accelerate their products’ time-to-market and reduce their development and manufacturing costs. It is developing the technology behind the chip and providing solutions that span from atoms to systems, starting with providing software for the atomic level simulation of semiconductor and photonics material for devices, to providing software and SIP for the design and analysis of circuits and system level solutions. | $10 | +110% | $324M | $315M | 5.0x | (29.8x) | ||
| Digimarc Corp is engaged in digital watermarking technologies. The Digimarc Illuminate platform is a distinctive software as a service (SaaS) cloud-based platform for digital connectivity that provides the tools for the application of digital watermarks and dynamic Quick Response (QR) codes, software (digital twins) that enables various systems and devices to interact with those data carriers and a centralized platform for capturing insights about digital interactions and automating activities based on that information. The company generates revenue through commercial and government applications of its technology. The company derives its revenue from software development services, subscriptions for products and related services, and licensing of patents. | $14 | +5% | $304M | $299M | 8.8x | (12.1x) | ||
| Median | $33 | +3% | $11B | $11B | 8.1x | 19.5x |
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