Archive: Cambashi Webinar on CAE Opportunties

Buyin' 'em up

 

Cambashi is a CAD market analysis firm out of England, and this week it held a Webinar intriguingly named "Assessing Investment Opportunities in the CAE market." (The company also provides consulting and training.) I listened in to hear what they had to say.

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One of the first stats blew me away: There are 470 non-EDA companies providing 2D and 3D CAE and physics simulation software. The biggest names are listed below.

 

As the Cambashi Webinar was about the opportunities in acquiring a CAE firm, one obvious purchaser that jumped out at me is Bricsys, which could use analysis to compliment its advanced design capabilities. 

Here is a slide on investment scenarios:

Cambashi maintains a dashboard that tracks many CAE companies, which presumably would help you decide which CAE vendor to acquire, based on criteria like these: 

• Growth rate of the CAE vendors
• Specialty areas, such as which kinds of simulation and analysis they do
• Future plans

Well, that, and the cost of acquiring the software company.

http://www.cambashi.com/cae-market-data

 

Comments

[Randall Newton]

The difference between CAE and CAD is that in CAE one size does NOT fit all. Each little company (many of these are very small) has its own unique algorithm for a specific engineering process. Consolidating this industry via CAD company (or holding companies like Hexagon) will be like playing Pokemon Go ... gotta catch them all!