
Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology optimizes the analysis, management, and visualization of business and engineering information. The company's products include HyperWorks, an enterprise simulation solution for design exploration and decision-making; and PBS GridWorks, a software environment for grid, cluster, and on-demand computing. It also provides product development consultancy services, business intelligence software solutions, and solid state lighting products, as well as develops and markets industrial design/styling software. The company serves automotive, aerospace, government and defense, heavy equipment, consumer products, life and earth sciences, oil and gas, and financial services industries. It sells its products through resellers and distributors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It has regional offices and locations in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States.

Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology optimizes the analysis, management, and visualization of business and engineering information. The company's products include HyperWorks, an enterprise simulation solution for design exploration and decision-making; and PBS GridWorks, a software environment for grid, cluster, and on-demand computing. It also provides product development consultancy services, business intelligence software solutions, and solid state lighting products, as well as develops and markets industrial design/styling software. The company serves automotive, aerospace, government and defense, heavy equipment, consumer products, life and earth sciences, oil and gas, and financial services industries. It sells its products through resellers and distributors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It has regional offices and locations in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States.
Founded: 1985
Headquarters: Troy, Michigan
Core products: Simulation, HPC, data analytics, AI software (e.g., Altair One, RapidMiner)
Public / M&A activity: Completed IPO (2017); announced acquisition by Siemens (2024)
Computational simulation, high-performance computing, data analytics, and AI for engineering and enterprise workflows.
1985
Enterprise software; engineering and data analytics
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Raised $156 million in initial public offering
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Private placement financing
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Altair led seed funding for Xscape Photonics with $10M investment
“Matrix Capital Management has been a significant shareholder and participated in a $200M private placement”
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Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities. For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. 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