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10About Autodesk
Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) offers 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries use Autodesk software to design, visualize, and simulate ideas.

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11:32 AM MYT Also holding out against the return-to-office movement is Airbnb Inc, which has said its roughly 6,000 employees can work from anywhere with regular meet-ups structured around product releases. — Bloomberg While many of the largest tech companies are joining a US corporate effort to compel employees back to the office, Atlassian Inc is among the firms remaining steadfast backers of remote work. Atlassian has committed to a workplace model without mandatory office attendance, Annie Dean, the company’s vice president of “team anywhere,” said in an interview. With more than 11,000 employees, Atlassian is “the largest company in the world committed to distributed work at this scale,” she said. Remote collaboration with periodic in-person gatherings boosts productivity and allows the Australian-founded software company to recruit better talent, Dean said. More than half of the people hired during the last year live over two hours from an office, she said. Also holding out against the return-to-office movement is Airbnb Inc, which has said its roughly 6,000 employees can work from anywhere with regular meet-ups structured around product releases. Software company Twilio Inc has no office-return rules for its 6,400 employees – about 60% of its workforce is in locations where the firm historically hasn’t had offices, chief executive officer Jeff Lawson said in a March interview. Autodesk Inc, Dropbox Inc, Okta Inc and Gitlab Inc are other tech employers without mandatory office attendance. “At a time when many companies are requiring employees to return to the office a certain number of days per week, Autodesk will stay the course and has no plans for corporate return-to-office mandates for hybrid and remote-based employees,” Rebecca Pearce, chief people officer at Autodesk, which had 13,7000 employees as of January, wrote in a blog post. Before Atlassian, Dean led Meta Platforms Inc’s remote work initiative. With a three-day-a-week office mandate beginning in September, the social media giant has joined the list of major employers pushing a return to the office. Amazon.com Inc will require some corporate workers to relocate to meet new office rules. International Business Machines Corp’s Arvind Krishna said in May that promotions will be rarer for those who aren’t on site. Beyond tech, companies from Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc to BlackRock Inc have bumped expected in-office time to four days a week. And plenty of firms have backpedaled from their previous positions. Zoom Video Communications Inc said early last year that most employees would be able to choose whether to work on site or not. Earlier this month, it mandated at least two days a week in the office. Salesforce Inc chief executive officer Marc Benioff, an early public advocate of remote work, has touted the importance of collaborating in person, with some salespeople called back to company offices. These new high-profile mandates aren’t showing up in return-to-office data. Attendance was at less than half of pre-Covid levels across 10 of the largest US business districts last week, according to data from Kastle Systems. That figure is roughly unchanged compared with the start of 2023. The San Jose, California area – home to many technology companies – recorded the lowest office attendance in that period at 37.5% of pre-pandemic levels. Atlassian’s Dean said she doesn’t anticipate that companies will uniformly march toward more restrictive office policies, adding that “a lot of these decisions are not well-grounded in data.” Real productivity problems include “back-to-back meetings, having minimal clarity about what goals you’re trying to move forward, overflowing inboxes, vague processes,” none of which are fixed by simply returning to the office, she said. – Bloomberg Related stories:
Autodesk Investments
34 Investments
Autodesk has made 34 investments. Their latest investment was in Transcend as part of their Series B on August 8, 2023.

Autodesk Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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8/3/2023 | Series B | Transcend | $20M | Yes | 1 | |
8/3/2023 | Series B | Transcend | $20M | Yes | 3 | |
11/16/2022 | Series A | Arcturus | $11M | Yes | 15 | |
9/8/2022 | Series A - II | |||||
6/21/2022 | Series B |
Date | 8/3/2023 | 8/3/2023 | 11/16/2022 | 9/8/2022 | 6/21/2022 |
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Round | Series B | Series B | Series A | Series A - II | Series B |
Company | Transcend | Transcend | Arcturus | ||
Amount | $20M | $20M | $11M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 1 | 3 | 15 |
Autodesk Portfolio Exits
14 Portfolio Exits
Autodesk has 14 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Conductor Technologies on January 25, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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1/25/2023 | Acquired | 9 | |||
4/30/2020 | Acquired - II | 3 | |||
2/12/2018 | Acquired | 1 | |||
Date | 1/25/2023 | 4/30/2020 | 2/12/2018 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Acquired - II | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Autodesk Acquisitions
78 Acquisitions
Autodesk acquired 78 companies. Their latest acquisition was The Wild on March 24, 2022.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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3/24/2022 | Seed / Angel | $4.88M | Acquired | 5 | ||
2/7/2022 | Grant | $1.79M | Acquired | 1 | ||
1/19/2022 | Seed / Angel | $2.86M | Acquired | 11 | ||
12/16/2021 | ||||||
4/15/2021 | Other |
Autodesk Partners & Customers
10 Partners and customers
Autodesk has 10 strategic partners and customers. Autodesk recently partnered with DPR Construction on July 7, 2023.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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7/25/2023 | Client | United States | DPR Picks Autodesk Construction Cloud as Its Projects’ Source of Truth Lynch adds that industrializing construction and moving prefabrication into factory environments are not without their challenges , but DPR Construction has the know-how , and the contractor 's relationship with Autodesk dates back to 2010 . | 1 | |
6/27/2023 | Partner | United States | Autodesk : and Esri partnership accelerates innovations in AEC Since we announced our strategic partnership with Esri , the global industry leader in Geographic Information System software , the convergence of Building Information Modeling with GIS continues to produce results for our customers . | 2 | |
6/6/2023 | Licensor | Crews by Core Integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud Helps Bring Live Schedules to the Field Crews by Core , a leading field scheduling platform for the construction industry , has announced a new integration with Autodesk ® , a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology , a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams . | 1 | ||
5/12/2023 | Licensee | ||||
5/2/2023 | Partner |
Date | 7/25/2023 | 6/27/2023 | 6/6/2023 | 5/12/2023 | 5/2/2023 |
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Type | Client | Partner | Licensor | Licensee | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | United States | United States | |||
News Snippet | DPR Picks Autodesk Construction Cloud as Its Projects’ Source of Truth Lynch adds that industrializing construction and moving prefabrication into factory environments are not without their challenges , but DPR Construction has the know-how , and the contractor 's relationship with Autodesk dates back to 2010 . | Autodesk : and Esri partnership accelerates innovations in AEC Since we announced our strategic partnership with Esri , the global industry leader in Geographic Information System software , the convergence of Building Information Modeling with GIS continues to produce results for our customers . | Crews by Core Integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud Helps Bring Live Schedules to the Field Crews by Core , a leading field scheduling platform for the construction industry , has announced a new integration with Autodesk ® , a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology , a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams . | ||
Sources | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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