Quickie: Bentley raises price in IPO
Quickie: Bentley raises price in IPO How interesting: Bentley just filed with the SEC to raise its price per share from $17 to $19, to $19 to $21 — that ups the value of the shares being sold to a max of $259,580,811. Why raise the offering price? Typically,...
Quickies: Bentley sets IPO price, Altair acquires for HPC
Quickies: Bentley sets IPO price, Altair acquires for HPC I go away for a couple of days, and what happens? Yup. Newsy things! Here are two items of interest: Bentley issued another update to its IPO filing, this time with prices for the shares. You can see it here....
Bentley’s S-1 shines a light on how private companies grow, “with engineers in charge”
Bentley’s S-1 shines a light on how private companies grow, “with engineers in charge” As you probably know, Bentley filed to go public a few weeks ago. I put up a quick blog about the filing that evening and promised to read the whole thing and...
Bentley files its IPO — again. Finally.
Bentley files its IPO — again. Finally. So much S-1 to read … so little time. You can see the filing for yourself here. A couple of quick highlights from the front of the document: This is an IPO for shares owned by others, as a way of creating a liquid...
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller Did you know that Bentley has an Acceleration Fund? Me neither! But it, and the company, have been making newsworthy announcements over the last few days....
Bentley invests in digital twins for water infrastructure
So much news …. Amidst a lot of earnings comes this, from Bentley Systems: Bentley today said that it has invested an undisclosed amount in Digital Water Works, a company that makes digital twin solutions for “smart wet infrastructure” (my quotes),...
Bentley gets into street signs
I live on a street with the popular girl’s name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I’ve often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made —...
Like shuffling along in a crowd? No? Simulation to the rescue!
At last year’s Bentley Year in Infrastructure, I was introduced to something I had never seen before: pedestrian modeling. In my naïveté, I assumed that engineers observed humans moving through spaces and used that to inform how they design subway stations,...
