Sep 23, 2020 | Hot Topics
Bentley shares started trading under the BSY symbol at around 11:15 on Wednesday. Someone told me that the bookmaker, the brokerage firm that handles trading of the shares, had to determine the opening price, which I thought would be the price Bentley set last night,...
Sep 23, 2020 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Bentley IPO now at $22/share I am no expert at IPOs but this seems unusual to me: Bentley’s offering had originally set a price range of $17 to $19 per share, then yesterday that range was upped to $19 to $21 — and then last night, it was again...
Sep 22, 2020 | Hot Topics
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,...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hot Topics
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....
Sep 10, 2020 | Hot Topics
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...
Aug 21, 2020 | Hot Topics
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...
Jul 14, 2020 | Hot Topics
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....
Feb 12, 2019 | Hot Topics
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 —...
Jan 28, 2019 | Hot Topics
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,...
