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,...
May 14, 2018 | Hot Topics
Do you remember 2015? It feels so long ago. Bentley Systems gave us a glimpse into its business progress, calling it an Annual Report. Then came the possibility of an initial public offering (IPO), quiet periods, market watching to figure out timing (do you remember...
Apr 26, 2018 | Hot Topics
For much of the last 25 years, Boston was a construction site. The Big Dig project put an elevated highway under ground, to improve traffic flow and create green space where the roadway had once divided the city. What many people didn’t recognize was how much...
