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Onshape wants engineers to lose the files, keep the ideas
The people who helped build desktop CAD returned with a browser, a shared database and an awkward question: how much of engineering is really file management? Now part of PTC, Onshape is selling teams a different way to work.
Aras fired its sales team and made the software free. Airbus came calling.
The Andover software maker spent seven slow years selling PLM the usual way. Its 2007 reset - free software, paid certainty, and customizations that survive upgrades - turned a near-stall into an enterprise foothold.
Revalize Bought the Software Under the Factory Floor. Now It Has to Make the Pieces Fit
Revalize stitched together 19 specialist brands to give manufacturers one route from sketch to quote. The opportunity is large; so is the integration job.
Pradyut Paul
Pradyut Paul is the CEO and co-founder of Bild, a San Francisco cloud-native product data management (PDM) platform built for hardware engineers. A former RFIC designer at Raytheon and hardware program manager at Apple (iPhone 8 through 11, early AirTags), he started Bild while earning his MBA at Yale, raised $3M in seed funding months after graduating in 2021, and pivoted the company toward version control and collaboration for mechanical engineering teams - growing revenue tenfold in 2023.