M&A Deal Summary

Autodesk Acquires Solid Angle SL

On April 18, 2016, Autodesk acquired software company Solid Angle SL

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Autodesk’s 30th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Autodesk’s 1st transaction in Spain.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-04-18
Target Solid Angle SL
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Autodesk
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Solid Angle SL

Madrid, Spain
Solid Angle is a developer of arnold, an advanced, ray-tracing image renderer for high-quality 3D animation and visual effects creation used in film, television and advertising worldwide.

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Buyer

Autodesk

San Rafael, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Software
Employees15,300
Revenue 6.1B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Autodesk's corporate headquarters in Mill Valley, California.
Entrance to Autodesk's corporate headquarters in Mill Valley, California.

Autodesk is a provider of design software for customers in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, digital media, consumer, and entertainment industries. Autodesk's sophisticated software products enable customers to experience their ideas before they are real. Customers are able to imagine, design, and create their ideas by visualizing, simulating and analyzing real-world performance early in the design process by creating and manipulating digital prototypes. Autodesk's professional software products are sold globally, both directly to customers and through a network of resellers and distributors. Additionally, the Company sells a line of consumer products for digital art, personal design and creativity, and home design. Autodesk was founded in 1982 and is based in San Rafael, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 48 of 61
Sector: Software M&A 30 of 37
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 42 of 55
Country: Spain M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-09-24 netfabb

Lupburg, Germany

netfabb GmbH is a developer of software solutions for industrial additive design and manufacturing.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-04-24 Pixlr

Stockholm, Sweden

Pixlr is a provider of cloud-based image tools and utilities such as photo editing tool Pixlr Editor, Pixlr Express, Pixlr iOS/Android App and Pixlr-O-Matic. Pixlr was founded in 2008 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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