Knowde vs PTC
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Knowde is a San Francisco-based digital marketplace and AI platform for the chemical and ingredient industry; raised $183M including $60M Series C in Aug 2024 from Blue Cloud Ventures and Point72;
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Knowde is a San Francisco-based technology company founded to digitally transform the $5 trillion global chemicals and ingredients industry. The company operates the world's largest digital catalog of chemicals, ingredients, and polymers, enabling manufacturers, formulators, and procurement teams to search, sample, quote, and purchase from over 8,000 suppliers through a single platform. Knowde combines a comprehensive product database with AI-powered data management tools that help chemical suppliers clean, structure, and publish complex product information — making it discoverable and actionable for buyers across industries including consumer goods, coatings, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage.
Boston industrial CAD/PLM software (NASDAQ: PTC); FY2025 8.5% ARR growth, Kepware/ThingWorx IoT divested to TPG (Nov 2025) under new CEO Neil Barua competing with Siemens Teamcenter for discrete manufacturer PLM.
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PTC Inc. is a Boston, Massachusetts-based industrial software company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: PTC) as an S&P 500 component — providing computer-aided design (CAD), product lifecycle management (PLM), application lifecycle management (ALM), service lifecycle management (SLM), and industrial IoT software to manufacturers across aerospace, defense, automotive, medical devices, and industrial machinery. In FY2025 (fiscal year ended September 30, 2025), PTC reported 8.5% ARR growth and 16% free cash flow growth, with Q4 FY2025 revenue up 39% in constant currency and 18% year-over-year. CEO Neil Barua took over from long-tenured CEO James Heppelmann in February 2024 and introduced the "Barua Blueprint" refocusing PTC on its core CAD/PLM/ALM/SLM strengths. In November 2025, PTC announced the divestiture of its industrial IoT assets — Kepware and ThingWorx — to TPG, sharpening its portfolio around design and lifecycle management software. PTC's product portfolio includes Creo (3D parametric CAD for mechanical engineers), Windchill (PLM for product data and process management), Onshape (cloud-native CAD platform), and Arena (cloud-native PLM/QMS).
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