What CivilGEO does

CivilGEO, Inc. is a privately held US software company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 2010, that builds water resources engineering software for the civil engineering market. Its three core products — GeoSTORM (stormwater modeling), GeoHECRAS (1D/2D river hydraulics built around the US Army Corps of Engineers' HEC-RAS standard), and GeoHECHMS (hydrologic modeling built around HEC-HMS) — operate inside an AutoCAD-compatible user interface and integrate natively with MicroStation, ArcGIS, and multiple mapping providers (Google Maps, Bing, HERE, OpenStreetMap). The platform also bundles curated catch basin component libraries from leading foundries (Neenah, East Jordan, Campbell, Deeter) to shorten model assembly time, and supports 24x7 expert technical support with localized websites in eight languages.

The company sells primarily through a sales-led motion with parallel self-serve free-trial downloads, targeting civil engineering design firms/consultants and federal, state, and local government agencies responsible for stormwater management, floodplain mapping, dam breach analysis, and infrastructure planning. Revenue is generated through software licenses (perpetual or subscription) for the desktop products, with specific pricing not publicly disclosed. CivilGEO is founder-led under Engineering Director Chris Maeder, has 51–100 employees, and reports more than 2,500 customer organizations worldwide. It holds Autodesk Authorized Developer status, has won G2 Best Software Awards in Civil Engineering Design Software for three consecutive years (2024–2026), and carries a 4.7/5 rating from 500+ G2 user reviews. The only known external capital event is a $1.85M round in October 2011; no M&A activity is disclosed in the available data.

Name

CivilGEO

Legal name

CivilGEO, Inc.

Website

https://civilgeo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

CivilGEO develops AutoCAD-compatible water resources engineering software — GeoSTORM, GeoHECRAS, and GeoHECHMS — serving 2,500+ civil engineering firms and government agencies worldwide with stormwater, river hydraulics, and hydrologic modeling tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA), Coalbed Methane (CBM) / Coal Seam Gas (CSG) (EUAAAAAD)

Keywords

• Water resources modeling
• Civil engineering software
• Stormwater modeling
• Hydrologic modeling
• River hydraulics software

Headquarters

HQ city

Madison

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: CivilGEO generates revenue through sale of desktop software licenses for GeoSTORM, GeoHECRAS, and GeoHECHMS products. The software requires activation with product serial numbers, suggesting a traditional license model with potential for subscriptions or perpetual licenses.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

CivilGEO develops and sells desktop water resources engineering software for civil engineers. Its products—GeoSTORM (stormwater modeling), GeoHECRAS (HEC-RAS river hydraulics), and GeoHECHMS (HEC-HMS hydrologic modeling)—integrate with AutoCAD, MicroStation, and GIS platforms to streamline model creation, simulation, and results review for engineering firms and government agencies.

Product overview

CivilGEO offers a unified suite of three water resources engineering software products designed for civil engineers. GeoSTORM provides stormwater modeling capabilities for urban and rural models; GeoHECRAS enables rapid construction of 1D and 2D HEC-RAS river hydraulics models; and GeoHECHMS delivers hydrologic modeling based on the Army Corps of Engineers HEC-HMS standard. The products share CAD and GIS integration capabilities with AutoCAD, MicroStation, and ArcGIS, and feature integrated mapping services including Google Maps, Bing Maps, ESRI, HERE, and Open Street Maps. The suite is designed to accelerate engineering workflows and streamline analysis review processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GeoSTORM: Stormwater modeling software that accelerates the process of designing, analyzing, and reviewing urban and rural stormwater models in an AutoCAD compatible user interface.
• GeoHECRAS
• GeoHECHMS

Products and services

• GeoSTORM

Quantifiable outcome

• Complete engineering projects in half the time
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google MapscoreTechnology or IntegrationCivilGEO products integrate Google Maps mapping services to enhance the details of engineering models. Users can blend Google Maps and high-resolution aerial imagery directly into their engineering models for improved visualization and accuracy.
• ESRI (ArcGIS)coreTechnology or IntegrationCivilGEO software integrates with ESRI ArcGIS for GIS data integration, allowing engineers to incorporate geographic information system data into their water resource models.
• Autodesk (AutoCAD/MicroStation)coreTechnology or IntegrationCivilGEO is an Autodesk Authorized Developer with products featuring AutoCAD-compatible user interfaces and MicroStation integration, allowing direct CAD workflow integration.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Trimble: Trimble's civil engineering and infrastructure portfolio (Trimble Business Center, Quadri, Novapoint) overlaps with CivilGEO in serving civil engineers and surveyors designing infrastructure projects. Trimble is a broad incumbent pursuing integrated geospatial-to-construction workflows that compete for budget share within the same customer organizations.
• Autodesk: Autodesk is both a partner (CivilGEO is an Authorized Developer leveraging AutoCAD) and a competitor via InfoDrainage, InfoWorks ICM (acquired with Innovyze), and Civil 3D, which all serve overlapping stormwater, drainage, and hydrology workflows for the same civil engineering buyer. Its broad AEC platform and aggressive push into cloud/collaboration make Autodesk the dominant incumbent CivilGEO must coexist with.
• Bentley Systems: Bentley's OpenFlows product line (CivilStorm, SewerGEMS, PondPack, FlowMaster) and HEC-RAS-compatible hydraulic tools directly compete with CivilGEO's GeoSTORM, GeoHECRAS, and GeoHECHMS for the same civil engineering and water utility buyers. As a large public infrastructure software incumbent, Bentley is the most relevant strategic competitor despite serving a much broader portfolio.

Others

• ESRI: ESRI's ArcGIS platform is a core integration partner for CivilGEO but also an alternative backbone for spatial water resources analysis. Many of CivilGEO's government agency and engineering firm customers run ESRI-centric geospatial stacks, making ArcGIS both a distribution channel and a potential competitive surface for advanced hydrology and geospatial analytics.

Direct peers

• Aquaveo: Aquaveo develops SMS (Surface-water Modeling System) and WMS (Watershed Modeling System), which compete with CivilGEO's GeoHECRAS and GeoHECHMS for surface water, groundwater, and watershed modeling projects. Aquaveo serves the same civil engineering and academic/government buyer base with comparable HEC-RAS-adjacent modeling tools.
• DHI Group: DHI's MIKE Powered by DHI suite (MIKE URBAN, MIKE HYDRO River, MIKE 11) is a direct specialist competitor in urban stormwater, river hydraulics, and hydrologic modeling used by the same engineering consulting and water utility buyers CivilGEO targets. DHI represents a comparable niche pure-play in water resources modeling software with global reach.
• BOSS International: BOSS International develops hydrology and hydraulic modeling software (BOSS SMS, HEC-Pack) for stormwater, sewer, and water distribution networks, serving a similar niche of civil engineers and municipalities. It is a smaller direct specialist competitor in the same HEC-RAS/HEC-HMS-compatible engineering software category.
• Innovyze (now part of Autodesk): Pre-acquisition, Innovyze's InfoSWMM, InfoDrainage, and InfoWorks ICM were the closest direct competitors to CivilGEO's GeoSTORM and GeoHECHMS in urban drainage and hydrologic modeling for utilities and consultants. Now under Autodesk, Innovyze technology continues to compete head-to-head with CivilGEO for stormwater and hydraulic modeling deals.

Emerging players

• Progea (Hydronia): Hydronia, distributed by Progea, offers open-channel hydraulics and HEC-RAS compatible modeling tools focused on rivers and water distribution. It overlaps with CivilGEO's GeoHECRAS in 1D/2D river hydraulics use cases and represents a smaller niche competitor in the same specialty modeling category.
• Kisters: KISTERS provides hydrology and water information systems (3S, HydWeb, KiWIS) for water utilities, river authorities, and consultants, overlapping with CivilGEO's hydrologic and stormwater modeling use cases. While broader in scope, KISTERS is a relevant European-headquartered competitor targeting a subset of the same water resources engineering customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/CivilGeoSoftware
• Facebookfacebook.com/CivilGEOIncSoftware
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/civilgeo-engineering-software
• Xx.com/civilgeo

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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