Intelligen

What Intelligen does

Intelligen, Inc. is a privately held, founder-operated software company founded in 1991 and headquartered in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, with additional sales presence in Freehold (NJ), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Brazil. It develops and markets desktop-based engineering software for the process manufacturing industries, with technology that originated at MIT and has been continuously extended over more than three decades. Its core products are SuperPro Designer (a comprehensive process simulation tool covering material and energy balances, cost analysis, equipment sizing, and environmental impact assessment for batch and continuous processes), SchedulePro (a finite capacity scheduling tool for multi-product batch and semi-continuous facilities), and EnviroPro Designer (an environmental module for wastewater treatment, water recycling, and air pollution control). The integrated "Intelligen Suite" combines SuperPro and SchedulePro for design, capacity analysis, debottlenecking, and production planning workflows.

The company sells enterprise site licenses with annual maintenance contracts on a quote-based pricing model, complemented by free functional trial editions that drive self-service evaluation. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales through regional contacts with a product-led-growth motion anchored by trial downloads and a substantial YouTube training library. Customer segments are organized by vertical, with primary focus on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, specialty chemicals, and food and consumer products, and secondary focus on metallurgy and materials, water and environmental applications, and academia/research. The customer base includes more than 500 industrial sites globally (including Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK, Genentech, Biogen, BASF, DuPont, J&J, Eli Lilly, P&G, PepsiCo, and Lonza) and more than 1,000 universities worldwide.

Revenue mechanics are dominated by recurring software license and maintenance fees; pricing is not publicly disclosed and is handled via direct sales engagement. The company reports no API, no public integrations, and no external SDK. There are no disclosed funding rounds, ownership changes, M&A activity, regulatory actions, or executive hires in the input data, and Walid Zaher is identified as a co-founder. The operating status is active with no indication of acquisition, closure, or IPO, and the business model appears to be cash-flow funded rather than venture- or PE-backed.

Name

Intelligen

Legal name

Intelligen, Inc.

Website

https://intelligen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Intelligen is a privately held software company founded in 1991 (MIT-origin technology) that sells desktop process simulation and scheduling tools — SuperPro Designer, SchedulePro, and EnviroPro Designer — to pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, and consumer product manufacturers, with 500+ industrial sites and 1,000+ universities globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Freehold

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: Intelligen generates revenue through selling software licenses for SuperPro Designer, SchedulePro, and EnviroPro Designer. The company offers trial editions for evaluation and provides technical support and training services as part of maintenance contracts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Intelligen develops and markets Windows-based desktop software tools (SuperPro Designer, SchedulePro, and EnviroPro Designer) for process simulation, computer-aided process design, capacity analysis, production planning, finite capacity scheduling, debottlenecking, environmental impact assessment, and project economic evaluation. These tools are sold as enterprise site licenses to pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, consumer products, metallurgy, and engineering companies, with annual maintenance contracts covering technical support and training.

Product overview

Intelligen offers a suite of desktop-based process simulation and scheduling tools for the process manufacturing industries. The core offering consists of SuperPro Designer (process simulation and cost analysis), SchedulePro (finite capacity scheduling), and EnviroPro Designer (environmental module for wastewater and air pollution). The Intelligen Suite combines SuperPro and SchedulePro for integrated design, capacity analysis, and production scheduling. These are Windows-based engineering software tools used by pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, and consumer product companies worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SuperPro Designer: Comprehensive process simulation software for modeling, evaluating, and optimizing batch and continuous processes across pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, and other industries
• SchedulePro
• EnviroPro Designer

Products and services

• SuperPro Designer Comprehensive process simulation tool for modeling, evaluating, and optimizing batch and continuous processes in pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, and related industries. Provides material and energy balances, cost analysis, equipment sizing, and environmental impact assessment under a single platform. Used by process development, process engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• SchedulePro Finite capacity scheduling (FCS) tool for multi-product batch and semi-continuous manufacturing facilities. Generates feasible and optimized production schedules respecting constraints on equipment availability, work areas, labor, utilities, and material inventories, and supports plant floor execution, rescheduling, and web-based publication of schedules.
• EnviroPro Designer Environmental engineering software focused on wastewater treatment (physical and biological), water recycling, and air pollution control applications. Enables modeling, cost analysis, and optimization of environmental processes for companies and facilities dealing with water purification and pollution control.
• Intelligen Suite Integrated software suite combining SuperPro Designer and SchedulePro for process simulation, design, capacity analysis, production planning, scheduling, debottlenecking, environmental impact assessment, and project economic evaluation for process manufacturing industries.
• Training and Consulting Services Paid training courses and consulting services supporting license holders of SuperPro Designer, SchedulePro, and EnviroPro Designer, delivered through web meetings and supported by technical support teams handling email, telephone, and training inquiries.

Named customers15 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aspen Technology (AspenTech, now part of Emerson): AspenTech is the leading process simulation vendor (Aspen Plus, Aspen Batch Process Optimizer) used across pharma, chemicals, and petrochemicals. It directly competes with SuperPro Designer for batch/continuous process modeling and is Intelligen's closest head-to-head competitor in process simulation.
• Aveva: AVEVA offers process simulation and manufacturing operations software (including legacy PRO/II, SimSci, and DYNSIM). It overlaps with Intelligen's batch/continuous process modeling, scheduling, and capacity analysis capabilities for process manufacturers.
• Honeywell (UniSim): Honeywell's UniSim Design suite competes directly with SuperPro Designer in process simulation for refining, chemicals, and increasingly pharmaceuticals. Both target batch/continuous process modeling with cost analysis and design optimization features.
• Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA: BIOVIA provides process simulation, formulation, and bio-process design tools targeting life sciences and chemicals. It is a direct competitor to Intelligen in biopharma process modeling and technology transfer use cases.
• KBC (Yokogawa): KBC, now part of Yokogawa, provides process simulation, scheduling, and operational optimization software for refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals. It directly competes with Intelligen in process modeling and production planning for batch/continuous operations.
• Process Systems Enterprise (PSE): PSE offers gPROMS, a model-based process simulation and digital twin platform for chemicals, pharma, and energy. It is a close competitor in advanced process modeling and optimization, particularly for pharmaceutical process development.

Broad incumbents

• Siemens Digital Industries (Simcenter): Siemens offers simulation, digital twin, and process engineering tools across a broad industrial portfolio. While its primary focus is broader simulation and PLM, parts of its portfolio overlap with Intelligen's process simulation and scheduling offerings in manufacturing.
• ANSYS: ANSYS provides multiphysics engineering simulation used in process and equipment design. While broader in scope than Intelligen, it overlaps in the simulation-driven design and optimization of manufacturing processes.

Others

• Cadence Design Systems: Cadence is an EDA and system design software vendor whose computational simulation capabilities could potentially extend into process modeling. While not a direct competitor, it represents the broader trend of simulation-software consolidation relevant to Intelligen's positioning.

Regional players

• Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk): Rockwell's FactoryTalk and batch/recipe management software addresses scheduling and control in batch manufacturing, partially overlapping with SchedulePro's finite capacity scheduling for process manufacturers, though with stronger control-system integration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/IntelligenInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/intelligen/?viewAsMember=true

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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