Cascade Technologies

Name

Cascade Technologies

Website

https://cascadetechnologies.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Software Licenses: Enterprise software licensing model for CFD simulation platforms. Offers both cloud-hosted and on-premises installation options. Pricing is quote-based, requiring direct contact with sales team.
2. Professional Services: CAE Engineering Services and Support including training, implementation, and technical support services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Cascade Technologies develops multi-physics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for engineering simulation. The company's platform enables engineers to model fluid flow, heat transfer, turbulence, and related physical phenomena for design and analysis applications. Its CFD technology was commercialized under the Fidelity CFD brand and adopted across aerospace, automotive, marine, and turbomachinery engineering programs.

Product overview

Cadence's Fidelity CFD Platform is a comprehensive, platform-plus-modules computational fluid dynamics solution comprising the main Fidelity CFD platform with integrated sub-products including the Fidelity Charles Solver (high-fidelity LES solver), Fidelity Fine Design3D (ML-driven optimization), Fidelity Flow Solver (thermal and fluids), Fidelity CFD for Turbomachinery, Fidelity Fine Marine, and mesh generation tools (Fidelity Autogrid and Fidelity Pointwise). The Millennium M1 CFD Supercomputer provides turnkey hardware-software integration. The platform addresses aerospace, automotive, marine, and turbomachinery industries with end-to-end workflows for pre-processing, simulation, and post-processing, leveraging GPU acceleration for unprecedented performance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fidelity CFD Platform Multi-physics computational fluid dynamics software used by engineers to simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and turbulence in product design and analysis across aerospace, automotive, marine, and turbomachinery applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 9X throughput improvement and 17X energy reduction with GPU acceleration
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic collaboration to accelerate CFD applications. Leverages NVIDIA GPU technology for CFD simulations. Millennium M1 Supercomputer optimized for NVIDIA GPU architectures providing 9X throughput improvement and 17X energy reduction.
• Technology PartnerscoreTechnology or IntegrationEcosystem of technology partners supporting the Cadence platform through integrations and interoperability partnerships.
• Channel PartnersminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGlobal network of channel partners distributing and reselling Cadence solutions.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ANSYS: Largest independent CAE vendor, with Fluent and CFX as the dominant general-purpose CFD solvers. Comparable as the dominant commercial CFD platform competing for the same aerospace, automotive, marine, and turbomachinery workloads Cascade targets.
• Autodesk: Embeds CFD capability within Fusion 360 and its design/manufacturing suite. Comparable as a broad design-and-simulation platform reaching into the same automotive and industrial CFD customer base.
• Siemens Digital Industries Software: Owner of Star-CCM+, a leading CFD platform tightly integrated with the broader Siemens Xcelerator PLM/MCAD stack. Comparable as a full-stack engineering simulation vendor serving the same aerospace, automotive, and turbomachinery customer base.
• Altair Engineering: Offers ultraFluidX and a broader simulation portfolio (including HyperWorks) competing in external aerodynamics and vehicle CFD. Comparable as a multi-product CAE vendor addressing overlapping aerospace and automotive CFD use cases.
• Cadence Design Systems: Owner of the Fidelity CFD Platform, which the provided source data repeatedly attributes to Cascade Technologies. Highly comparable as a direct competitor in multi-physics CFD for aerospace, automotive, and turbomachinery, and a likely acquirer of specialist CFD IP.
• Hexagon (MSC Software / Cradle CFD): Provides Cradle CFD and other simulation tools within its broader manufacturing intelligence portfolio. Comparable as an incumbent CAE vendor serving overlapping aerospace, automotive, and turbomachinery simulation needs.
• Dassault Systèmes: Provides the SIMULIA brand of simulation tools (including CFD via PowerFLOW/XFlow) integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Comparable as a broad incumbent CAE vendor in the same engineering simulation category.

Emerging players

• SimScale: Cloud-native CAE platform offering browser-based CFD simulations. Comparable as a modern, cloud-first CFD vendor addressing some of the same accessibility and time-to-result pain points Cascade's GPU-accelerated solver targets.
• Convergent Science: Developer of CONVERGE CFD, an autonomous meshing CFD solver focused on internal combustion engines and reacting flows. Comparable as a specialist, academically rooted CFD vendor competing for engineering simulation budgets in similar verticals.

Direct peers

• NUMECA International: Specialist CFD vendor whose Fine/Marine and FINE/Turbo products are explicitly mentioned as products in Cascade's competitive set. Directly comparable as a niche, high-fidelity CFD vendor with deep turbomachinery and marine expertise, recently integrated into Cadence's portfolio.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cascadetechcfd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cascade-technologies-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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