What Innova Advanced Technologies does

Innova Advanced Technologies SAS is a privately held French SaaS company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Grenoble, France, that develops the Innova Project and Design Management (PDM) Platform. The platform is an API-based software solution designed for semiconductor and electronics companies that need to manage the complexity of design flows, EDA tool licenses, LSF-based compute jobs, and human resources across large SoC and multi-domain electronic design projects. Its core capabilities include design flow management with full traceability across jobs, users, and projects; real-time resource tracking and license optimization; machine learning-based resource prediction derived from historical project data; and sustainability metrics covering CO2 emissions and water consumption for eco-design reporting.

The platform serves two primary buyer personas: design engineers and chip leads running complex multi-domain projects, and design managers overseeing CAD teams, procurement, and resource allocation. It is sold as an enterprise subscription on a quote-based, annual billing model, with no public pricing. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales supported by an event-driven motion — Innova actively participates at major industry conferences (DAC, DSD) and runs webinars with industry media such as Semiwiki.com to generate leads and build thought leadership. The company is bootstrapped (capital stock of €10,000) with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) for the INNOVA PDM project, and operates with a 1-10 person team.

Name

Innova Advanced Technologies

Legal name

Innova Advanced Technologies SAS

Website

https://innova-advancedtech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Innova Advanced Technologies SAS provides the Innova PDM Platform, an API-based design flow and resource management software for semiconductor and electronics companies. The platform uses machine learning to predict EDA tool, compute, and human resource needs for complex SoC design projects, targeting design managers and engineering teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

EDA Cloud/SaaS, Design Data Management & Collaboration (HDAHAFAJ)

Keywords

• Semiconductor design software
• EDA resource management
• Design flow management
• Project design management
• SoC design platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Grenoble

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Subscription: PDM software platform sold as a subscription to semiconductor and electronics companies. Pricing appears to be quote-based, likely tiered by project count or organization size.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Innova sells a single Project and Design Management (PDM) software platform that helps semiconductor and electronics companies manage complex SoC and electronic system design projects. The platform provides a unified portal for design flow management, EDA tool license tracking, LSF-based job scheduling, human resource monitoring, and machine learning–based resource prediction. It is sold via enterprise subscription to design teams and CAD/design management groups in chip and electronics companies.

Product overview

Innova Advanced Technologies offers a single unified product — the Innova Project and Design Management (PDM) Platform — designed for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The platform serves as a comprehensive design project management solution that consolidates design flow management, human resources, computing resources, EDA tool licenses, and design libraries into one secured portal. It targets both designers and design managers of complex multi-domain projects spanning microelectronics to computer science. The platform incorporates machine learning for resource prediction and sustainability tracking, enabling companies to reduce design costs by up to 30% while also integrating eco-design criteria into project management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Innova PDM Platform: Project and Design Management (PDM) software platform for managing design flows, resources, EDA tool licenses, and LSF-based jobs for complex electronic and semiconductor design projects.

Products and services

• Innova Project and Design Management (PDM) Platform Unified design project management platform for the semiconductor and electronics industries that predicts and tracks design flows, human resources, computing resources, EDA tool licenses, and design libraries for complex SoC and electronic system design projects through a single secured portal, with machine learning–based resource prediction and sustainability metrics.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce design costs by up to 30%

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Flexera: Flexera specializes in software license and IT asset management, including EDA license optimization. It addresses a meaningful slice of Innova's resource and license tracking value proposition for chip design teams.
• Cadence Design Systems: Cadence offers comprehensive EDA tools with workflow and project management features for semiconductor and electronic system design. Its broad portfolio overlaps with Innova's flow and resource optimization value proposition.
• Synopsys: Synopsys is a leading EDA vendor whose broader platform includes design management and analytics capabilities that could absorb Innova's functionality. It is the most powerful broad incumbent competing for similar chip design project management budgets.
• Siemens EDA (Mentor Graphics): Siemens EDA provides EDA software with design management and analytics components for chip and electronic system design. It competes as a broad incumbent that could expand into the design flow and resource optimization space Innova occupies.

Emerging players

• Agnisys: Agnisys offers design and verification automation tools that integrate with chip design flows. It is an emerging player in the broader EDA tooling ecosystem adjacent to Innova's design project management platform.
• Blue Cheetah: Blue Cheetah acquired Methodics and offers a chip design platform combining interconnect IP and design management tools. It is an emerging player overlapping with Innova's design management focus for advanced SoC projects.
• Diagonal Systems: Diagonal Systems provides EDA workflow and infrastructure management tools for semiconductor design teams. It is an emerging player with overlapping design flow and compute resource management capabilities.

Direct peers

• ClioSoft: ClioSoft provides design data management, version control, and IP management for IC and semiconductor design flows. It is the closest direct competitor to Innova's PDM platform in the design flow management and traceability niche.
• IC Manage: IC Manage offers design data management and IP lifecycle management for semiconductor and electronics companies. It competes head-to-head with Innova on flow management, library management, and chip design collaboration.
• Methodics: Methodics provides IP and design management platforms (now part of Blue Cheetah) for SoC design teams, addressing similar design flow, library, and resource-tracking challenges that Innova's PDM targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/innova-advanced-technologies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 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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