Trimble

Trimble is a technology solutions provider that enhances productivity for field and mobile workers across various sectors, including construction, agriculture, and public safety. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company focuses on applications that require precision positioning, utilizing technologies such as GPS, lasers, and optics. Trimble's offerings often include specialized software tailored to user needs, with wireless technologies ensuring seamless integration between field operations and back-office functions. The company operates through four main segments: Buildings and Infrastructure, Geospatial, Resources and Utilities, and Transportation, with the Buildings and Infrastructure segment generating the majority of its revenue. Additionally, Trimble Ventures, established in 2021 and based in Westminster, Colorado, serves as the corporate venture capital arm of Trimble, investing in innovative companies across sectors such as construction, transportation, and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on sustainability and ESG principles.

Aviad Almagor

Vice President, Technology Innovation

David G. Barnes

CFO

Prakash Iyer

Managing Director

Eliot Jones

Principal

Phil Sawarynski

Managing Director and Founding Member

Chris Stern

Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Trimble Ventures and Partnerships

Past deals in Geospatial

Cityworks

Acquisition in 2019
Cityworks is a company that specializes in inventory management software tailored for public works and utilities. Founded in 1996, it combines Geographic Information System (GIS) technology with asset management, permitting, and licensing to enhance the management of public infrastructure and property. Utilizing the ArcGIS Location Platform, Cityworks enables local governments to effectively manage workflow, schedule resources, and prioritize activities, leading to improved operational efficiencies and communication. Its Web GIS-centric platform has been adopted by over 600 organizations globally, positioning Cityworks as a trusted provider of enterprise asset management solutions that help agencies track, analyze, and manage their infrastructure assets efficiently.

NM Group

Acquisition in 2017
NM Group optimise the performance of electricity networks by remotely sensing and serving the position and condition of power assets. The company has grown from strength-to-strength providing custom services to the power sector. From mapping and presenting spatial data on an electrical network through to modelling and displaying a 3D virtual network environment we deliver value to electricity network operators.

Axio-Net

Acquisition in 2016
Axio-Net is a navigation and satellite positioning services provider based in Hannover, Germany. The company specializes in delivering reference networked services that offer satellite-based positioning and navigation information. By utilizing an open-source format, Axio-Net ensures compatibility with various GNSS receivers, allowing professional users to access correction data in a standardized RTCM format. The company supports the integration of GNSS-correction data into existing applications through tailored solutions, including modems and virtual bases. Axio-Net's expertise spans multiple sectors, including surveying, agriculture, forestry, railway, automotive, aviation, and geo-monitoring, making it a versatile partner for precise positioning applications. Additionally, Axio-Net is an active member of the RTCM Special Committee 104, contributing to advancements in differential GNSS systems.

Spatial Dimension Canada

Acquisition in 2015
Spatial Dimension Canada Inc., founded in 1999 and based in North Vancouver, Canada, specializes in developing a web-based land management solution aimed at the mining industry and governmental entities. The company's flagship product, FlexiCadastre, provides an enterprise-scale solution that facilitates effective land management practices. This software has been widely adopted by leading mining companies and governments around the world, enhancing their operational efficiency and resource management. As of September 2015, Spatial Dimension Canada operates as a subsidiary of Trimble Inc.

Gehry Technologies

Acquisition in 2014
Gehry Technologies is an architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) technology development and consulting company that offers web-based 3D project collaboration, building information modeling, and advanced project delivery services. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company serves a global client base that includes architects, engineers, contractors, and project owners. Gehry Technologies enhances the adoption of BIM technology by providing project-based services that enable teams to effectively utilize essential systems while adhering to project timelines. The company emphasizes training and knowledge transfer in every engagement, ensuring that clients are equipped to leverage advanced technology. Its diverse team comprises architects, engineers, builders, computer scientists, and management consultants, allowing it to address the industry's most complex challenges.

WeoGeo

Acquisition in 2014
WeoGeo operates an online geospatial data platform designed to facilitate access to data that is often trapped in proprietary formats. This platform connects customers with data providers, streamlining the sales process and enhancing user satisfaction. Customers can quickly discover and obtain geospatial data in the formats they require, often within minutes. Meanwhile, data providers benefit from a continuous sales channel, allowing their data to be sold globally without additional effort. By focusing on ease of access and customization, WeoGeo effectively serves the needs of geo-spatial professionals seeking to acquire content files and maps.

The Omega Group

Acquisition in 2014
The Omega Group, Inc. specializes in developing geographic information systems (GIS) software solutions tailored for law enforcement, public safety, and education agencies across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Founded in 1992 and based in San Diego, California, with a regional office in Philadelphia, the company offers a diverse range of services. These include desktop crime analysis and mapping tools, mobile applications for proactive policing, fire response analysis solutions, and demographic tools for educational administrators. The Omega Group's software enables public agencies to make data-driven decisions by providing insights into crime activities, enrollment forecasting, and critical infrastructure monitoring. Additionally, the company's cloud-based data management and visualization capabilities allow agencies to analyze various data sources, helping them identify trends and allocate resources effectively. As of February 2016, The Omega Group operates as a subsidiary of TriTech Software Systems Inc.

GeoDesy and GeoDesy FSO

Acquisition in 2014
GeoDesy is a European engineering and development company focused on delivering accessories for the geomatics. Established in 1876 and located in Budapest Hungary, GeoDesy is a market leader in the design, production and distribution of surveying instruments, precision mechanic optical components and accessories. GeoDesy FSO designs and produces laser-based free space optical communication devices.

C3 Consulting

Acquisition in 2013
C3 Consulting, established in 2011, specializes in agricultural software that enhances crop management through the integration of crop information with detailed soil data. The company offers several innovative solutions, including the Soil Information System (SIS) for advanced 3-D mapping of soil characteristics, and PurePixel, a software for processing aerial images to assess crop health. Additionally, C3 provides a Soil Inventory tool that leverages precision agriculture technologies to evaluate field variability, as well as Agricultural Forensics techniques that analyze soil and vegetation data to address complex agricultural challenges. The Soil Imaging Penetrometer, another of C3's offerings, is a high-resolution system designed for in-situ soil imagery analysis. Through these technologies, C3 promotes sustainable farming practices aimed at improving crop yield, quality, and overall productivity.

IQ Irrigation

Acquisition in 2013
IQ Irrigation specializes in providing GPS-controlled hardware and software solutions for managing linear and pivot irrigation systems. The company's technology allows for precise control of individual nozzles, enabling farmers to optimize water usage by adjusting the irrigation speed and applying the appropriate amount of water based on specific crop requirements. This system can be operated remotely via an internet application accessible from both computers and mobile devices, facilitating user-friendly management of irrigation processes. IQ Irrigation offers various options, from simple operational controls to complex configurations that allow for variable watering patterns and targeted application, including no spray or variable spray areas.

Trimble MAPS

Acquisition in 2013
Trimble MAPS specializes in transportation management software that enhances routing, scheduling, visualization, and navigation for commercial vehicles. The company's solutions are tailored for various industries, including agriculture, construction, food delivery, and oil and gas. By leveraging map data and map-centric technology, Trimble MAPS provides tools for commercial routing, mileage calculation, site mapping, and geocoding. These capabilities enable users to improve efficiency by reducing out-of-route mileage, ultimately saving on time, tolls, and fuel costs. The company focuses on delivering trusted products that cater to diverse workforces and fleets of all sizes, aiming to transform the journey experience in the transportation sector.

GeoTrac

Acquisition in 2012
GeoTrac focuses on the ability to enhance business by blending off the shelf hardware with aggressively flexible software to deliver technology solutions that are tailored to specific requirements. Primarily, but not limited to mobile asset management, the GeoTrac solutions are primarily re-sold through AT&T to end-users who have been un-able to find a "standard" off the shelf solution for their requirements. Proposals pending through AT&T include Rental Vehicle return automation, Mobile Asset wireless gateway, Container tracking and security and a myriad of fairly customized track & trace systems that require a bit of customization to meet the client's requirements. In addition, GeoTrac developed a freshwater tank monitoring system for AT&T's client, Spring Water on Tap.

Spime

Acquisition in 2012
Spime specializes in providing white-labeled location-based software solutions tailored for mobile operators, original equipment manufacturers, application store providers, developers, and semiconductor companies. Their product suite, known as Northstar, enhances application development and delivery by offering location intelligence. Additionally, Spime focuses on social location solutions compatible with a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs. This diverse offering positions Spime as a key player in the location-based services market, catering to various sectors that require accurate and efficient location data integration.

Gatewing

Acquisition in 2012
Gatewing, founded in 2008, specializes in remote sensing solutions for the surveying and mapping industry. The company is known for its lightweight unmanned aircraft, particularly the X100, which facilitates rapid terrain mapping. Gatewing offers a comprehensive solution that includes image acquisition in the field and fully automated digital image processing, making the technology both affordable and user-friendly. By enhancing accessibility to advanced mapping tools, Gatewing aims to transform traditional practices in the surveying and mapping sectors.

MyTopo

Acquisition in 2011
MyTopo, established in 1998, specializes in providing custom printed navigation-ready map products tailored for both professional and recreational topographic map users. The company offers a wide range of mapping services, including topographic maps, aerial photographs, and digital maps, along with mapping software designed for outdoor enthusiasts. By focusing on quality and customization, MyTopo meets the diverse needs of individuals seeking reliable navigation solutions in various outdoor activities.

Dynamic Survey Solutions

Acquisition in 2011
Dynamic Survey Solutions Inc. is a company focused on developing software specifically for the seismic survey industry. Its primary product, GPSeismic, is a comprehensive suite of applications designed for data processing and management in seismic surveys. The software supports the development of new survey technologies and meets geophysical requirements, particularly for the oil and gas exploration sector. By providing these specialized tools, Dynamic Survey Solutions aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of data management in seismic operations.

Cengea Solutions

Acquisition in 2010
Cengea Solutions is a leading provider of spatially-enabled business operations and supply chain management software for the forestry. Cengea Solutions Inc. provides information technology-based business solutions for resource-based enterprises. Cengea serves forest products, agriculture, environment, utilities and government markets in North America and around the world. The company offers industry-leading raw material supply chain execution and optimization solutions for the agriculture and forest products sectors. These solutions enable its clients to make sustainable cost reductions and add value to their products by focusing on solving quality, productivity, compliance and operational business challenges. Cengea�s clients are of every size—some of the world's largest and best-known, forest products, agribusiness and conservation organizations as well as small and medium-sized businesses and state and federal departments. The company's 21-year history of serving spatial solutions around the globe puts Cengea in a unique position to understand and help address complex business issues.

Definiens - Earth Sciences Business Assets

Acquisition in 2010
Definiens AG’s Earth sciences business assets and licensing its eCognition geospatial imaging analysis software platform.

TopoSys Topographische Systemdaten

Acquisition in 2008
TopoSys, founded in 1995, commercialized the airborne fiber optic laser scanner together with a line camera to obtain information of the topography. Today, TopoSys has customers in service companies as well as state authorities and municipalities who use its aerial data collection solutions and services for coastline protection, floodplain control, city modeling, opencast pit mining, and corridor mapping.

RolleiMetric GmbH

Acquisition in 2008
RolleiMetric develops and commercializes camera systems and software designed for aerial imaging and terrestrial close range photogrammetry. RolleiMetric has been involved in the field of metric imaging and photogrammetry since it was founded as a division of Rollei in 1986.

Geo- 3D, Inc.

Acquisition in 2008
Géo-3D develops and commercializes solutions to improve the productivity and reliability of data acquisition processes as part of linear right-of-way inventory and monitoring operations. Géo-3D has been involved in the field of geographic information technologies since the company was founded in 1995. Solutions focus on the use of high-resolution digital imagery, positioning systems and photogrammetry for the transportation, energy, municipal engineering as well as environmental industries. In addition, Géo-3D provides services to complement its mobile mapping solutions.

HHK Datentechnik

Acquisition in 2008
HHK Datentechnik GmbH, based in Braunschweig, Germany, has been a prominent provider of customized software solutions for the cadastral survey market since its founding in 1984. The company specializes in developing and marketing office management, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Geographic Information System (GIS) software tailored for municipal and cadastral offices, utility suppliers, and engineering organizations. With additional offices in Berlin, Bergheim, and Munich, HHK Datentechnik leverages its industry expertise to address state-specific cadastral requirements, facilitating administration, planning, and design processes. The company's solutions support area-oriented data collection and documentation, ensuring efficient operation across various German states.

Inpho GmbH

Acquisition in 2007
Inpho GmbH is a leader in photogrammetry and digital surface modeling for aerial surveying, mapping and remote sensing applications. INPHO is an end-to-end photogrammetry solutions supplier. INPHO's portfolio covers the entire workflow of photogrammetry projects, including aerial triangulation, stereo compilation, terrain modeling, orthophoto production and image capture. In addition, INPHO offers innovative software solutions for processing digital terrain models, including advanced filtering and editing of LIDAR data. Typical users of INPHO products are service companies offering geospatial data collection by photogrammetry and LIDAR, as well as all state authorities involved in supplying geospatial information. Founded in 1980, INPHO is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

@Road

Acquisition in 2006
@Road is a company based in Fremont, California, that specializes in integrating GPS technology, wireless communications, and the internet to help businesses manage their mobile resources effectively. Its internet-based service focuses on vehicle management, offering solutions for location tracking, reporting, dispatch, and messaging. This enables clients to monitor the movement of vehicles, employees, and goods in real-time, while also facilitating two-way communication between customers and their mobile workforce.

Spacient Technologies

Acquisition in 2006
Spacient Technologies, Inc. specializes in enterprise field service management and mobile mapping solutions tailored for municipalities and utilities. The company offers its flagship Fieldport Enterprise Software Suite alongside professional services, providing device- and platform-independent mobile GIS and field computing solutions. These offerings help organizations enhance asset maintenance, improve customer management, boost field service efficiency, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations. Serving some of the largest utilities and municipalities in the United States, Spacient is dedicated to improving operational efficiency and customer service within the utilities and telecommunications sectors.

Meridian Systems

Acquisition in 2006
Meridian Systems, a Trimble Company, is the Plan-Build-Operate technology solutions leader for project-based organizations (PBO2). Building owners, construction and engineering firms, and public agencies use Meridian software to effectively manage capital building programs. Meridian offers construction project management and infrastructure lifecycle management solutions that reduce project costs and schedules across the plan-build-operate project lifecycle.

XYZ Solutions

Acquisition in 2006
XYZ Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of real-time, interactive 3D graphical software. XYZs products enable customers to see opportunities within their business by transforming disparate data into clear and actionable information. Through data consolidation, sequential decision support and intuitive 3D graphics, customers can visualize from nearly any vantage point a vast array of objects moving within a virtual environment. Utilizing XYZ's products, managers are able to visualize data in a manner that reflects the actual activity on the ground enabling them to make quicker, better informed decisions. Founded in 2000, XYZ is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

VS Visual Statement

Acquisition in 2006
VS Visual Statement, founded in 1999 in Kamloops, B.C., specializes in developing software solutions for law enforcement and public safety agencies. The company initially gained traction with its incident scene diagramming tool in 2000, followed by a crash reporting application in 2002. Its software enables real-time mapping and diagramming of traffic accidents and crime scenes, leveraging data from various electronic measuring tools. More than 4,000 police departments across North America utilize VS products, which have also found international acceptance, particularly with the introduction of a Spanish language version in 2005. This technology enhances crime-solving capabilities and supports the reporting and analysis processes for law enforcement and security service providers.

BitWyse Solutions

Acquisition in 2006
BitWyse is a world leader in providing software that creates, manages, and integrates existing conditions and dimensional control data between data collection systems and engineering, design and viewing environments. With BitWyse software solutions, engineering and construction management can make more informed decisions based on accurate existing conditions data, resulting in increased design integrity, mitigation of risk, reduced costs and field rework, decreased project duration, and increased profitability. BitWyse's clients include leading plant owner operators and engineering contractors such as Electric Boat (General Dynamics), Halliburton/KBR, Jacobs, Shaw Group - Stone & Webster, Bechtel, CH2MHill/Lockwood Greene, Washington Group, Worley Parsons, Woolpert, CDI, GHAFARI, Ambitech, Foster Wheeler, Fluor, BASF, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Monsanto, Nova Chemicals, BAYER, OxyChem and Pfizer.

Quantm International

Acquisition in 2006
Quantm International is a leader in transportation route optimization software used for planning highways, railways, pipelines and canals. The Quantm system for route alignment selection addresses the challenges of the conventional approach to transportation route planning. By integrating the large amounts of environmental, engineering, cost and community data into a single analysis Quantm helps customers achieve the objective of demonstrating that all reasonable alternatives have been considered as required by NEPA and Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act. The system has been successfully applied on road and rail projects worldwide, including California, Texas, Alaska, North Carolina, Indiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Louisiana, Delaware, Michigan and Idaho along with Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia and China. Quantm has offices and agents located in U.S, Mexico, Europe, Spain, Australia, Malaysia and China.

XYZs of GPS

Acquisition in 2006
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Dickerson, Maryland, The XYZs of GPS develops real-time Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reference station, integrity monitoring and dynamic positioning software for meter, decimeter and centimeter applications. In addition, the XYZs of GPS also develops algorithms and software applications for the real-time monitoring of bridges, dams, buildings, landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, subsidence and oilfields. For more information visit: http://www.xyzsofgps.com.
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