Overview
Altair Engineering is headquartered in Troy, MI and was founded in 1985. The company was acquired by Siemens in 2025.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDAcquisitionAcquired by Siemens
Key facts
Headquarters
Founded
Ownership
Siemens acquisition close (Siemens press)
Industrial simulation and AI positioning (Siemens press)
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
1
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Current leadership (1)
- James R. Scapa Founder, Chairman & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- James R. Scapano longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Altair Engineering.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Altair Engineering in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Siemensfull acquisition2024-10-30
Timeline
Every recorded move in Altair Engineering’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Acquired byAcquired by Siemens
2024-10-30Acquired by Siemens (full_acquisition)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Altair Engineering.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Altair Engineering from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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The Infrastructure Shift Reshaping Physical AI - The AI Journal
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Siemens Completes Its Acquisition of Altair - Design News
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Siemens acquires Altair to create most complete AI-powered portfol ... - Siemens press
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Elysium InfiPoints now available through Altair - Engineering.com
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Altair launches Pune Innovation Centre and Automotive Digital Twin showcase - Manufacturing Today India
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/altair-engineering.md
- RSS feed: /companies/altair-engineering/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e3987217-de48-415a-bdca-d0b57b09f131
- Revision history: /companies/altair-engineering/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Altair Engineering against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026