Altium

Altium

Altium was founded in 1985 and operates as a publicly traded company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: ALU). Its headquarters are in La Jolla, California, with a registered office in St Leonards, Australia. The company generates revenue from software sales — primarily Altium Designer, Altium 365, and Octopart — and employs over 900 people globally (per Altium annual report, 2024). Altium's strategy centers on a platform that spans PCB layout, requirements management, design data management, and manufacturing handoff. Its product suite includes Altium Designer (the flagship ECAD tool), Altium 365 (a cloud collaboration layer), and Octopart (a component search engine). The company targets electronics engineers across aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, and industrial sectors. Its customer base includes over 50,000 organizations globally (per Altium corporate site, 2025). Geography is broad — the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific each form significant revenue segments. As of 2024, Altium reported annual revenue of approximately $260 million (per Altium annual report, 2024). The company acquired North American distributor NuVia in 2021 and later folded it into its partner ecosystem. It also operates an education program — Altium Education — that offers free curriculum for students. The business has no disclosed single-family-office ownership or direct allocation to private markets. Altium's structural differentiator is its vertical integration: it builds the design tool, the cloud platform, and the component database under one roof, controlling the full electronics product-creation workflow. This model is rare in ECAD, where rivals rely on fragmented toolchains. Altium's governance follows corporate-public-company norms, with no family-office overlay or private wealth origin.