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Company Connection Graph

Status: v1.0 (2026-08-02). Relationships as established in the study's company reports — only connections with evidence in the reports are drawn (no speculative edges). Split into five diagrams for readability: ownership/M&A, the AI/model layer, customer-side deployments, the Tata group cluster, and finally every company for which no relation was found (single nodes). Edge labels carry the relation and year where known.


1. Ownership, M&A and corporate restructuring

acquired, closed Mar 2025

acquired

acquired Digimat / ODYSSEE / MSC, Feb 2026 (€2.7bn)

acquired, complete Jan 2024

acquired, Jul 2025

owns Moldflow

acquired

acquired

product / team

sold Kepware / ThingWorx, Mar 2026

acquired 2016 → DFMPro

acquisition precedent, ~€75M

venture — ceased 31 Jul 2025

subsidiary, sovereign cloud

merged 2022

merged 2022

sold Interiors, Apr 2026 (€1.82bn)

spun off Sep 2025

sale announced Jul 2026 (€4.0bn)

spun off 2025

sold ADAS, 2025 (€1.5bn)

2019 demerger sibling

Siemens

Altair

Inspekto

Cadence

Hexagon

Keysight

ESI Group

Synopsys

Ansys

Autodesk

Moldflow product

Navasto

Mistral AI

Emmi AI

NeuralMould

PTC

TPG

HCLTech

ex-Geometric

Tata Technologies

ES-Tec

NETZSCH

sensXPERT

Dr. Flender Holding

SIGMASOFT / SIGMA

MAGMA

Flow Science

Dassault Systèmes

OUTSCALE

Faurecia

Forvia

HELLA

Apollo funds

Continental

Aumovio

ContiTech

Lone Star Funds

ZF Friedrichshafen

ZF LIFETEC

Harman / Samsung

KPIT

Birlasoft

Marelli — Chapter 11, Jun 2025


2. The AI / model layer — who rents, who owns, who partners

Aura / Leo / Marie assistants

Large Industry Model on >1 PB crash data, May 2026

Azure AI — Codebeamer Copilot

co-development w/ PTC

GenAI for automated driving; Copilot

requirements AI w/ NTT DATA

MoldiBot ChatGPT+RAG

Llama rented

on-prem PhariaAI + Bosch Ventures investment

Cadmould AI Solver, Mar 2026

solver partnership

PhysicsAI on Inspire Mold, Jun 2026

third-party moulding route

Omniverse / Cosmos

factories / autonomy, Mar 2025

digital factories

Series A + B investor

Mistral AI

Dassault Systèmes

BMW Group

Microsoft

PTC

Volkswagen Group

Bosch

Continental

NTT DATA

OpenAI

Moldex3D

Meta

AWS

Google

Aleph Alpha

Anthropic Claude, rented

LTTS

Emmi AI

SIMCON

Siemens

Altair

CYBERNET / PlanetsX

Ansys

NVIDIA

Magna

General Motors

Mercedes-Benz

BMW i Ventures

Synera


3. Customer-side deployments — who uses whose engineering technology

CATIA / 3DEXPERIENCE

CATIA / 3DX confirmed via job postings

3DX future engineering platform

CATIA V5 Two-CAD

3DX 18k+ users

20k+ users

Creo Two-CAD

Creo + Windchill

CAD interop 2017

NX + Simcenter, CAE templates −80%

NX shop

Amesim ROM surrogates, 1 wk → 15 min

Teamcenter Product Cost Mgmt

NX + Teamcenter in Electrical Drives

Moldflow — solver of record

MoldFlow analysis in tooling chain

Pune case 2015, tool tuning −68%

mould-maker testimonial

crash ROMs, 1 min vs 11 h

crash surrogates

Digimat case

metrology on plastics

ROMER arm >40% gain

in-mould ML, fleet rollout — vendor died Jul 2025

ZF-AInA negotiation AI

CAM knowledge mgmt, Braunschweig mould shop

Clean Mobility outsourcing, €45m 2024

process-QC pairing

cost / CO2 should-cost customers

ZF shareholding, 2019

partnership

hybrid-ML shrinkage paper 2024

TorchPhysics

pressure-surrogate paper 2022

Bayesian tailgate-rib paper 2025

CVPR 2026 AV research

spot-weld AI audit

SAE headlamp-AI paper 2026

Dassault Systèmes

Forvia

Tesla

BMW Group

Toyota

Jaguar Land Rover

Renault Group

PTC

Bosch

Elysium

Siemens

Denso

Mercedes-Benz

Hyundai Motor Group

ZF Friedrichshafen

Autodesk

Motherson

Moldex3D

Frumolde

ODYSSEE — Hexagon → Cadence

Autoliv

Hexagon

Trinseo

Wirthwein

Modern Polymers

sensXPERT

Pactum AI

OPEN MIND

Volkswagen Group

LTTS

STASA

Kistler

Tset

DFKI

CISPA

RWTH Aachen IKV

Univ. Bremen

Arts et Métiers

KAIST

Sogang Univ.

Univ. Ulsan / Technopark

Q-JEN mould maker

Carnegie Mellon

Fraunhofer

Altair

Tata Motors


4. The Tata group cluster (one channel, many entities)

engineering services; anchor customer

moulded-parts Tier-1; sister company

SAP S/4HANA rollout

trim programmes incl. Moldflow skills

Tata group

Tata Motors

Tata Technologies

Tata AutoComp Systems

Tata Elxsi

TCS


5. No relation found — single nodes

Companies encountered in the research with no evidenced connection to any other company in this index (screened ESPs, whitespace startups, excluded vendors and one-line appearances):

Quest Global

EDAG Group

Cyient

Bertrandt

Capgemini Engineering

Akkodis

Alten

Segula Technologies

Infosys ES

Valeo

Koito

Yanfeng

Physna

Backflip AI

Spread AI

eMoldino

Moldsonics

Symate / Detact

plus10

iMFLUX — defunct

aPriori

Paperless Parts

Fictiv

Protolabs

Xometry

Foundation EGI

Leap71

Maddox AI

Zoo

SimScale

Flexcompute

CADENAS / 3Dfindit

Luminary Cloud

Monolith AI

Neural Concept

PhysicsX

Palantir

Sundaram (representative example)

IM Technologies


Reading notes

  • Edge direction = provider → customer, acquirer → target, or investor → investee; dotted lines are sibling/pairing relations.
  • The funded physics-AI generalists (Neural Concept, PhysicsX, Luminary, Monolith) sit in the singles diagram deliberately: they raised >$350M in 2025 but have no evidenced automotive-moulding relationship — that absence is itself a finding (the vacant warpage-surrogate seat — see the Startup Landscape note).
  • sensXPERT and iMFLUX are marked defunct — the two cautionary tales of the in-process moulding-AI category.
  • Sources: the respective company reports in ../A_companies/.