Dotmatics Acquires M-Star to Expand CFD Capabilities in Bioprocessing and Materials
January 4, 2024
Dotmatics has acquired M-Star, a GPU-accelerated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software company headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, to extend its R&D scientific software platform into bioprocessing and chemicals & materials markets. The deal — the 13th acquisition for Dotmatics — will keep M-Star as a standalone business within Dotmatics and aims to accelerate product capabilities and market reach for modeling fluid dynamics in life sciences and industrial applications.
- Buyers
- Dotmatics
- Targets
- M-Star
- Platforms
- Dotmatics
- Industry
- Software
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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