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Critical Software

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Type
  
Privately held

Revenue
  
25M€ (2014)

Founded
  
1998, Coimbra, Portugal

Industry
  
Information Technology

Number of employees
  
320 (2014)

Headquarters
  
Coimbra, Portugal

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Products
  
XCEPTION, Beyond Logistics, Oversee, WOW

Website
  
www.criticalsoftware.com

CEO
  
Gonçalo Quadros (Aug 2014–)

Motto
  
Dependable Technologies for Critical Systems

Founders
  
Gonçalo Quadros (Chairman), Diamantino Costa, João Carreira

Subsidiaries
  
Critical Software Technologies, Critical Links

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Critical Software is an international information systems and software company, headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal.

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Overview

Critical Software was established in 1998, from the University of Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). The company's headquarters are located in Coimbra, Portugal, with other Portuguese offices in Oporto and Lisbon, and subsidiaries around the world: Southampton and Yeovil (United Kingdom), Hanau, (Germany), California, (United States), São Paulo, (Brazil), Maputo, (Mozambique), Luanda, (Angola) and other locations.

Critical Software trades across several markets including aerospace, space, defence, automotive, railway, telecoms, government, finance, energy & utilities and healthcare. Core competences include Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Command & Control, Integrated Logistic Support, Security and Infrastructure, Integration, Business Intelligence, Risk Assessment Management System and Independent Software Verification & Validation.

Critical Group

  • Critical Manufacturing is a Critical Software company founded in 2009 and providing automation and manufacturing software for high-tech industries.
  • Critical Materials was founded in 2009 by Gustavo Dias, Julio Viana (Professors of Uminho) and Critical Software. The company focuses on the development of solutions and products in the field of advanced materials for critical applications.
  • Critical Health is a spin-off of Critical Software, encompassing all healthcare development activities since 2006.
  • Watchful Software is a spin-off of Critical Software, focusing on the provision of data-centric information security.
  • Critical Links is a spin-off of Critical Software. It is the developer of edgeBOX, which provides data communication services such as VoIP, VPN or Wifi to small and medium-sized businesses.

    • References

    Critical Software Wikipedia
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