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Trimble
Hardware and software solutions for industrial workflows.
About Trimble
What if you could connect a construction site, a farm, or an entire fleet of trucks to the digital world, making them more productive and efficient? That's the problem Trimble has been solving for over four decades. Today, the company is a leader in connecting physical industries to digital technology, but its journey started with a single, revolutionary idea: commercializing GPS. In 1978, Charlie Trimble and two of his colleagues from Hewlett-Packard founded Trimble Navigation. They started by acquiring a navigation technology and soon pivoted to the nascent Global Positioning System. This bet on GPS paid off. By the early 1990s, after a 1990 IPO, the company was a key supplier of GPS devices to the U.S. military. However, Trimble’s vision extended far beyond a single device. The company began a decades-long strategy of growth through acquisition, entering new industries by buying companies with deep expertise. A pivotal moment came in 2002 with a joint venture with Caterpillar to integrate automated grade control into heavy machinery, transforming construction workflows. This move established a playbook: find an industry and embed technology to solve its biggest challenges. Another landmark acquisition was SketchUp from Google in 2012, which brought a massively popular 3D modeling tool into Trimble’s portfolio, bridging the gap between design and construction. These strategic acquisitions, along with many others in agriculture and transportation, have built a comprehensive ecosystem of hardware and software. Today, Trimble is focused on its "Connect and Scale" strategy, transitioning from selling standalone products to offering integrated, subscription-based software and services. This shift has resulted in over $1.4 billion in recurring revenue, as the company creates a unified platform for industries like architecture, engineering, construction, and transportation. By connecting an entire project lifecycle—from design to operation—Trimble continues to transform how the world’s essential work gets done.
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- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 1978
- Headquarters
- Westminster, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1990
- Employees
- 1
- Open positions
- 85
- Dealroom signal
- 47.7/100
- Industry
- Transportation
- Sub-industry
- Autonomous & Sensor Tech
- Sector
- Transportation, Farming, Analytics, Public Safety, Agritech, Autonomous Mobility, Space Tech, Horizon Europe
- Technology
- Deep Tech, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
- Investment activity
- 77 companies, latest Sep 2026
- Capital deployed
- $17M
- Preferred round
- ACQUISITION
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POST IPO DEBT✓Debt | Oct 2026 | $500M | — | Bank of America | ↗ |
| POST IPO DEBT✓Debt | Dec 2022 | $1B | — | Bank of America | ↗ |
Financials
Revenue, earnings and other financial measures where available. Years marked “E” are estimates.
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Trimble is 6.1M monthly website visits, up 48.8% over the last three months. Trimble's team declined 100% over the past year.
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage
Bank of America
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
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