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But there’s nothing simple about taking that idea and growing it into We at Dassault Systèmes have worked with hundreds of startups and Scalable growth with
new businesses to help them bring their ideas to life. We’re known for SaaS and PaaS
a successful business.
our industry-leading solutions for every aspect of product development, Getting to MVP
Developing a successful product means solving design issues, building a including CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA.
team, prototyping and testing. But there’s also so much more: getting
We view our relationships with entrepreneurs as a partnership: we’re here
investors on board, keeping them excited about your product’s potential to support you all the way with best-in-class solutions and decades of SPOTLIGHT ON
and finding your first clients. And sometimes there are the bumps in the expertise creating and nurturing disruption.
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road that threaten to derail the whole process—unexpected failures,
Our 3DEXPERIENCE Startup Offer is a unique portfolio of solutions that
prototypes that don’t work the way they should, or friction with teams we curated to allow startups to develop their products end-to-end with
Tackle any design challenge
working in different places on complex design challenges. the best tools from the start. On the other side, our startup accelerator, the Get to market faster
What can you do to boost your chances of success? 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, works directly with startups to nurture their ideas. Get investors and customers
on your side
We believe the only progress is human, and startups are pivotal to driving
One decisive advantage is facing these challenges head-on with
it forward.
technologies that speed up and improve your design process—as well
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as helping you secure funding at every stage. You can vastly reduce WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
your reliance on expensive physical tests to get t o market faster, and
create gorgeous, persuasive investor presentations to get the money
rolling in from those very first trade shows. And you can adopt the Every startup has a chance to change the world,
tools to work seamlessly with global talent on sophisticated designs. by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely
Getting to a launch, and beyond, starts with setting yourself up for new institution into existence.”
success. – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
This is your guide to the solutions you need to do just that. 2
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Lean and agile product development is vital for startups who want SPOTLIGHT ON
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to deliver truly innovative products and experiences. You need a CAPABILITIES
product innovation process that balances the layers of complexity
Tackle any design challenge
involved in developing a new transformative experience with
your need to minimize risks and maximize resources. To get it to Get to market faster
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The new industry gold standard is a platform approach that lets Tackle any design challenge
you build and customize your product development ecosystem. The SIMULATION-DRIVEN DESIGN WITH MODSIM Get to market faster
3DEXPERIENCE platform on the global cloud lets you easily connect
Integrated modeling and simulation (ModSim) is a critical competitive of Get investors and customers
your team, your clients, and any external collaborators like suppliers, on your side
the 3DEXPERIENCE platform approach. ModSim allows engineers to fully
marketing or design agencies. experience the product and its behavior in the early design phases, relying
A key benefit of the platform approach is the ability to integrate design, on technologies that can accurately predict, compare and simulate multiple
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product behaviors.
engineering, PLM and data management in a single ecosystem. WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
Digital continuity saves time and eliminates costly mistakes. Team Instead of relying on extensive physical prototyping and testing, designs
members can work on the same CAD model in parallel or one after can be optimized virtually, before the first prototype. Cross-disciplinary
teams can work together more efficiently to contribute their expertise to
another, no hand-offs required. Keep your data up-to-the-minute
each aspect of the design. Conditions of operation, manufacturing materials
and ensure usability across applications without file conversions or
and processes are taken into account from the beginning.
versioning errors.
It’s a paradigm shift in design optimization, allowing startups to shave
months to years off their time-to-market.
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READY TO GROW
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You already know scalability is key—creating processes and structures Tackle any design challenge
that can grow with you. Doing more means hiring more people,
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building new servers, buying new software licenses. All steps that can
Get investors and customers
cause bumps in the road at critical stages of growth. on your side
How do you build scalability when it comes to your team, your IT and
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We built the 3DEXPERIENCE startup offer with the goal of offering
agility and scalability across domains. Here’s what the 3DEXPERIENCE
platform approach means for agile product development.
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STAY LEAN
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● Cut
down on early hardware expenses. Shift resources to cloud Get to market faster
computing clusters and add more when you need them. Canoo is an EV startup that’s been using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on Get investors and customers
the cloud to keep their operations lean ever since they got their start in a on your side
● Hire
only the people you can’t do without. Shift a big part of the
garage in 2017.
burden of server maintenance, upgrades, platform operation and
cybersecurity off your shoulders. GET STARTED
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With our time-to-market goals, we didn’t have six months
● Choosea subscription model to keep overheads low and pay only
to get back-end computers to work. The cloud-based system has been
for what you need.
fantastic, and it’s worked seamlessly for us through multiple moves
and expansions. You put your computer on the table and you’re
immediately able to collaborate efficiently around the world.”
It is a huge relief not to have to manage servers or infrastructure.
The cloud model also simplifies license management – Stefan Krause, Founder and CEO, Canoo
while keeping us on the cutting edge of technology upgrades.”
– Matt Sommer, in charge of methods, Canoo 7
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● Add seats and licenses quickly for new team members. Transitioning from a start-up with just a handful of engineers to a team of
more than 50, the company needed a platform to bring everyone together, GET STARTED
● Startsmall, think big. Adopt a solution that grows with your WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
streamline workflows and collaborate on complex designs, while ensuring
business, with scalable industry-leading tools and applications for they have access to the most up-to-date product information.
every aspect of product development.
“It was difficult to manage all the information we have across our facilities,”
says COO Joan Orús. “With that and having to monitor all our products and
manage all the related data, we were having to contend with changing file
Using the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud, our engineers have been able
names and locations. When you start out as a small company with three
to access all the tools and information they need from their home people, it’s fine. But at the level we are now, it was becoming much more
offices and collaborate and share information with customers to keep complicated.”
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● Hire the best people for the job. Remove barriers to collaboration.
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● Keep designers, engineers, marketing, sales, and management on Interstellar Lab is a French-American startup that’s developing next generation 3DEXPERIENCE CLOUD
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modular systems for life in space. Their teams work around the clock in Paris,
the same page. Keep all project data and models up to date with a
France, and Los Angeles, USA to develop their flagship Ebios design. Tackle any design challenge
single source of truth.
Get to market faster
● Take presentations and CAD models with you. Show clients and
We have people working on the model 24 hours a day. Get investors and customers
investors up-to-date content on a tablet or mobile device. on your side
They can all work together, connect seamlessly and simultaneously
● Add freelancers and external suppliers to your team with global on the platform to move the project forward… This is really important
cloud access. Stay in control of access rights so you can securely as we’re working on many different components and need to ensure we don’t
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share content with internal and external collaborators. duplicate work and are always referring to the latest version. The platform WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
supports us to have the most efficient working processes and avoid reworking
These days we’re not all working in the same office. Your design team designs from scratch. Having real-time access is critical as we can be running
might be in California, your engineering team in Korea and your web lots of different iterations at any one time.”
design team in Finland. – Barbara Belvisi, Founder and CEO, Interstellar Lab
The new normal is the flexibility to work from anywhere without
skipping a beat. You can’t afford downtime if you’re working remotely,
and you can access mission-critical data securely in an investor
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At Vertical Aerospace we were fortunate to have moved – Bas van Goch, IT & PLM Manager, Lightyear
onto the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud before we were remote GET STARTED
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working. The team has all they need to work from home and by For more on how startups are staying operational with the
using the platform on cloud we have been able to continue working 3DEXPERIENCE platform, check out our stories on business continuity.
with virtually no difference in performance. It’s an excellent case for
working on the cloud, and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform has allowed
us to remain agile and secure without loss of capability, effectively
maintaining business continuity.”
– Owen Thompson Cheel, Senior Aerospace Engineer,
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Start small Move forward Hire talent Think global Keep growing Power up
Set up with Switch capabilities Easily add seats Source the best Add servers without Easily purchase
minimal hardware on and off for each when you add talent and work with needing to build new applications
and software costs product development new team members anyone, anywhere or maintain them and cloud credits
phase yourself
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The Minimum Viable Product—or first mock-up—is an essential step in something persuasive with credible, compelling simulations and visual
lean product development, but the initial design and engineering steps mock-ups with more advanced styling and engineering.
can take months or sometimes years. For startups in the automotive industry, for instance, the
What startups are doing with 3DEXPERIENCE is speeding up these 3DEXPERIENCE makes it possible create a computer-aided
early development phases to provide early proof-of-concept. Steps engineering (CAE) model without CAD data. It’s possible to get a
that typically take months can be accomplished in weeks. You can full vehicle model up and running within 2 weeks, then sync the
test concepts earlier on and get early feedback with capabilities like CAE with the CAD to refine it further. This can save a lot of time
integrated design and simulation. It also allows you to show investors compared to the traditional model of the CAD leading the CAE. 12
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for tackling any design challenge with grace and confidence—Tesla level of performance even if you work on very heavy models with Get investors and customers
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Motors developed their innovative products on Dassault Systèmes thousands of features or parts.
software from their inception1. Now CATIA is giving a new generation 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA’s simple and very lean knowledgeware
of disruptors what they need to efficiently engineer products from the language lets you automate repetitive tasks. Capture and reuse your
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ground up. best practices to make your work faster and easier. You can also create
In the 3DEXPERIENCE Startup Offer, the remarkable design capabilities templates to store your intelligence and expertise within specific 3D
of CATIA are available on the cloud. Work on the same models alongside models that can be reused in different contexts.
other team members anywhere in the world. Take your designs with Connect your whole team in 3DEXPERIENCE to speed through design
you on a tablet or mobile device. Design on the go and easily share phases and work collaboratively at every step of the way.
models with investors and clients.
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Launched by a team of aerospace engineers in Germany, Yuri is making
● Advanced styling and shape designing Tackle any design challenge
microgravity experimentation simpler, quicker and more affordable.
The startup handles its entire hardware development process in ● Design Guidance and automated design exploration Get to market faster
3DEXPERIENCE, which it has used since launching in 2019. Get investors and customers
● Intuitive sketching and modeling on mobile devices on your side
“We’re a high-tech start-up, so it’s important to have high-tech software,”
says co-founder and COO Mark Kugel. “CATIA is the most popular design ● Generative design for lightweighting
system used in aerospace, so it made perfect sense for us to adopt the ● Class A surface modeling GET STARTED
3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud with its design application.” WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
● Model-Based Systems Engineering
Many of the team had used CATIA in previous roles and were impressed
by the new user interface in CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on ● Seamless collaboration across engineering domains
cloud. “It made sense for us to start directly in the cloud-based platform
● High performance for any size assembly
and get hold of all the rich functionality we needed,” says design engineer
Lukas Trautwein said. “Having used different CAD systems before, I found
the jump to CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform a real step up. The new
design is even more user-friendly.”
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Simulation IS design. When you work with fully integrated modeling fully integrated with design capabilities to help startups develop better
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the result is greater product insight and reduced uncertainty about the consuming physical testing. Instead of building physical prototypes,
performance of the final product. startups are performing simulations and automating design exploration
for a much faster process that can handle even complex physics
This is because you can quickly explore more design alternatives and
couplings.
produce accurate simulations of the product’s behavior to guarantee
that manufacturing constraints are respected and the design is Connect multi-physics, multi-scale simulation to your 3D model data to
optimized to meet requirements. run scenarios and optimize designs quickly and accurately, and set up
high-fidelity simulation and analysis even with little to no simulation
The simulation capabilities in the 3DEXPERIENCE Startup Offer are
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“I’ve recently started working with CATIA and it’s really magic for creating ● Instantly update CAD with analysis results Tackle any design challenge
geometries,” Ferré said. “Creating 3D models of complex joints based on ● Boost computing capabilities with HPC & cloud computing clusters Get to market faster
their actual behavior and then, using SIMULIA to simulate complete multi-
body systems, helped us understand the overall movement of the foot. ● Works with cost-effective cloud computing credits Get investors and customers
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The joint kinematics data was then used for modeling, using the finite
● Validated for mechatronics and other systems engineering
element method, to simulate the complexity of the foot behavior in contact
with the ground, including pressures sustaining the articular cartilage and GET STARTED
tissue stress levels. Creating 3D models of complex joints based on their WITH 3DEXPERIENCE
actual behavior and then using SIMULIA to simulate complete multi-body
systems helped us understand the overall movement of the foot. The joint
kinematics data was then used for modeling, using the finite element
method, to simulate the complexity of the foot behavior in contact with the
ground, including pressures sustaining the articular cartilage and tissue
stress levels.”
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