Cloud platform PlanGrid, widely used in field-office document sharing, will have more reach with its December purchase by Autodesk, says CEO Young. Tracy Young says she became a construction engineer ...

The acquisition of Plangrid will strengthen the connection between construction activity on the jobsite, and Autodesk project design tools. PlanGrid has been used on more than 1 million projects and ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Autodesk Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a provider of construction productivity software, for $875 million net of cash. This acquisition will enable ...

A company that saw the potential in the iPad as a tool for work, not just play, is PlanGrid, a construction management software application that’s like a Google Docs for blueprints. But getting the ...

Autodesk said it will acquire PlanGrid for $875 million. PlanGrid has developed a software-as-a-service (SaaS) system focused on construction general contractors. ADSK will integrate PlanGrid into its ...

The construction industry has always been a late adopter. While other major U.S. industries have gone digital, builders have clung to paper. PlanGrid co-founder and CEO Tracy Young made a bet in 2011 ...

Autodesk on Tuesday announced plans to acquire the construction software firm PlanGrid for $875 million net of cash. The deal is Autodesk's largest acquisition to date. PlanGrid's software helps ...

Autodesk will acquire the construction-productivity-software-startup PlanGrid for $875 million, the company announced Tuesday. PlanGrid was last valued at $419 million in a 2015 Series B. It was ...

Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years? It sounds like a wildly ...