List of 2,314 California-based Software Companies

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
Synopsys NASDAQ : SNPS Sunnyvale, California, United States website	Software	6,127	74	71	3
Autodesk NASDAQ : ADSK San Rafael, California, United States website	Software	6,131	65	61	4
Intuit NASDAQ : INTU Mountain View, California, United States website	Software	16,285	67	55	12
Cadence NASDAQ : CDNS San Jose, California, United States website	Software	4,641	55	53	2
Adobe NASDAQ : ADBE San Jose, California, United States website	Software	21,505	52	52	-
ServiceNow NYSE : NOW Santa Clara, California, United States website	Software	10,984	34	34	-
ASG Private Walnut Creek, California, United States website	Software	-	33	29	4
Tibco Acquired Cloud Software Group 2022-09-01 Palo Alto, California, United States website	Software	1,069	23	23	-
Genesys PE Backed Permira TCV Banneker Partners Hellman & Friedman 2012-02-01 $1.39398B Menlo Park, California, United States website	Software	-	21	21	-
WalmartLabs, Inc. Private San Bruno, California, United States website	Software	-	17	16	1
Splunk Acquired Cisco Systems 2023-09-21 $28B San Francisco, California, United States website	Software	3,654	14	14	-
Avant! Corp. Acquired Synopsys 2002-06-06 Fremont,, California, United States	Software	-	12	12	-
Silvaco NASDAQ : SVCO Santa Clara, California, United States website	Software	60	12	12	-
Cloudera PE Backed CD&R KKR 2021-06-01 $5.3B Santa Clara, California, United States website	Software	869	11	11	-
Gravity4, Inc. Private San Francisco, California, United States website	Software	-	11	11	-
Mitchell Acquired Enlyte 2021-10-12 San Diego, California, United States website	Software	-	11	11	-

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