Critical Software

Critical Software S.A.

Type	Privately held
Industry	Information Technology
Founded	1998
Founder	Gonçalo Quadros (Chairman), Diamantino Costa, João Carreira
Headquarters	Coimbra, Portugal
Products	XCEPTION, Beyond Logistics, Oversee, WOW
Revenue	25M€ (2014)
Number of employees	320 (2014)
Subsidiaries	Critical Software Technologies (Southampton and Yeovil - UK) Critical Software GmbH (Hanau – DE) Critical Software Technologies (California – USA) Critical Software Brasil (São Paulo - BR) Critical Software Moçambique, Limitada (Maputo - MZ) Critical Software Angola (Luanda – AO)
Website	www.criticalsoftware.com

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

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.