Aurea Software, Inc.

Company overview. Aurea Software, Inc. is a privately held enterprise software company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Austin, Texas (401 Congress Ave.). It was formed in 2012 when ESW Capital LLC — the Austin-based investment firm founded by Trilogy Software founder Joe Liemandt — acquired four Progress Software business units to seed the company. Aurea is wholly owned by ESW Capital and operates as one of its portfolio brands alongside Trilogy, Versata, and GFI. Third-party estimates of size vary widely and should be treated as rough: employee counts range from roughly 235 (Growjo) to 500–1,000 (Selling.com), with revenue estimates from about $12M–$40M (SaaSData/Growjo) to $100M+ (Responsify); no audited figures are public.

Products / services. Aurea sells enterprise software for business-process management, enterprise messaging, CRM, email marketing, and collaboration, plus industry-specific solutions for retail, insurance, energy, and life sciences. It has grown largely through acquisitions of mature software brands, including Lyris (email marketing), Jive (community collaboration, acquired via ESW's Wave Systems in 2017), BroadVision (2020), and Austria's update software AG. Its website describes offerings spanning platform, engagement, and vertical solutions.

Patent-litigation posture. Aurea is an operating company defending against a single tracked patent suit; it has zero appearances as plaintiff. The case is Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Aurea Software, Inc. (6:22-cv-00584), filed June 8, 2022, in the Western District of Texas — Judge Alan D. Albright's Waco court, historically one of the most plaintiff-friendly patent venues in the U.S.

Notable context. Plaintiff Peter Henrik Pedersen, believed by Unified Patents to be associated with the assertion entity AiPi Solutions, sued Aurea alongside numerous other software vendors (including Salesforce, Intuit, Zoho, Zendesk, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle) over U.S. Patent 6,965,920, directed to message-distribution specification and management. The patent was challenged in IPR2023-00029 by Unified Patents, which secured a PTAB final decision in May 2024 holding all challenged claims unpatentable; the Federal Circuit affirmed that ruling on March 26, 2026. Aurea's single tracked case is thus an example of a commercial software company defending against a mass-filed NPE campaign, not an assertion program of its own.