Kitware is an open-source software company founded in 1998 that provides advanced technical computing, artificial intelligence, and customized software solutions for scientific and technical work. The firm employs nearly 200 people and is 100% employee-owned, with offices in New York, North Carolina, Minnesota, New Mexico, Virginia and France.
Its technical work spans artificial intelligence, computer vision, scientific visualization, medical imaging, data analysis and software process solutions. Kitware's software underpins research and production systems across healthcare and life sciences, government and defense, aerospace, climate and weather, and academia. Partners include government agencies, commercial enterprises and academic institutions.
Kitware maintains a set of open-source platforms that have become foundational tools in scientific computing: VTK (Visualization Toolkit), the scientific visualization platform that was the original focus of the company's support activities; ParaView, a scientific visualization and data analysis platform; ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit), a toolkit for medical image analysis; and CMake, a build and software process tool.
The company describes its mission as making the world safer, healthier and more informed, and operates on a model of collaborative development and knowledge sharing, with a team of researchers and developers working on open-source projects alongside custom engagements.
