How was Gurobi founded?

Co-founder and Advisor Robert Bixby, PhD, explains how Gurobi was founded and its three guiding principles.

Our Mission

Gurobi strives to help companies make better decisions through the use of prescriptive analytics. We provide the best math programming solver, tools for distributed optimization, optimization in the cloud, and outstanding support. We are committed to improving our solver performance and developing tools to help you use Gurobi with more ease. Founded in 2008 by arguably the most experienced and respected team in optimization circles, we have successfully expanded to serving over 2,500 companies from a wide range of industries, by way of providing the right mix of advanced developments and technologies, world-class support and flexible licensing.

Our Performance

To deliver the best solver possible, we are constantly looking to push the performance frontier for linear, quadratic, and mixed-integer programming forward. We have, on average, doubled the speed of our solver with each major release. The computational progress over the last 20 years has been nothing short of remarkable; enabling business, scientific and other applications that would have been unapproachable just a few years ago. The Gurobi founders have been at the forefront of these developments. The suite of products we offer represents new implementations, latest mathematical and engineering improvements, and computing hardware and programming environments to help meet the growing demands of business problems.

Our Experience

We have assembled the most experienced development team in the industry to ensure our solvers continuously improve performance and include features that meet the evolving needs of the industry. Our support team consists of PhD-level optimization experts, and each of our customers has direct access to quick and reliable answers to help you with your model or business problem.

Gurobi Corporate Brochure

Download our corporate brochure to learn more about:

  • How we became the leader in mathematical optimization software industry, consistently delivering the best technology and support.
  • Why more than 2,500 companies across over 40 industries use Gurobi to tackle their toughest problems and make optimal business decisions that improve efficiency and profitability.
  • How Gurobi can empower your company to make optimal, data-driven decisions and achieve your business objectives.

Try Gurobi for Free

Choose the evaluation license that fits you best, and start working with our Expert Team for technical guidance and support.

Evaluation License
Get a free, full-featured license of the Gurobi Optimizer to experience the performance, support, benchmarking and tuning services we provide as part of our product offering.
Academic License
Gurobi supports the teaching and use of optimization within academic institutions. We offer free, full-featured copies of Gurobi for use in class, and for research.
Cloud Trial

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