Tag Archives: IPO
Box Hopes It Has Timing Right for Long-Awaited IPO
“Timing is everything” is a piece of wisdom with a number of applications. One of them, of course, is the public markets, something that Box and its CEO Aaron Levie know well by now. After originally registering with the SEC … Continue reading
10 of 2014’s Largest Pre-IPO Funding Rounds
10 of 2014’s largest pre-IPO funding rounds Growth equity investing, which Cambridge Associates argues deserves its own asset class, has emerged in recent years to fund the collection of promising young companies that are not quite ready to turn to … Continue reading
Hortonworks IPO filing shines spotlight on Hadoop vendor market
Almost every industry produces huge amount of data. However, being able to capture and process it all is a relatively new phenomenon, being made possible in part by a distributed system of clusters and nodes called Hadoop. Developed in 2005 … Continue reading
The Exit Report: Upland Software, Sapient Corp., Blackbird Technologies
IPO Upland Software began trading on Nasdaq Thursday at $12 a share after raising $46 million in its IPO. But stock in the Austin, Texas.-based company ended up falling 19% to $9.75 by Thursday’s close. Upland, which provides work and … Continue reading
The Exit Report: Roku, Revolv, Rooftop Media
IPO A week after disclosing $25 million in new funding, the streaming device company Roku is apparently working with BofA Merrill Lynch and Citigroup on its IPO. Originally backed by Netflix, which used Roku’s device as its exclusive streaming provider, … Continue reading
The Exit Report: Lending Club, Good Technology, EMC
Exit Report: Lending Club, Good Technology, EMC IPO It was another light week in tech-related IPO activity. Perhaps the biggest news was that the peer-to-peer loan platform Lending Club will list on the New York Stock Exchange when it goes … Continue reading
The Exit Report: HubSpot, Social Finance, Boku
IPO HubSpot, a provider of online marketing software to SMEs, raised $125 million in its IPO. After originally declaring that it would be pricing its stock in the $19-$21 range, it ended up selling 5 million shares at $25. HubSpot … Continue reading
The Exit Report: Alibaba, Mojang, FeedHenry
IPO Alibaba’s stock popped 35% on Friday, the much anticipated first day of trading for the Chinese e-commerce company. The shares, which were priced at $68, reached as high as $99.70 but settled around $93.89 at close of trading on … Continue reading
Alibaba’s Road to the Largest Tech IPO Ever
Over the past two weeks, institutional investors have piled into the Alibaba roadshow as if the company was handing out free money. The long awaited process started three years ago and the biggest tech IPO ever has the potential to … Continue reading
The Exit Report: Alibaba, Hubspot, Twitch
IPO Four of the six underwriters of the Alibaba IPO now have even more skin in the game. In a move rarely made by investment banks, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley have extended a $3 billion … Continue reading
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