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By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Pivotal, the cloud-software company spun out of Dell EMC and VMware, plans to go public this week. At the high end of its price range, Pivotal’s IPO would net $700 million at a $4 billion valuation. It would be the second largest IPO of 2018 behind Dropbox. (We excluded Spotify from […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Zuora is hoping to raise $88.8 million by selling 10 million shares at $10 per share. Given the strength of current IPO market and Zuora’s value proposition, the company may well become the next unicorn. The San Mateo, California-based software developer is perhaps the biggest proponent of the subscription economy, the […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost With an estimated $750 million offering, Dropbox’s IPO might be the largest in 2018 so far. As we have written in our previous analyses, we continue to believe that Dropbox could become a leading cloud storage and enterprise software company. Dropbox is the only unicorn to generate free cash flow. It […]
By Matthew McCooe, Connecticut Innovations Think back to where Connecticut was 20 years ago. A National Hockey League franchise had just left the state, it was one of the only places in the country where incomes were actually falling and we were known more for David Letterman’s speeding tickets than anything resembling innovation. On the national […]
By Mike Janke, DataTribe I have been a venture capitalist for more than three years, and before that a serial entrepreneur and startup CEO and angel investor. The difference between the two positions is huge. And the experience I developed as a CEO became invaluable when I moved over to the VC side. As a VC […]
By Sean Cunningham, Trident Capital Cybersecurity Given the explosion of ransomware attacks in 2017 and stunning breaches like those at Equifax and the National Security Agency, it’s no surprise that corporations worldwide invested yet another record amount in cybersecurity products and services. Predictably, venture capitalists and their counterparts inside corporations also invested a record amount […]
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost The highly anticipated initial public offering of music-streaming service Spotify is likely to be held in the late Q1 or early Q2 timeframe. We have published a previous Spotify research report about the firm’s growing clout in the global music industry, as well as the pros and cons of a direct-listing […]
By David Teten, HOF Capital A friend of mine interviewed for a job with the massively successful hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen. My friend sat in a conference room. Cohen walked in, looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “What’s your edge?” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible and […]
By Greg Brogger, SharesPost The market forces that drove the evolution of the private secondary markets, such as democratization, globalization, transparency and liquidity, are now driving the adoption of initial coin offerings by private tech companies. After the blizzard of ICO activity in 2017, few would contest that we are on the front end of […]
By Jai Das, Sapphire Ventures This past year has seen an interesting exit market. With new investment vehicles, companies like Uber continuing to stay private and colossal IPOs like Snap ultimately struggling, the 2017 investing environment has certainly offered a lot of insights. For companies looking to IPO, there are a few strategies for success […]