SurveyMonkey, which helps businesses gather feedback through its survey platform, has submitted paperwork to the SEC for its upcoming NASDAQ public offering. The company plans to raise $100 million in the IPO, per the filing, though that’s likely a placeholder amount. The company, which will list under the symbol SVMK, has yet to price its […]
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July sets a record for number of $100M+ venture capital rounds
In July 2018, the tech sector’s leisure class — venture capitalists — kicked investments into overdrive, at least when it comes to financing supergiant venture rounds of $100 million or more. With 55 deals accounting for just over $15 billion, July likely set an all-time record for the number of huge venture deals struck in a single month.
View More July sets a record for number of $100M+ venture capital roundsWhat every startup founder should know about exits
The dream of a startup founder can often be summarized by the following well-intentioned, and mostly delusional, quote: “We’ll raise a few rounds and in a few years we’ll IPO on Nasdaq.”
View More What every startup founder should know about exitsHome run exits happen stealthily for biotech
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Shoe startups aren’t dragging their feet Startup exit tallies commonly underestimate biotech returns. Unlike most tech deals, the biggest profits in bio often come long after an IPO or acquisition. Take Juno Therapeutics, a publicly traded cancer immunology company […]
View More Home run exits happen stealthily for biotechPublic shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq
Tilray, a five-year-old, British Columbia-based medical cannabis company that sells its products to patients, researchers, pharmacies and even governments, saw its shares get high (sorry) on the Nasdaq today, after the company priced 9 million shares at $17 apiece and watched them soar, closing at $22.39, a jump of slightly more than 32 percent. The […]
View More Public shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on NasdaqChina’s largest music streaming business is planning a US IPO
Fresh from Spotify’s unique direct listing in the U.S., another huge streaming service is about to follow suit and go public in America. Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) has nothing like the global profile of Spotify, but China’s top streaming service is heading for the U.S. public markets according to a filing made this weekend by […]
View More China’s largest music streaming business is planning a US IPOThe state of the IPO market
Fifteen months ago, I predicted 2017 would be “the best year for tech IPOs since the dot-com heyday almost two decades ago.” Well, that was not exactly what happened.
View More The state of the IPO marketSurveyMonkey has filed confidentially to go public
The IPO window continues to remain open as SurveyMonkey, which last raised money in 2014 at a $2 billion valuation, announced today that it has confidentially filed to go public. SurveyMonkey can file confidentially with the SEC through the JOBS act signed in 2012, which allows those companies to test the waters before they formally […]
View More SurveyMonkey has filed confidentially to go publicTo become a public company, start operating like one early on
There is a generation of well-funded, fast-growing technology companies now eyeing the public markets as the platform for continued rapid growth. The pipeline is healthy. But what needs to be done to get ready for an IPO and, crucially, what comes next?
View More To become a public company, start operating like one early onAirbnb CEO said company will ‘be ready to IPO next year’ but might not
Airbnb brings in billions of dollars of revenue annually and is profitable on an EBITDA basis, so many wonder if and when the home-sharing company will go public. At the Code Conference today, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company will “be ready to IPO next year, but I don’t know if we will.” He […]
View More Airbnb CEO said company will ‘be ready to IPO next year’ but might notDon’t expect Ubuntu maker Canonical to IPO this year
Canonical, the company best known for its Ubuntu Linux distribution, is on a path to an IPO. That’s something Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth has been quite open about. But don’t expect that IPO to happen this year. “We did decide as a company — and that’s not just my decision — but we […]
View More Don’t expect Ubuntu maker Canonical to IPO this yearEquity podcast: Circle raises $110, VCs hunt liquidity, and the Vision Fund’s possible twin
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today Matthew Lynley, Connie Loizos and I were joined by Semil Shah, the founder of seed-stage fund Haystack and venture partner at Lightspeed. This week, we stuck to our roots: big rounds, venture capital liquidity thirst, one IPO, two […]
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