The 2020 tech IPO drought in Silicon Valley is about to end after a wave of filings on Monday brought 13 new companies into the IPO pipeline. Now, four software unicorns and a PC maker are contending for the year’s first tech listing out of the Bay...read more
87 venture-backed companies IPO'd in 2019, in line with 2018. These companies raised $26.3 billion in the IPO market, a more than $11 billion increase over the previous year. Driven by strong biotech activity and a rising number of large tech unicorns,...read more
2019 IPO Market: Better Than the Headlines The long-awaited debuts of mega unicorns Uber and Lyft were mega busts, capped off by WeWork’s kamikaze IPO attempt in September. But beyond these headline-grabbing disappointments, the IPO market had a mostly...read more
Disappointing returns have made investors especially sensitive to the valuations of new IPOs. Along with a broad contraction in high-flying growth stocks (e.g. ZM, PD), many of the year's most high-profile, highly-valued growth IPOs have lost 20% or more...read more
Silicon Valley’s tech IPO drought is about to end
The 2020 tech IPO drought in Silicon Valley is about to end after a wave of filings on Monday brought 13 new companies into the IPO pipeline. Now, four software unicorns and a PC maker are contending for the year’s first tech listing out of the Bay...read more
The 2019 IPO market's most active venture capital firms
87 venture-backed companies IPO'd in 2019, in line with 2018. These companies raised $26.3 billion in the IPO market, a more than $11 billion increase over the previous year. Driven by strong biotech activity and a rising number of large tech unicorns,...read more
Renaissance Capital's 2019 US IPO Market Review
2019 IPO Market: Better Than the Headlines The long-awaited debuts of mega unicorns Uber and Lyft were mega busts, capped off by WeWork’s kamikaze IPO attempt in September. But beyond these headline-grabbing disappointments, the IPO market had a mostly...read more
Challenging IPO market causes October deals to price down
Disappointing returns have made investors especially sensitive to the valuations of new IPOs. Along with a broad contraction in high-flying growth stocks (e.g. ZM, PD), many of the year's most high-profile, highly-valued growth IPOs have lost 20% or more...read more