WeWork hasn't even gone public yet, but the start-up is already one of the most controversial companies out there.Now valued at $47 billion, the 9-year-old office-sharing juggernaut has inspired plenty of skepticism about its valuation, as well as...
This year has already seen several high profile initial public offerings and the results have been mixed. Ride-sharing giants Uber (UBER) and Lyft (LYFT) have been disappointing so far with both trading below the IPO price. Uber has been holding...
Endeavor has officially made a move that many from Wall Street to Hollywood have long expected, filing with the SEC to become a publicly traded company. No range was given in the S-1 prospectus for how much the company hopes to raise from the...
Luckin Coffee (NASDAQ: LK) just finished an IPO, and it plans to add thousands of locations across China as it attempts to supplant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) as the country's No. 1 coffee brand. The chain has decided to prize growth above...
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Gerry Smith is the CEO of cloud computing firm Densify, and served as CEO of enterprise software provider Changepoint for more than a decade.
In the fall of 2000, Smith was deciding whether to take Changepoint public when he heard his family home...
Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) stock recently plunged to a multi-year low after the tech giant posted decelerating sales, its first quarterly loss since its IPO, and guidance for roughly flat sales growth in the second quarter.Baidu tried to smooth things...
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And they'd still have a half billion dollars left over for avocado toast.
From Mark Hulbert: Recent IPOs do not suggest that investors are irrationally exuberant.
That’s an important lesson to draw, because many companies going public of late, such as Uber Technologies UBER, +0.19% and Lyft LYFT, +1.93% ,...
Shares of Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) declined nearly 11% today. While there wasn't any company-specific news, the animal-free protein provider has soared since its initial public offering (IPO). Things may have gotten a little out of hand.After all,...
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Maria Hedengren is the former chief financial officer of iZettle, the Swedish payments company that sold to PayPal for $2.2 billion last year.
Hedengren had spent a year and a half working on a plan to take iZettle public. The company was just a day...
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IPO-bound Postmates is under fire right now after making some changes to its payments structure for its delivery workers. Organizers at Working Washington say these changes can reduce pay for typical jobs by up to 30 percent.
Up until this past...
Slack updated its IPO paperwork on Monday with a new ticker symbol.
The company will go public on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker "WORK." It previously filed to list shares under the ticker "SK."
Slack is expected to go pubic in a direct...
Chinese streaming-video company YY (NASDAQ: YY) spun off its video-game-streaming unit into a new company called Huya (NYSE: HUYA) with an IPO last May. Huya then impressed investors with five straight quarterly reports featuring massive revenue...
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On this week's episode of Industry Focus: Tech, we're checking back in on some of our old company pals from IF's recent past. What have Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), and DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) been up to since they went public?...
Related topics: Nasdaq, US Equity Markets
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Clinc is today announcing a $52 million Series B. The company behind the conversational AI platform netted cash from Insight Partners, DFJ Growth, Drive Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and others.
This round of...
Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), the visual discovery company that allows people to find inspirational images for everything from do-it-yourself projects to recipes, saw strong revenue growth in its first-quarter 2019 and improved its net losses.The...
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Welcome back to another transcribed edition of Equity, the wildly popular TechCrunch podcast that digs deep into the week’s news about … equity.
There were no IPOs this week so there was only one episode, but it was jam-packed with news...
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Uber went public this month on the New York Stock Exchange in a much-watched IPO.
Since it was founded in 2009, Uber has transformed the ride-hailing industry and grown to become the most valuable companies in the world.
See the highs and lows of...
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