As the partial US government shutdown drags on, the disruption to the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) is building up. The longest closure in history—with no end in sight—may already ripple through the entire first quarter, according...
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Wall Street Journal: “The partial closure of the Securities and Exchange Commission is delaying the ability of companies to open the IPO market… The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has dramatically curtailed inspections of domestic...
One of last year's more disappointing IPOs was Tencent Music Entertainment (NYSE: TME), but China's leading streaming music service is starting to make waves. The stock that has been a broken IPO since its third day of trading -- falling below last...
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Last April, Spotify surprised Wall Street bankers by choosing to go public through a direct listing process rather than through a traditional IPO. Instead of issuing new shares, the company simply sold existing shares held by insiders, employees...
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Slack's chief product officer April Underwood announced Thursday that she'll be leaving the $7.1 billion startup to focus on #Angels, an organization she co-founded that focuses on investing in female founders.
Underwood is widely considered the...
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Uber and Lyft have both confidentially filed for IPOs with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are expected to go public in 2019.
While the ride-hailing competitors have dueling IPOs, Google's parent company Alphabet stands to gain no matter...
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This year was supposed to be the year of the unicorn initial public offering, with massively funded private startups like Uber, Lyft, and Slack all preparing to go public.
Now, just two weeks into the year, bankers say it's turning into a...
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Goldman Sachs on Wednesday disclosed its sale last year of a stake in Uber.
It was part of chief financial officer Stephen Scherr's extended explanation of the Wall Street firm's investing and lending segment.
Goldman's fourth-quarter results got a...
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IPO? Maybe 2019. Perhaps 2020. Depends, OK? Enterprise cloud botherer Infor announced today that shareholders were tipping the best part of $1.5bn into its coffers ahead of a potential IPO.…
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PagerDuty, an IT incident response startup, has reportedly filed confidentially for an IPO.
PagerDuty was last valued at $1.3 billion in funding round backed by Silicon Valley VCs like Andreessen Horowitz and Accel.
Despite filing the paperwork,...
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2019 was supposed to be a blockbuster year for tech companies going public — but the volatility of the public markets is making some employees at IPO-bound tech companies nervous.
We spoke to a current employee at Uber and a current...
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Tilray shares are back under $100, and a routine IPO lock-up expiration has removed almost 10% of the value of its shares in just one day.
Shares of Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) sank 10.8% as of 10:54 a.m. EST on Tuesday after falling as much as 14% earlier in the morning. It was a day of reckoning of sorts for the Canadian marijuana producer as its initial public offering (IPO) lockup period...
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Slack hopes it can repeat the success of Spotify's unusual public offering.
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Shares of YETI Holdings (NYSE: YETI) surged as much as 14% at market open today. While still up by double digits near 11 a.m. on Monday, activity then cooled, and this recent IPO's stock was up 6.8% at 1 p.m. EST on Monday. Today's big surge was a...
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Uber is moving quickly toward its initial public offering, which Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says will be sometime this year. As the company gets closer to that date, more information about Uber's financials has been released. The latest revelation...
The government shutdown entered its 21st day on Friday, upping concerns of potentially long-lasting impacts on the U.S. stock market. Private market investors around the country applauded when Uber finally filed documents with the SEC to go...
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The traditional initial public offering process may be in the process of being disrupted.
Spotify went public last year using a different process and may soon be followed by enterprise software company Slack.
Startups have good reasons to spurn...
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The interoffice messaging platform probably has enough cash on hand to IPO without an underwriter. Boo hoo, Goldman Sachs.
Slack may bypass the marquee IPO underwriters like Goldman Sachs and go directly to the market with its upcoming public...
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