One of Silicon Valley’s “unicorns” (that is, a tech company valued at over $1 billion), Atlassian is the company behind JIRA, HipChat,…
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Square files to go public
Square filed an initial public offering today. The payments company, which was co-founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009, has been…
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Before IPO, Tinder says there’s no ‘dating apocalypse’
Tinder, a company that became popular by making it easy for people to reject potential mates, doesn’t deal well with rejection. Surprising? Maybe.…
Read MoreTaboola gets $117M in funding to build a Google Now for content
Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda started the company in 2007 to do video recommendations, and now it is one of the largest content platforms on the web -- and has just raised a $117M financing round so it can expand even further…
Read MoreLawyer who sold fake shares in Facebook IPO gets 46 months in prison
In the months before Facebook became a public company in May 2012, shares in the social media network were the most sought-after…
Read MoreBox IPO: What a long, strange trip it’s been
Well that certainly took a while. — Aaron Levie (@levie) January 9, 2015 Box CEO Aaron Levie’s self-deprecating tweet on the day…
Read MoreHortonworks sets its IPO price; CEO says Hadoop is ready to explode
Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden spoke to Gigaom to lay out his take on the Hadoop market leading up to the company's IPO, which will likely happen next month.…
Read MoreTwo charts that show why Uber’s valuation isn’t ridiculous
Uber’s latest funding brings the company into the stratosphere of private company valuations. At $40 billion, Uber is believed to be four…
Read MoreFor now, Hortonworks expects its IPO to be worth up to $97M
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has priced its initial public offering at between $12 and $14 a share, according to an updated S-1 form the company filed with the SEC on Monday.…
Read MoreMavenir to acquire 4G security specialist Stoke
One year after it’s IPO, voice-over-LTE networking company Mavenir Systems is looking to expand its expertise into 4G security. This week it announced…
Read MoreUber reportedly going for another $1 billion in funding
In what may be a private company money-raising record, Uber is reportedly raising yet another round. You may be asking yourself —…
Read MoreRoku could file for IPO soon, raise as much as $150 million
Roku wants to go public and raise as much as $150 million, but the filing could be confidential.…
Read MoreBox postpones its IPO again and is now eyeing 2015 to go public
Citing a weak market, Box reportedly delayed its early September IPO plans and is eyeing a market rebound next year; the company originally filed for an IPO in March.…
Read MoreAlibaba IPO: Tracking the price
Want to watch the biggest IPO in American history progress in real-time? Check here for the latest share price.…
Read MoreAlibaba settles on its IPO price — $68
It’s official. Alibaba is going to be the largest IPO in US history. The company is going public Friday and just settled on…
Read MoreFrom ripoff to kingmaker: How Alibaba’s IPO could create a new Silicon Valley power broker
Alibaba is shoring up its war-chest with a massive IPO. But what does it mean for the American startups and tech companies with which Alibaba competes?…
Read MoreGermany’s Rocket reveals IPO with eye on taking over (most of) the world
The e-commerce and financial technology company wants to become "the world's largest internet platform outside of the United States and China."…
Read MoreAlibaba, expected to be the largest IPO in US history, has priced its shares
If Alibaba raises the amount of capital it hopes to, it will become the twenty-third largest listed U.S. company, bigger even than Amazon.…
Read MoreHubSpot files IPO paperwork to raise $100M to grow its marketing software biz
HubSpot's long-rumored IPO is now official as the company files the documents to the SEC.…
Read MoreIs Line going it alone? Messaging app maker reportedly files for $10B IPO
Given the usual strategy for OTT communications apps is to grow big and then sell out to an internet giant, Line’s plan to go independent runs counter to the market.…
Read MoreArista Networks in the spotlight: a closer look at one of the year’s buzziest IPO’s
Arista Networks' much anticipated IPO is not without its challenges, including a lawsuit lodged by one of its own co-founders and a hiccup around friends and family shares.…
Read MoreGoPro wants to be a media company, but doesn’t know how to make money with media yet
GoPro wants to become the first media company that only distributes media shot with its own cameras. But it doesn't expect to make a lot of money with all that media any time soon.…
Read MoreGrubHub debuts on NYSE with a big spike in share price
GrubHub raises $200 million as it debuts on the New York Stock Exchange. The Chicago company is the largest portal for online food takeout and delivery orders in the U.S.…
Read MoreSuperfast networking gear maker Arista files to go public
It’s about time. On Monday Arista, the company behind a generation of superfast and scalable networking gear, filed to raise up to…
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