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WeWork Files For an IPO, Trade Under “WE” ticker

15Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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WeWork Files For an IPO, Trade Under “WE” ticker

Co-working startup WeWork filed for an IPO after its parent company "We company" proposes it's stock sale, despite losing money amid rapid expansion. The We Company will trade under the "WE" ticker, as per the reports estimated the IPO valuation will be between $3 and $4 billion. The company also reached an agreement with a consortium of large banks including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs for a $6 billion credit facility that will close with the stock offering. "Not only do we believe our business model mitigates the pressures of an economic recession but we also believe that our model could position us well in a downturn," it said in the filing. "An economic downturn may provide us an opportunity to further scale our platform at more attractive unit economics. The New Yor...

Affle India raises $20.5 million before IPO

27Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

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Affle India raises $20.5 million before IPO

Mobile marketing firm Affle India has raised $20.5 million (about Rs 206.55 crore) from 15 anchor investors by allotting 27,72,483 equity shares at a price of $10.5 per share, before its IPO launch. Affle India Ltd will launch its $60.5 million initial public offerings from July 29 and has fixed a price band of Rs $10.5 per share. The issue will close on July 31, 2019, according to a company statement. Among the 15 anchor investors, Abeerden Asian Smaller Companies Investment and Franklin Templeton Investment Funds has subscribed over 3.05 lakh shares each. Other anchor investors include Goldman Sachs India, Malabar India Fund, among others. The IPO comprises of a fresh issue aggregating up to $13 million and an offer for sale of up to 49,53,020 equity shares by Affle Holdings,...

Online Platform Indiamart IPO subscribed 36 times

27Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

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Online Platform Indiamart IPO subscribed 36 times

27th June, 2019- The initial public offer of IndiaMART InterMESH, an online marketplace for business products and services, was subscribed 35.87 times so far on the final day of bidding on 26th June 2019. The Rs 475 crore IPO received bids for 9,65,97,705 shares against the total issue size of 26,92,824 shares, as per data available with the NSE till 16:45 hrs. The initial public offer (IPO) is of 48,87,862 equity shares including anchor portion of 21,95,038 equity shares. The price range for the offer, which opened for bidding on Monday, has been fixed at Rs 970-973 per share. IndiaMart InterMesh had raised more than Rs 213 crore from anchor investors last week. ICICI Securities Ltd, Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd, an...

Pinterest offers $15-$17 per share in IPO, Values below than $12 billion

8Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Pinterest offers $15-$17 per share in IPO, Values below than $12 billion

Social media platform Pinterest Inc set a price range of $15 to $17 per share for its IPO valuing it below than the $12 billion at which the company raises the last funding in 2017. Pinterest offers 75 million shares through its IPO. After this proposal, the company valuation will be at $10.6B vs previous valuation of $12.3B Earlier, Reuters had reported that Image search social media platform Pinterest list itself on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PINS”. The company, which owns the image search website known for the food and fashion photos that its users post, reported annual revenue of $755.9 million in 2018, up 60 percent from a year earlier. But it remains unprofitable even though its net loss narrowed to $62.97 million in 2018 from $130 million a year earl...

23Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Pinterest files for IPO on NYSE

Pinterest, an image sharing platform with an estimated 250 million users, filed for a public share offering Friday, the latest of the big venture-backed startups to hit Wall Street. The San Francisco-based bulletin board that connects people with interests including food, fashion, travel and lifestyle said it would trade under the symbol PINS on the New York Stock Exchange. "Pinterest is where more than 250 million people around the world go to get inspiration for their lives," the company said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is expected to seek a valuation of around $12 billion. "They come to discover ideas for just about anything you can imagine: daily activities like cooking dinner or deciding what to wear, major commitments like remodeling a ho...

Lyft beats bigger rival Uber, File for $2 billion IPO

18Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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Lyft beats bigger rival Uber, File for $2 billion IPO

USA based online cab aggregator platform Lyft beat bigger rival Uber Technologies in filing for an IPO. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Credit Suisse and Jefferies managing Lyft's IPO. Founded in 2012, the San Francisco based company currently valued at about $15 billion. The cab sharing platform was founded by John Zimmer and Logan Green. However, Lyft did not specify the number of shares in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lyft company is planning for the roadshow to fetch the interest of investors due to escalating trade tensions between the United States and China, which causes turmoil in the financial markets. Investors main concern is the recent stock market weakness that could result in reduced interest in their road shows or fail to fetch them a reaso...

2Jan By AdityaNo Comments

INDIA

‘161 Indian IPO’s garner $5.52 bn till November in 2018’

Indian stock exchanges ranked second globally in terms of number of initial public offerings (IPOs), raising USD 5.52 billion from 161 offerings till November this year, according to a report. At the BSE and the National Stock Exchange, there were only two IPOs in fourth quarter of this calendar year, compared with nine and three in fourth quarter of 2017 and third quarter of 2018, respectively, said EY India IPO Trends: Q4 2018 report. A similar trend was witnessed in the small and medium enterprise (SME) market. There were eight IPOs in fourth quarter of 2018, compared with 31 and 42 in fourth quarter of 2017 and third quarter of 2018, respectively, showing a drop of 74 per cent and 81 per cent, respectively, it said. Industrial sector -- construction and engineering -- was the ...

Hong Kong based Fit Boxx Files for US IPO

29Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Hong Kong based Fit Boxx Files for US IPO

China's Fit Boxx Holdings, which sells beauty, fitness and health care products and devices, is looking forward to raise about $20 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on the US stock market. The company is planning to offer its IPO of 2,500,000 ordinary shares (or 2,875,000 ordinary shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) at a price range of $7.50 to $8.50 apiece. The company anticipates to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol of "FBOX." WestPark Capital is the sole bookrunner on the deal. Founded in 2009, the Hong Kong-based company is specialized in the sourcing, marketing, selling and distribution of a variety of beauty device products and fitness and health care products, which are mainly for home use, under various bran...

Sports Tech Company Golflan Plans to go Public

20Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Sports Tech Company Golflan Plans to go Public

A sports tech company called Golflan which is focused on golf announced its plans of going public by 2020 by launching an IPO, expecting its current streak of growing at 100 per cent annually to continue. It has been stated that the company was on track to close this year with revenues of $6million as against $3million last year. “We are breaking even operationally and will look at listing the company once we hit a revenue run rate of Rs 100 crore,” said Dhruv Verma, CEO Golflan. He has also estimated that Golflan would be at a revenue run rate of Rs 50 crore by 2019, and between Rs80-100 crore by 2020. Also, he is currently in talks with merchant bankers on how they could go ahead with this. As of now, the company has been focused on the b2b side of the g...

China’s Tencent Music Secures $1.1 Billion in US IPO

12Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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China’s Tencent Music Secures $1.1 Billion in US IPO

China’s largest streaming company, Tencent Music has raised $1.1 billion in a U.S. IPO after it priced its shares at $13 a piece ahead of a listing on the Nasdaq. This development makes it one of the largest tech listings of the year, but the pricing is at the bottom end of its $13-$15 range indicating that the much-anticipated IPO has felt the effects of an uncertain market. The company is said to have paused the listing process, which it started in early October, for a time so choppy are the waters right now — and that’s not even mentioning a shareholder-led lawsuit that was filed last week. The company operates a constellation of music streaming services in China which span orthodox Spotify-style streaming as well as karaoke and live-streaming ser...

Cab Aggregator Uber Secretly Plans an IPO

10Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Cab Aggregator Uber Secretly Plans an IPO

Soon after cab aggregator Lyft applied for nearly 2019 initial public offering, Uber is on the same path and the company issecretly planning to file for an IPO, marking the beginning of a race for thetwo ride-hailing giants to the stock markets. Most recently,Uber’s private market valuation was a whopping $72 billion value. Founded in2009, Uber has raised a total of nearly $20 billion in a combination of debtand equity funding. Uber’s currentchief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi previously said he expected the company to completean IPO in mid-2019 but today’s news puts Uber on pace to debut in the firstquarter of next year. “[Uber] has allthe disadvantage of being a public company, with the spotlight on us, with none of the advantages,” Khosrowshahi said. The comp...

Mrs. Bector’s Food & Sansera Engineering Get SEBI Nod for IPO

13Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Mrs. Bector’s Food & Sansera Engineering Get SEBI Nod for IPO

Two companies of two different sectors have received regulatory nods to float initial public offerings (IPOs). Those two companies are biscuit maker Mrs. Bector's Food Specialties and automotive and aerospace component manufacturer Sansera Engineering. With this approval, SEBI has agreed upon a total of 65 IPO proposals in 2018. However, last year, it had cleared 46 proposals. Mrs. Bector's Food is a Ludhiana based food company and it filed its draft proposal on 13 August. The company counts firms like CX Partners and Gateway Partners as its backers. The IPO demanded a sale of shares worth Rs 800 crore by promoter Ajay Bector and CX Partners and Gateway Partners. It will result in 26-27% stake dilution, valuing the biscuit maker at Rs 3,000 crore ($428 million). CX Partners and...