Private secondary trading platform SecondMarket has revealed its Q1 2012 results. Many of the same charts are available, although the company has added the community banking sector results, reflecting its entry into this new space. Here’s what you need to …
It’s time for Silicon Valley to feed the newest beast. Square is looking to raise an astounding $250 mn at a valuation of between $3 bn and $4 bn. This follows a $100 mn venture capital round last year, according …
Well, Facebook just made a big acquisition, which is news because: (a) it’s Facebook, (b) it’s big and (c) Facebook hasn’t really done this before. So, let the games begin! Shortly before the Facebook IPO, the white-hot social media company …
Mobile photo-sharing start-up Instagram is hitting one milestone after another, these days. It has 30 mn users on the iPhone alone – and picked up another million for Android the first day it was available for the platform. Now, it’s …
Rumor has it that Palo Alto Networks is getting ready to file for its IPO and could go public next quarter. This is what you need to know: 1. The CEO, Mark McLaughlin, used to be a Verisign executive. Other …
Could the floodgates be opening again? Last year, it got especially tough for Chinese companies to go public in the US, but there are early signs of change – or at least signs that change is possible. Vipshop Holdings, an …
Hubspot just picked up a new CFO … and you know what that probably means. The marketing software company – which has an awesome product, by the way – just brought on JD Sherman, who was the CFO at Akamai …
There’s no doubt that 2011 was an exciting year for private shares trading platform SecondMarket. Trading volume surged, and many of the companies trading on its platform are set to go public in the next year. Let’s take a look …
In the tech IPO market, there wasn’t much to celebrate in 2011. Sure, some companies popped, but many of them fell back to Earth. Imperva is among the exceptions, according to an International Business Times report, but the likes of …
Jive Software may lack the name recognition of other social media companies, such as Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. But, it is at the beginning of a ride that’s at least as exciting as those of other social media IPOs. The …