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The End Game for IPOs 🔔

The End Game for IPOs 🔔
October 28, 2021

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Call it a "Back-to-Basics" edition of the Daily Stack, but sometimes you need to consider what all these private companies and their investors are vying for. What's their end game? Utopian mission statements aside, many of the businesses we cover here on the Daily Stack are shooting for a big payday. For many, that payday comes upon "going public". They can either create new shares in an IPO or use existing shares via a direct listing. While the company carries on after going public, making it to this point is an end as much as it is a beginning. Investors, in particular, can cash out on their early interest in the company to start the whole process over somewhere else.

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Rent the Runway is one such company that just went public. The company debuted Wednesday on the Exchange, selling 17 million shares at $23 per share. Those numbers bring the company's market valuation to $1.3BN compared with its last funding round valuation of $870MM. With employee shares and other holdings, the fully diluted value is around $1.5BN (for a definition of fully diluted, I'll defer). With the $357MM of fresh funding from the public, the company plans to expand its subscribership in monthly rentals and move into the resale market popularized by companies like The Real Real and Rebag

Informatica, a Redwood city enterprise software company, just debuted a second time after it was taken private by Canada's Pension Plan Investment Board and Permira back in 2015 for $5.3BN. The cloud data management provider is now worth $7.9BN. Its IPO adds to the $33BN pool raised by 67 software companies so far this year.

Nerdwallet had a tough year in 2020, only growing by 7.5%, which, for a venture-backed business, is not considered good. Still, the company has proved valuable, doling out free financial advice and charging a commission to financial institutions who benefit. The company's expected IPO date falls in mid-December at a valuation of around $5BN.

For employees, these are the moments when their stock options finally pay off. For those in the job market after the Great Resignation, there are tips for negotiating these options with the next up & comers, from none other than Nerdwallet themselves. And after Mailchimp infamously never gave out stock options, promising they wouldn't sell before ultimately selling for $10BN+, it’s good to get it in writing.

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Since last week, PrivCo has added:

515 Companies | 74 Funding Activities | 31 M&A Deals

Funding & Deal Highlights:


Trellis raises $14.1MM from Headline Ventures 

Legal Research & Analytics • Round A • Los Angeles, CA
 

Testlio raises $12MM from Spring Lake Equity Partners

Quality Assurance • Round B • San Francisco, CA
 

RealEats raises $16.3MM from Hamilton Lane Advisors

Food & Beverage • Round A • Geneva, NY
 

UserGems raises $20MM from Craft Ventures

Sales AI • Round A • San Francisco, CA
 

Cogniac Corporation raises $10MM from Autotech Ventures

Computer Vision • Round B • San Jose, CA
 

Truepill raises $142MM from Initialized Capital

Heatlhtech • Round D • San Mateo, CA 
 

Crossbeam raises $76MM from a16z

Data Management • Round C • Philadelphia, PA
 

Skyryse raises $200 from Fidelity Management

Passenger Transportation • Round B • Hawthorne, CA
 

ClickUp raises $400MM from Tiger Global & a16z

Workflow Optimization • Round C • San Diego, CA
 

Oak Street Health acquires RubiconMD for $190MM 

Heatlhtech • Acquisition • New York, NY

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