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IPO

Fitbit IPO: Shares soar 48 percent on first day of trading

Fitbit shares surged to $30.40 at the opening bell of the company’s first day on the market, as the wearable technology… Read More

Portland’s Puppet Labs planning to go public next year

Puppet Labs is planning to go public as soon as next year, potentially making it the first company in Portland,… Read More

Unicorn envy: Where is Seattle’s next billion-dollar idea?

View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion… Read More

Flash sales leader Gilt Groupe raises $50M as it watches Zulily’s shares crash

Gilt Groupe may now have enough runway to hold off on an IPO until the public markets warm to flash sales companies… Read More

Madrona-backed advertising startup MaxPoint files for $75M IPO

MaxPoint Interactive, a hyperlocal advertising startup backed by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, has filed for an initial public offering. Madrona, though… Read More

Box reportedly raises $175 million in IPO

After a wild ride on its way to the public markets, Box has raised $175 million in its initial public… Read More

Etsy reportedly planning IPO as soon as this quarter

Etsy may go public as soon as this quarter, with plans to raise up to $300 million, reports Bloomberg, citing a… Read More

Box finally sets IPO price range, could raise $162M

Box has taken the next step towards its eventual IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it plans to… Read More

Juno Therapeutics stock rises 45% after first day as public company

Juno Therapeutics‘ first day as a public company is in the books — and it certainly was a good one.… Read More

Juno Therapeutics boosts IPO price range to $21 to $23, aims to raise $212M

Juno Therapeutics boosted its IPO range at $21 to $23 per share today as the fast-growing Seattle biotech startup prepares… Read More

Juno Therapeutics files for IPO, a year after founding, seeking $150M for cancer breakthroughs

Juno Therapeutics, a heavily funded biotech company with a novel approach to fighting cancer, filed plans for an initial public… Read More

App analytics company New Relic files for $100M IPO

New Relic, a San Francisco-based company that builds software and app monitoring software, filed for a $100 million initial public offering… Read More

Box reportedly delaying IPO until next year due to market conditions

Box, the cloud storage company founded by two Mercer Island High School grads, will probably postpone its initial public offering until… Read More

News Brief

Alibaba’s higher IPO price would make it more valuable than Amazon, Disney

Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company in China, is now seeking to raise $66 to $68 a share in its U.S.… Read More

Fresh off IPO, pet health insurance company Trupanion posts 42% revenue gain

Trupanion, the Seattle pet health insurance company that completed a $73 million IPO last month, continues to add new customers… Read More

Cancer research company Immune Design raises $60M in IPO

Trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker IMDZ, Seattle biotech company Immune Design today priced its initial public offering at… Read More

Box picks up $150M in funding, at $2.4B valuation, prior to IPO

Box, the cloud data storage company started by a pair of Mercer Island High School grads, has picked up an… Read More

Box reportedly seeking additional funding ahead of its IPO

Box, the online storage company started by a pair of Mercer Island High School graduates, is seeking additional funding from… Read More

GoDaddy files for $100 million IPO, founder Bob Parsons resigns as chairman

Domain giant GoDaddy filed for its initial public offering this afternoon, seeking to raise at least $100 million and providing new… Read More

Alder BioPharmaceuticals stock flat after unexciting IPO

Alder BioPharmaceuticals had a fairly ho-hum first day on Wall Street today. The Bothell-based biotech company’s stock closed at $10.03… Read More

Food ordering service GrubHub to feed hungry investors by raising IPO expectations

With more companies going public in the first quarter of 2014 than in any other year since the dotcom heyday… Read More

Candy Crash? King Digital slips 10% in IPO debut

King Digital Entertainment, the maker of the hit Candy Crush Saga game, is trading at nearly 10 percent below its… Read More

Online storage company Box files for $250M IPO

Box, the Los Altos, California-based online storage company that was started by Mercer Island High School grads Dylan Smith and… Read More

Alibaba invades Amazon’s turf with U.S. IPO

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has finally confirmed it will be having an initial public offering in the U.S. The event… Read More

GoDaddy prepping for IPO

GoDaddy is currently in talks with a number of investment banks to find a backer for an initial public offering,… Read More

Zulily reports stellar Q4 results with sales up 100%

Zulily did not let down its investors, who sent shares higher today, in anticipation of a strong holiday quarter. In… Read More

Crushing it: King’s IPO filing shows nearly $1.9B in revenue

After a decade in business, casual game maker King Digital Entertainment saw its revenue soar to nearly $1.9 billion in… Read More

Facebook fraud: Oregon politician sentenced to prison after fooling investors

Craig Berkman, an Oregon politician who ran for governor in 1994, was sentenced to six years in a federal prison… Read More

IPO study: 2014 could be big year for companies to go public

If you thought 2013 was a good year for tech IPOs, well, 2014 could get a lot more interesting. A… Read More

DocuSign is planning for an eventual IPO

Virtual signatures are big business, and one Seattle-based company is hoping that will propel them to a successful IPO. According… Read More

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