Another day, another IPO filing. Vancouver, Wash.-based nLight, a maker of high-powered lasers which are used in aerospace, defense and manufacturing, filed to go public on Friday. It is looking… Read More
Dropbox got the famous “bump” in its first hour of trading on the Nasdaq Friday, hitting a high of $31 in early trading after setting its initial price at $21… Read More
The stock market had a rough Thursday, but Dropbox is looking ahead to Friday’s trading, when it will officially become a public company with an opening price higher than the… Read More
Dropbox updated its IPO prospectus Monday with the intended offering price for its shares on the Nasdaq, disclosing plans to sell 36 million shares in hopes of raising up to… Read More
The last time Glenn Kelman was involved in a company that went public, the executive team treated it as just another financing event. That was 15 years ago when Plumtree… Read More
Redfin and Zillow are close neighbors in Seattle, but they’ve not always gotten along. The two companies have vastly different cultures, management teams and business models, though both share a… Read More
Redfin is inching closer to its proposed initial public offering, with the so-called “technology-powered residential real estate brokerage” setting terms for its debut on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In a… Read More
Is Redfin a real estate brokerage or a tech company? That’s the key question as the Seattle company — originally founded in 2002 under the name Appliance Computing Inc. —… Read More
The economic winds are blowing favorably for those companies venturing into the IPO waters, with a new report released today showing that the number of initial public offerings across the… Read More
Update: Snap closed its first day of trading at $24.48 per share, up 44 percent from its initial offering price of $17. Original story: Snap Inc. shares started trading at $24… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its shares at $17 apiece on Wednesday, raising around $3.4 billion in its initial public offering. It’s the largest public offering for a U.S. tech company… Read More
Is Rover barking up the IPO tree? The fast-growing Seattle based online pet sitting and dog walking marketplace is targeting an initial public offering in 2018, CEO Aaron Easterly said… Read More
PALM DESERT, Calif.— With nearly 2,000 employees and tens of thousands of customers across the globe, DocuSign certainly could be on the short list of potential IPO candidates. But don’t… Read More
Get ready for another IPO. Trivago, the German-based online travel giant that’s owned by Bellevue-based Expedia, filed for an initial public offering this week. It is looking to raise $400… Read More
Bellevue-based Apptio is moving closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, disclosing today that it plans to sell six million shares of class A common stock at $13 to $15 per… Read More
Another Seattle area technology company is looking to test the IPO waters. Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio, which makes software to help CIOs better manage their IT departments, today filed documents with… Read More
Wall Street likes what they see in Impinj, a 16-year-old Seattle-based maker of Radio Frequency Identification technology that today went public on Nasdaq at $14 per share. That was the… Read More
OK, folks, it’s Friday, so let’s have a little trivia competition. Does anyone know the name of the startup company — founded in 2008 by a former Amazon Web Services… Read More
It’s a bleak time on Wall Street, at least if you’re trying to take your company public. Just six venture-backed companies — all of them in the life sciences and… Read More
Editas Medicine filed the paperwork for an initial public offering today, marking a first for the growing number of private ventures that aim to take advantage of a powerful gene-editing… Read More
A lot of “unicorns” have been spotted in recent months in the tech industry, but not many IPOs. Despite strong public offerings this week from mobile payments company Square and Tinder… Read More
In an annual survey of global venture capitalists, investors disclosed what they are most excited about — and what keeps them up at night. When it comes to investment sectors,… Read More
Apptio has been discussed as possible IPO candidate for some time now, but it appears as if the Bellevue-based enterprise software company is finally getting ready to make the plunge.… Read More
There’s a lot of talk of unicorns these days — private companies that are raising piles of venture capital at billion dollar valuations all while shunning the public markets. But… Read More
The market for initial public offerings softened in the first quarter, with a new report from Renaissance Capital indicating that the number of IPOs hit a two-year low. Just 34… Read More
Box, the 10-year-old enterprise software company started by Mercer Island High School grads Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, is soaring after pricing shares in its initial public offering. The company,… Read More
Big money was flowing in the tech sector in 2014, as evidenced by these blockbuster deals. According to Statista, the top 10 venture-backed exits brought in nearly $50 billion through… Read More
After several years of slumping returns and lackluster performance, the venture capital industry is back. According to a report released today from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association, U.S.… Read More
What’s ahead for 2015 in the tech industry? Members of the GeekWire news team offer their perspectives with this look ahead the key stories and trends we’ll be tracking in the coming year, with… Read More
Juno Therapeutics, a heavily-funded cancer research company that was formed just 16 months ago, priced its initial public offering Thursday night at $24 per share. That was above the expected… Read More