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McAfee Sets Terms of IPO, Hoping to Raise Up to $682 Million

October 13, 2020 | technology | No Comments

McAfee, the cybersecurity company founded by tech eccentric John McAfee, has set the terms for its initial public offering, hoping to raise as much as $682 million in a deal that could value the company at $3.64 billion.

McAfee, based in San Jose, plans to sell 37 million shares at a price of $19 to $22 each. The stock will trade on Nasdaq, with the ticker symbol MCFE, the company said in an SEC filing.

Of the 37 million shares, 30,982,558 will come from the company and 6,017,442 from existing stockholders. McAfee expects to have 165.44 million Class A shares outstanding after the IPO.

In the six months through June 27, McAfee posted profit of $31 million, swinging from a loss of $146 million in the year-earlier period. Revenue rose 9% to $1.4 billion from $1.29 billion.

John McAfee founded McAfee Associates in 1987 and ran it until 1994, when

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Eargo Proposes Terms For $100 Million IPO

October 12, 2020 | technology | No Comments

Eargo (EAR) aims to raise $100 million in an IPO of its common stock, according to an S-1 registration statement.

San Jose, California-based Eargo was founded to develop modern hearing aid products that can be worn in the ear in a virtually invisible manner, reducing the stigma of hearing loss treatments.

Management is headed by president and CEO Christian Gormsen, who has been with the firm since 2014 and was previously at GN Group, an intelligent audio solutions company.

Below is a brief video of Eargo’s product commercial:

Source: Eargo

The company’s primary offering is its Neo HiFi in ear hearing aid.

Eargo has received at least $153 million from investors including New Enterprise Associates, Maveron, Future Fund, Pivotal Alpha, Cooperative Glide Healthcare, Longitude Venture Partners and The Charles and Helen Schwab Living Trust.

The company markets its hearing aid directly to consumers via online and offline media and a

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Forget Snowflake — This Is the Software IPO That Caught My Eye

October 12, 2020 | software | No Comments

Last month, investors went absolutely bananas for software initial public offerings, or IPOs. No company highlighted the craze more than Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) — shares of which have more than doubled from their initial price.

But in the Snowflake-induced haze of IPO stocks, another company caught my attention: JFrog Ltd. (NASDAQ:FROG). This company checks off a lot of boxes that I look for in an investment: founder-led, strong balance sheet, and a barbell approach that seems to be working very well.

That said, two issues give me pause. Read below to get the whole story.

Cloud online storage technology concept. with magnifying glass

Image source: Getty Images

First, the company from 30,000 feet

I’m a big fan of solid mission statements. When those mission statements can easily convey what a technology company does to a non-techie like myself, I like it even more. JFrog’s mission is “to power a world of continuously updated, version-less software.” The company calls

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U.S. should try to delay IPO of China’s Ant Group, Senator Rubio says

October 10, 2020 | technology | No Comments

By Alexandra Alper

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Marco Rubio, who has successfully urged the Trump administration to pursue investigations of Chinese companies, called on Friday for the U.S. government to consider options to delay an initial public offering of China’s Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

“It’s outrageous that Wall Street is rewarding the Chinese Communist Party’s blatant crackdown on Hong Kong’s freedom and autonomy by orchestrating Ant Group’s IPO on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges,” Rubio, a Republican, said in a statement to Reuters.

“The Administration should take a serious look at the options available to delay Ant Group’s IPO,” he added.

The Hong Kong leg of the IPO, part of a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, is being sponsored by China International Capital Corp, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley. Credit Suisse is working as a joint global coordinator. Goldman Sachs

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Codiak BioSciences Puts Finishing Touches On $83 Million IPO

October 7, 2020 | technology | No Comments

Codiak BioSciences (CDAK) has filed to raise $82.5 million from the sale of its common stock in an IPO, according to an amended registration statement.

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Codiak Biosciences was founded in 2015 to develop new exosome-based allogeneic therapies – “therapies derived from human cells that can be used in any patient.”

Management is headed by President, CEO and Director Douglas E. Williams, who has been with the firm since its inception and was previously Executive Vice President Research and Development at Biogen.

Codiak has developed the engEx Platform, a proprietary platform for the engineering and manufacturing of exosomes with “intentionally chosen properties, to incorporate various types of biologically active molecules, including small molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, antibodies, enzymes, cytokines and complex ligands, and to be directed to specific cell types and tissues.”

Management believes engEx to be easily expandable to support siRNA, miRNA, mRNA, ASO and CRISPR, “to engage

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iHuman Finalizes $84 Million IPO Plan

October 6, 2020 | technology | No Comments

iHuman (IH) intends to raise $84 million from the sale of ADSs representing underlying Class A stock in an IPO, according to an amended registration statement.

Beijing, China-based iHuman was founded to create a subscription and advertising supported online service that provides the ability for young children to learn languages, math science and culture in a fun environment.

Management says it is the number one provider of online childhood edutainment in China, according to a Frost & Sullivan report that it commissioned and paid for.

Management is headed by founder, and Chairman Michael Yufeng Chi, who was previously founder of Beijing Jinhongen Co. and Perfect World Group, a ‘global entertainment company focusing on original content creation and technology.’

Below is a brief overview video of iHuman:

Source: iHuman Chinese

The company’s primary content offerings include:

Languages – Chinese, Pinyin, English
Math
Culture
STEM courses

iHuman has received at least $53

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AppLovin hires Morgan Stanley to lead IPO

October 5, 2020 | technology | No Comments

A man plays a game on a smartphone.

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AppLovin, the U.S. mobile app and gaming company backed by private equity firm KKR, has hired Morgan Stanley to lead preparations for an initial public offering (IPO) which could come early in 2021, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company has flirted with the idea of an IPO for years, but had never taken a concrete preparatory step. It is the latest mobile gaming startup to eye a stock market listing, as demand for video games surges among consumers staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The sources requested anonymity because the IPO preparations are confidential and cautioned that the plans are subject to market conditions.

“Today gaming is a fractured, fragmented market. I think the market will consolidate, and I think AppLovin will be one of those consolidators,” Ted Oberwager, a managing

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Poshmark Holds PoshFest During IPO Silent Period

October 3, 2020 | technology | No Comments

Holding a public event during a time of mandated silence by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can make for an awkward affair. Nonetheless, social resale platform Poshmark pressed on to hold its eighth annual conference for its community of sellers on Friday and Saturday.

The goal of PoshFest is to energize the community of “seller stylists” and showcase upcoming and recently launched features. But as the company dished on its latest tools, along the way it also wound up providing notable context for its upcoming initial public offering.

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As founder and chief executive officer Manish Chandra made clear, the company is in a state of constant development. And its moves over the past year have positioned the platform as a blend of some of the top retail trends of the moment. Beyond the company’s core premise of socially driven resale, it moved into short videos and

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Exclusive: Airbnb aims to raise roughly $3 billion in IPO – sources

October 3, 2020 | technology | No Comments

By Anirban Sen, Joshua Franklin

(Reuters) – Home rental company Airbnb Inc is aiming to raise around $3 billion in its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Friday, taking advantage of the unexpectedly sharp recovery in its business after the COVID-19 pandemic roiled the travel industry.

FILE PHOTO: A woman talks on the phone at the Airbnb office headquarters in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California, U.S., August 2, 2016. REUTERS/Gabrielle Lurie/File Photo

Airbnb will be one of the largest and most anticipated U.S. stock market listings of 2020 which has already been a blockbuster year for IPOs, featuring the likes of record label Warner Music Group WMG.O, data analytics firm Palantir Technologies PLTR.N and data warehouse company Snowflake Inc SNOW.N.

Airbnb said in August it had filed confidentially for an IPO with U.S. regulators.

The company’s current plan is to

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Is the IPO Market Stealing Big Tech’s Thunder?

October 2, 2020 | technology | No Comments

Investors were dumping FAANG stocks again Friday and there just may be some very plausible explanations as to why that’s happening after an apparent rebound from a correction over and done with.

FAANG stocks fell 13% in a span of several weeks in September. Valuations were in re-rate mode as at-home growth services like cloud computing, data center storage, e-commerce and streaming may have seen a massive demand pulled forward from later years in the maturity cycle of these businesses. Friday, FAANG stocks were down more than 2% by 2:15 PM EDT. Cyclical stocks, on a day which employment figures missed estimates and caused some investor anxiety in the morning about the speed of the economic recovery, mostly rose. And the 10-Year Treasury yield rose to as much as 0.70% from 0.67%. That indicates growing inflation expectations, which indicates a recovering economy and means investors do not have to take

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