A good showing: 26 venture-backed IPOs completed in Q3 The market for initial public offerings continued to accelerate in the third quarter as 26 venture-backed companies started trading on… Read More
Maveron-backed Potbelly Sandwich Shop files for $75M IPO This IPO could be really yummy? Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago restaurant chain founded in 1977, has filed to raise… Read More
Uh, oh! Down rounds on the rise Things appear to be humming in the venture capital world. Returns are improving (though in many instances they are still… Read More
Stem cell biology company Fate Therapeutics files for $69 million IPO Could this be another example of a startup that got away? Fate Therapeutics, which started in Seattle six years ago… Read More
Unexpected outcome: Control4 IPO could provide nice return for dormant Seattle VC firm Frazier Technology Ventures announced four years ago that it would no longer make new investments, and initiate the slow process… Read More
Zillow is flying high two years after IPO: Can this stock go much higher? When Zillow went public at $20 per share two years ago, some doubters believed that the online real estate company… Read More
Nanostring IPO disappoints as shares fall 20% on first day It was a tough first day on the stock market for Seattle’s NanoString Technologies, with shares falling 19.4 percent on Wednesday as… Read More
Strong debut: Tableau closes first day of trading up 63% Champagne corks were popping this morning at Tableau Software offices as the Seattle-based company celebrated the biggest tech IPO so… Read More
Q&A with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: ‘We’ve been working our whole lives to become an overnight success’ Seven years ago in small office space in the Fremont neighborhood, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot boldly told me that… Read More
Video: Watch the very happy Tableau team ring the opening bell on the NYSE It doesn’t get much better than this for a group of entrepreneurs. Tableau Software made its debut on the New… Read More
Shares of Tableau Software surge more than 50% as IPO sparkles on Wall Street Tableau Software is starting on the New York Stock Exchange today with a bang. After pricing its initial public offering… Read More
Here’s what the VCs and founders will make in Tableau’s blockbuster IPO Tableau Software is expected to go public tonight on the New York Stock Exchange, a significant milestone for the 10-year-old… Read More
Tableau boosts IPO price range to $28 to $30, signaling strong demand for shares Tableau is inching closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the Seattle maker of data visualization software expected to begin… Read More
As Tableau readies for IPO, Marc Andreessen laments that tech companies don’t want to go public Tableau Software is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange this Friday under the ticker symbol “DATA,”… Read More
Fast-growing Tableau sets IPO range at $23 to $26 per share Tableau Software, the fast-growing 10-year-old Seattle company which helps businesses and organization make better sense of their data, has set… Read More
Tableau Software updates IPO filing, shows growing sales and Q1 net loss of $3.7M Tableau Software’s revenue grew at a rapid clip during the first quarter, but the Seattle maker of data visualization products… Read More
Startup valuations rise even as VCs don’t get as many exits Valuations at startup companies continue to increase, even though venture capitalists aren’t cashing out on deals as frequently as they’d… Read More
Perseverance and patience: How Tableau made the IPO leap after 10 years Good things come to those who wait, especially if those who wait have a big audacious mission that they are… Read More
Fast-growing Tableau Software files for $150M IPO Tableau Software, the Seattle maker of data visualization products, has filed to raise up to $150 million in an initial… Read More
IPO drought continues with 8 venture-backed deals in Q1 It’s a tough time to take your company public. Just eight venture-backed companies completed IPOs during the first quarter of… Read More
Venture-backed IPOs and mergers decline in 2012 after Facebook’s sluggish debut Forty nine venture-backed companies completed initial public offerings during 2012, a slight decline over 2011 when 51 companies made the… Read More
INRIX hires new CFO as it heads down the IPO path, picks startup vet to lead mobile efforts INRIX is driving toward an initial public offering, and today the Kirkland-based provider of traffic information analysis hired a new… Read More
Marc Andreessen says Wall Street really hates tech stocks: What do you think? Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is making headlines today for comments he made at a tech conference hosted by The New… Read More
F5’s McAdam joins board of Tableau: IPO chatter continues F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has joined the board of Tableau Software, the fast-growing Seattle data visualization company. The appointment… Read More
Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time It’s shaping up to be an average year for initial public offerings, with about 125 companies listing shares to date.… Read More
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman: If we don’t screw up, we could go public in 2014 Redfin has watched some of its peers take on Wall Street, with Trulia and Zillow both going public in the… Read More
Inside look at Realogy IPO shows strong alliances with Zillow and Trulia The initial public offerings of online real estate upstarts Trulia and Zillow may have grabbed headlines in the past two… Read More
INRIX picks bankers, inches closer to IPO It’s no secret that Bryan Mistele wants to take INRIX public. But the Kirkland provider of traffic data appears to… Read More
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff sounds off on the JOBS Act, calls it a ‘step backwards’ The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, was signed into law by President Barack Obama… Read More
Report: Venture-backed IPOs and M&A deals slow in Q3 The red-hot market for initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions slowed during the third quarter, perhaps damaged by Facebook’s… Read More
