Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 10, 2010 1:35 PM
Eyeblaster, which filed for an IPO in October 2008 only to withdraw it three months later citing “market conditions,” is trying to go public again. The online ad campaign management firm notified the SEC today it hopes to raise $115 million by selling stock—the same amount it was hoping to…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 8, 2010 8:42 PM
Motricity increased revenues, narrowed its losses and even generated cash in 2009, according to new documents filed today as part of the company’s IPO ambitions. When the company first filed paperwork in January, it reported results for the first nine months of the year. Today, in an updated registration statement…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 22, 2010 9:50 AM
Online lead generator Reply wants to raise $60 million in an IPO, according to an SEC filing. The startup runs an auction-based online marketplace that lets companies buy information about people who have indicated an interest online in buying a certain product; advertisers can target their lead spending based on…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 11, 2010 10:07 PM
QuinStreet (NSDQ: QNST), the online media and marketing holding company, debuted on Nasdaq this morning, and fell flat in more ways than one: firstly it wanted to issue 10 million shares at $17-$19, but was only able to price at $15. And then through the day, the price only rose…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 10, 2010 10:50 AM
So Gamefly finally does file for an IPO, after flirting for years with a possible sale: The Los Angeles-based videogame rental-by-mail subscription service has filed its S-1, and intends to raise a smallish up-to-$50 million through it. It plans to list on Nasdaq under the symbol “GFLY”, and underwritten by…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 5, 2010 6:40 AM
Adult entertainment company Friendfinder Networks is canceling its IPO. The reason: “based on market conditions, it has chosen not to proceed with its planned initial public offering at this time until market conditions improve.” Translation: appetite for its own IPO was less than lukewarm, and the jittery market conditions is…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 29, 2010 9:31 AM
Clarification: The company now says they are only looking to raise $12 million, with the potential to reach $13.8 million if an over-allotment of shares is exercised. The $64.3 million figure in SEC filing, it says, is “because it’s required under the rules, but there’s really not a scenario to…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 28, 2010 7:40 PM
Buried in Netflix’s earnings call Wednesday were some details about the company’s sale of its stake in set-top maker Roku to Menlo Ventures. Asked about the sale, CEO Reed Hastings said the company “booked a gain pre-tax of about $1.7 million—after tax that translates to $1.035 million” on the deal.…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 27, 2010 8:59 PM
Set-top maker Roku is still raising venture capital cash but it is already talking about an IPO. CEO Anthony Wood tells Bloomberg that the company may go public as soon as 2011. In the meantime, it is in the process of raising a $30 million round from investors, including existing…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 26, 2010 10:40 AM
QuinStreet is shrinking the size of its IPO. The online marketing company now says it expects to raise about $165 million by selling stock to the public, down from the $250 million it initially expected to raise when it filed its S-1 back in November. According to the revised filing…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 26, 2010 4:39 AM
The two major investors in Facebook, speaking today at DLD in Munich, put a line in the sand: read their lips, no IPO for the company in 2010. Both Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner of DST said on stage that they are in no hurry for an…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 24, 2010 3:09 PM
Everyday Health, which owns a portfolio of 25 online health sites, including its flagship, EverydayHealth.com, dieting site SouthBeachDiet.com and RevolutionHealth.com, has filed to raise $100 million in an IPO, according to an SEC filing. The company was known until this month as Waterfront Media—and the filing comes just over a…
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Tricia Duryee
Jan 22, 2010 3:59 PM
Motricity, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company that provides back-end infrastructure to wireless carriers, including web portals, storefront and messaging platforms, has filed documents with the SEC today with the intention raising $250 million in an initial public offering. It will trade under the ticker “MOTR.” The company, which has raised $267…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 11, 2010 4:46 PM
Lulu, the Raleigh, N.C.-based online self-publishing service, is aiming for a $50 million IPO on the Canadian market, according to a report last week from DJN. It has already hired Genuity Capital Markets and CIBC World Markets as the issue’s leading underwriters, the story says, citing sources. The company, founded…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 10, 2010 11:27 PM
Adult entertainment company Friendfinder Networks is finding the going tough in a recessionary market, much like the rest of the industry and has rest its expectations: after filing for an IPO exactly a year ago and hoping to raise $460 million in it, it has now filed an amended S-1…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Dec 22, 2009 12:55 PM
ReachLocal, which helps small businesses advertise online, wants to go public. The company plans to raise about $100 milllion in a stock offering, according to a filing with the SEC. ReachLocal offers a suite of services—including search engine marketing, display advertising and analytics—aimed at small businesses who want to target…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Dec 18, 2009 3:50 PM
Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has been busily adding to its Facebook holdings, but says it won’t use its leverage to push the company toward an IPO. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, DST CEO Yuri Milner said, “Any IPO should be business driven and not liquidity driven as…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Nov 24, 2009 3:29 PM
Facebook has said it is in no rush to file for an IPO, but the company continues to take small steps towards one. The latest: It’s creating a new class of stock which carries additional voting power; the stock will be given to all existing shareholders, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…
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Staci D. Kramer
Nov 23, 2009 6:50 PM
Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the UK.…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 20, 2009 10:15 AM
Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.com and Internet.com, has filed for an IPO to raise as much as $250 million, according to its S1. Last month Quin paid $16 million for Insure.com, and its related media assets, and the month before it…
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