PUBMATIC IPO

PubMatic is an advertising technology firm. It offers cloud infrastructure platform that enables real-time programmatic advertising transactions. Mainly purpose-built advertising database and sell-side delivery infrastructure. PubMatic helps publishers and application developers monetize their ad placement inventory in an efficient manner across different devices and platforms. I met both founders during 2005-2007. CEO Rajeev have deeper […]

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Door Dash IPO

Coming on WED in NYSE Largest food delivery network 50% of USA market Raising $3.1B via 33m shares/IPO 385B outstanding shares including options Market Valuation $37B 3X LYFT and 5X Grubhub Same as Chipotle Revenue growing 225% YoY Not profitable ($149 this year) $534M losses last year 543 million orders in last 9 months Poised […]

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JFROG Valuation Built for failure!

JFROG company that builts tools for Devops going IPO 9/16. “JFrog Artifactory is a universal DevOps solution providing end-to-end automation and management of binaries and artifacts through the application delivery process that improves productivity across your development ecosystem” Price raised $39-41 will open $62-75 (most likely)valuation is Sky high almost 33x-40x revenue @ IPO priceat opening […]

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Race to COVID Vaccine Supply Chain

In planning documents, the CDC described preparations for two Covid vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer. The lists the technical details of the vaccines, including the time between doses and their storage temperatures. The govt. has already advance funded for manufacturing and production. There are extraordinary complexity of distributing vaccines to hundreds of millions of […]

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