Magnite

Magnite is a leading Supply side platform (SSP) in the world. It works with ad agencies and demand side platform (DSPs) (largely with TTD) to fill the ad publishing space for brands that DSPs and ad agencies bring. The company is formed as a byproduct of the merger between Rubicon Project and Telaria which are […]

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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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Airbnb IPO

Ticker ABNB Market debut on Dec 10th (Nasdaq) Raised the price from $44-$50 to $56-$60 Selling $3.1B stock Market valuation $42B 5.6m listings in 100,000 cities Half of the revenue is outside USA Millennials are the bulk of its business Average is $130 per night Risk1: pandemic and risk averse travelers Risk 2: competes against […]

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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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Zen Desk. Zen for your portfolio?

Zen Desk (Zen) is a software-application company that provides solutions, sales, CRM, customer support SaaS Zen competes in a crowded market against a behemoth like Salesforce, Hubspot, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. Company has been growing Revenue at 31% y/oy and projected to grow at a high rate for the next 5 years Zen Desk started […]

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