Tuesday, September 24, 2013

IPO Hot Zone: Violin and RingCentral part of a 13 firms doing IPO


IPO hot zone: Violin Memory, RingCentral among 13 tech offerings this week


Rocket Fuel executives rang the opening bell on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Tuesday, three days after their stock nearly doubled on its IPO debut. The company went public at $29 a share and was trading as high as $64.23, a new high, on Tuesday.
Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Thirteen tech companies hope to duplicate the IPO magic this week that FireEye and Rocket Fuel made when their stock nearly doubled in their market debut on Friday.
Three of this week's expected offerings involve local players: San Mateo-based RingCentral, Santa Clara-based Violin Memory and San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group.
The latest rush to Wall Street comes after a pair of reports show that the number of IPO filings is rising and one-month returns after companies go public are the highest they have been since the end of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
RingCentral, led by CEO Vlad Shmunis hopes to raise up to about $112 million in its offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which provides cloud-based telecommunications for businesses, posted 2012 revenue which more than doubled in the past three years to $114.5 million. It reported a net loss of about $35.4 million in the most recent year.
The company raised more than $44 million in venture funding since it was founded in 2003. Its backers include Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, DAG Ventures and Cisco Systems.
Violin Memory, led by CEO Donald Basile, said in an SEC filing that it plans to raised more than $200 million. The company, which makes flash array storage systems used in data centers, posted a more than fivefold jump in revenue to $73.8 million between fiscal 2011 and 2013. It net loss in fiscal 2013 grew by a similar multiple to $109.1 million.
Violin Memory raised about $268 million in venture funding since it was founded in 2005. Its backers include Highland Capital Partners, SAP Ventures, Juniper Networks and Toshiba.
Pattern Energy, led by CEO Michael Garland, said in its SEC filing that it hopes to raise up to $386 million in its offering. The company owns and operates eight wind power projects in the US, Canada, and Chile. Its revenue more than doubled between 2010 and 2012 to $114.5 million, when it posted a loss of $13.4 million.
Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.


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