19 Bay Area IPOs to Watch

 

19 Bay Area IPOs to watch for in 2013

Silicon Valley Business Journal by Cromwell Schubarth, Senior Technology Reporter

Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 10:09am PST - Last Modified: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 3:00am PST

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Spencer Brown / SFBT File 2010

Los Altos-based Box continued to grow rapidly in 2011, doubling its work force to 650 and pulling in $125 million in new funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion. So why would co-founders Dylan Smith, left, and Aaron Levie go public in 2013? Because competition has never been fiercer in the collaboration and storage business.

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Cromwell Schubarth

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Figuring out who was getting ready to go public used to be easier. Just watch for the regulatory filings.
But now companies are allowed to keep their plans in stealth mode, letting them test the waters and withdraw quietly if the climate is chilly.
So there is a certain amount of guesswork involved in projecting who will make their stock market debut in 2013, especially in light of what happened after Facebook took the dive last year, literally.
What looked to be shaping up as a record year turned out to have the lowest number of global IPOs since 2008. Offerings in the U.S. raised $41 billion, about the same as the year before 2011, with Facebook pulling in $16 billion of that.
But a number of Bay Area companies have IPO filings that are public and more have made it clear that they are on track to go public eventually, if they don't get acquired first.
So here are the local companies figured most likely to show up on in one of those opening bell shots at Nasdaq or the NYSE before this year's out.
Click through the photo gallery to see who they are.
Which company do you think has the best chance at going public this year? Which company did we leave off the list? Let us know here.

Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.