The news that likely sent shockwaves through unicorn land centered around AppDynamics, which, just days ahead of going public, was bought by Cisco for $3.7 billion. The bonus was swift and lucrative for private investors, as it represented a doubling over the market cap that...
It’s been rather quiet on the unicorn front in past weeks, but some activity of note more recently did extend across mergers, acquisitions and even a downround. The keystone event of the last few days included the news that Cisco agreed to buy AppDynamics for...
Will 2017 mark a steady drum of hoofprints from unicorns coming public? 2016 is already in the rearview mirror, with a somnolent showing, as the 105 IPOs seen last year (not all of them unicorns, of course) were down nearly 40 percent from 2015’s levels. The...
Unicorns had some fluttering of wings into the end of 2016, more a soft rustling than might be termed full flight. What’s the one thing unicorn watchers watch for the most? IPOs, of course. And there was indeed an IPO filing this past week. AppDynamics,...
April 07, 2017
IPOs may be back for tech and for unicorns. As of this writing on Friday (April 7), Okta looked poised to make gains out of the gate on Friday, with 11 million shares for sale in an offering that had been slated to raise nearly $190 million for the enterprise software firm. And even as […]
February 03, 2017
The news that likely sent shockwaves through unicorn land centered around AppDynamics, which, just days ahead of going public, was bought by Cisco for $3.7 billion. The bonus was swift...
January 27, 2017
It’s been rather quiet on the unicorn front in past weeks, but some activity of note more recently did extend across mergers, acquisitions and even a downround. The keystone event...
January 13, 2017
Will 2017 mark a steady drum of hoofprints from unicorns coming public? 2016 is already in the rearview mirror, with a somnolent showing, as the 105 IPOs seen last year (not...
