Billion Dollar Unicorns: Stripe Wants to Delay its IPO

At the start of the year, analysts expected Stripe, the online payment processing service provider, to go public. Stripe, however, had denied any such plans despite continuing to add to its leadership portfolio. Given the current conditions though, that IPO listing may not be happening soon.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Segment.io Joins the Club, What Next?

According to Market Research Future, the global customer analytics market is expected to grow 15% annually to $7.3 billion by 2023. Recently, San Francisco-based Segment.io announced its seventh funding round that enrolled it into the Billion Dollar Unicorn club.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Should Box Acquire Canva?

According to a recent report, the global computer graphics design software market is estimated to grow at 6.5% annually to reach $280.15 billion by 2025. While the industry has big names like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop as the leading players, startups like Billion Dollar Unicorn Canva are also making their presence felt.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: HubSpot Acquired 9 Smaller Start-ups

According to a research report by WARC and Moore Stephens, the global MarTech budgets have grown 44% last year to $99.9 billion with about 23% of marketing budgets now spent on MarTech in the UK and North America. Billion Dollar Unicorn HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) continues to see rapid adoption of its services as well.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Ping Identity List or Be Acquired?

According to a Market Research Engine report, the global Identity and Access Management Market is expected to grow 12% over the next few years to $14.5 billion by 2021. Denver, Colorado-based Ping Identity is a leading player in the segment that has had an interesting run so far.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Xero Grows Through International Acquisitions

According to a report published by Transparency Market Research, the global accounting software market is estimated to grow from $5.7 billion in 2017 at nearly 9% annually over the next few years to $11.8 billion by 2026. Xero (ASX:XRO) is a leading player from New Zealand, which is making its presence felt in the industry.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Qualys Acquires 1Mby1M Company Adya

According to a Research and Markets report, the global security and vulnerability management market is expected to grow 9.3% over the next few years to $13.7 billion by 2026. Earlier this week, cloud-based security player Qualys (Nasdaq: QLYS) reported its upbeat fourth quarter results. Qualys also recently announced the acquisition of a 1Mby1M company Adya.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: SurveyMonkey Should Do A Platform Strategy

According to a recent report, the global online survey software market is estimated to have grown 12% annually over the period 2014 to 2018 to $2.8 billion in 2018. The industry is estimated to grow to $5.7 billion by the year 2020. Billion Dollar Unicorn SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK) recently reported its fourth quarter results that

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