2016 IPO Prospects: Nutanix Files for IPO

According to Gartner, the Infrastructure as a Service market is expected to grow 38.4% in 2016 to reach $22.4 billion. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member and hyperconverged storage provider Nutanix has recently filed to go public with plans to raise $200 million. 

2016 IPO Prospects: Palantir Wants to Stay Private

A MarketsandMarkets report estimates the advanced analytics market to be worth $7.04 billion in 2014. The  market is expected to grow 33% annually to $29.53 billion by the year 2019. The advanced analytics market includes analysis of all kinds of data using sophisticated quantitative methods such as statistics, predictive and descriptive data mining, visualization, and

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2016 IPO Prospects: Okta Prepares to Reveal Public Identity

According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market is estimated to grow 15% annually over the period 2014 through 2019 to be worth $18.30 billion in 2019. North America is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution but emerging economies of Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and

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2016 IPO Prospects: InsideSales.com Appears Ready to List

According to a 2014 study by InsideSales.com on sales acceleration technology, the US market is estimated to grow from $12.8 billion in 2014 to more than $30 billion by 2017. The report estimates the market to have grown 40% in 2015. According to another study on the European market, European businesses are spending nearly $6,590 per

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2016 IPO Prospects: Illumio Rides On Security Trend

According to a report by research firm IHS, the global network security appliance and software market was trending at $8 billion annual run rate as of 2015. The analyst expects the market size for data center and carrier appliances and virtual security appliances to grow 42% over the period 2015 through 2019. Here is an interesting

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2016 IPO Prospects: Houzz May Unveil The Curtains

An IBISWorld report had pegged the US interior design market to be worth $12 billion in 2015. Overall, the home improvement market is expected to be worth about $350 billion-$500 billion, growing 6% annually. According to a State of the Industry survey published by online vendor Houzz, more than half the interior decorating businesses expect revenues to

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2016 IPO Prospects: Overfunded Domo Looks Promising

According to Gartner, there is a shift in the BI market away from IT-developed reporting solutions toward business user-led analytics solutions. Gartner predicts that by 2017, most business users and analysts in organizations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis. Domo has made it to the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club riding

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2016 IPO Prospects: Is Uber Ready to Ride the Stock Market?

If there is one company that has surprised everyone with its meteoric valuation rise, it is San Francisco’s Uber. The ride-sharing app provider has defied all controversies and sane judgements about sustainable valuations in the past year. The market is eagerly waiting for it to go public, but till last year with private funding coming

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