Billion Dollar Unicorns: Zscaler Getting Ready for IPO

According to Gartner, cloud-based security web gateways services are showing rapid growth with a five-year historical compound annual growth rate of 32%, compared to just 5% for on-premise appliances. Billion Dollar Unicorn Zscaler has been named as a leader in the Gartner Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant for the seventh consecutive year.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: HelloFresh Lists Successfully

According to research from Second Measure, the US meal kit market is worth $5 billion and is led by Blue Apron with a 57.5% market share. Early this month, Billion Dollar Unicorn HelloFresh , which has a market share of 28.4%, listed successfully on the Frankfurt exchange. While Blue Apron’s market share is plummeting, HelloFresh

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Microvast Charges into the Club

According to Grand View Research, the global electric vehicle charging infrastructure market was valued at $1.16 billion in 2016. It is expected to gain traction over the next ten years driven by the growing demand for electric vehicles. The Asia Pacific region dominates the market with about 50% of the market share in 2016. Based

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International Focus Paying Off For Salesforce

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) had another great quarter that beat analyst estimates. It is also showing good progress on its focus on the international markets. The only blemish is the miss on the fourth quarter earnings forecast.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Profitable Qualys Hits a New High

According to Gartner, the global cloud-based security services market is estimated to grow 21% this year to $5.9 billion and $9 billion by the year 2020. Cloud-based security and compliance solutions provider and Billion Dollar Unicorn Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) has a 3.1% market share in the Security and Vulnerability Management market, which is led by IBM

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SendGrid has a Successful IPO

According to a 2017 Radicati Group report, an estimated 125 billion commercial emails are sent every day, and the number of email users is expected to grow from 3.7 billion in 2017 to 4.1 billion by 2021. Email delivery and performance platform SendGrid went public last week on the New York Stock Exchange under the

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Indian Small Town Marketplace ShopClues Looks Shaky

Currently, the Indian e-commerce market is primarily a two-horse race between Flipkart and Amazon, especially in the larger cities. As Internet penetration is getting better across the country, they have started expanding to small towns, which has been the niche of Billion Dollar Unicorn ShopClues.

Flipkart Needs To Emphasize Private Label Strategy

According to RedSeer, Indian e-tailers generated record sales of $3.2 billion during the recent festival sale season, 45% higher than the $2.2 billion in last year’s festival season. It was fuelled by an estimated expense of $370-$400 million compared to $200-$250 million last year, as well as better Internet penetration. Although Amazon is rapidly closing

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