Billion Dollar Unicorns: Delivery Hero Goes Public Albeit Huge Losses

According to a ResearchandMarkets report published earlier this year, the global online food delivery and takeaway market is estimated to grow 15.25% annually over the five-year period through 2021. The growth is expected to be driven by the increased adoption of online food ordering services. Recently, industry veteran and Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Delivery Hero went public. Initial results suggest that the stock market is happy with the listing.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Valuation Without Revenue Nextdoor Trying to Monetize

Facebook’s social networking skills have inspired a few others to set up their own networking channels. For instance, LinkedIn established a professional focused networking service. A smaller organization is San Francisco-based Nextdoor, which has established a social network based on neighborhoods. Nextdoor has managed to attain a Billion Dollar Unicorn status, but its financials are still a matter of concern.

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India’s Local Search Engine Justdial Needs to Dial Up Innovation

India is estimated to have about 51 million small and medium businesses, out of which only 32% are online. Local business listing service Justdial (NSE: JUSTDIAL) has long benefited from the unorganized nature of the Indian business world. >>>

From Unicorn to Unicorpse: Rocket Fuel Bids Adieu

According to a recent report by Interactive Advertising Bureau, digital ad spending accounted for $17.6 billion during the third quarter of 2016, a robust 20% growth over the year. Google and Facebook accounted for 99% of the growth in the quarter, with Google raking in 54% of the growth, Facebook 45% and the remaining 1% being left for the rest of the world. Clearly smaller ad-tech firms are struggling.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Pinterest Delays its IPO Plans

Many believed that content discovery app, Pinterest, was looking to go public soon. But recent reports reveal that Pinterest may have delayed its IPO plans to the next year, at least. Meanwhile, the company’s Billion Dollar Unicorn status continues to thrive.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Rubrik Gears up to go Public

A Gartner report published last year estimates the backup and recovery software market as the largest segment of the overall storage software market. The backup and recovery software market was estimated to be a $5.7 billion industry in 2015, recording a growth of 5.5% over the year. Palo Alto-based Rubrik is a Billion Dollar Unicorn club member in the industry.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Yext Makes it to the Club and on the Exchange

An emarketer report published earlier this year estimates the US digital ad spending to grow from $83 billion in 2017 to $129.23 billion in 2021. Mobile is expected to remain the biggest driver of digital’s growth in the current year. The researcher expects mobile ad spending to surpass TV ad spending in the next two years. Recently, digital advertising start-up Yext, went public, confirming its Billion Dollar Unicorn  status.

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Indian Online Fashion Retailer LimeRoad Focuses on SMB

According to Grant Thornton India, the Indian fashion retail industry has evolved rapidly over the past decade propelled by investments to the tune of $13 billion flowing into the sector. Of this, $10 billion were PE/VC investments. Indian fashion retail industry is worth about $70 billion and online fashion e-commerce, according to Google India, is expected to grow to $35 billion by 2020 or around 35% of e-commerce. LimeRoad is an Indian online fashion retailer with a unique social discovery platform that is trying to make it big. >>>

MadeiraMadeira Makes its Mark from a Small Town in Brazil

According to a recent report, the Brazilian e-Commerce segment grew 7.4% last year to $13.4 billion. The market is projected to grow to $15.1 billion this year. The growth in the industry is driven by a 22% increase in the number of consumers making at least one virtual purchase last year. Brazil is the largest Internet market in Latin America and the fourth largest Internet market in the world in terms of the number Internet users. Analysts estimate it had nearly 122 million Internet users as of last year. Currently, Brazil is going through a crisis – both economic and political. Despite the crisis, some companies, like MadeiraMadeira, are doing robust business.

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The Mattress Industry has Woken up to e-Commerce

Till a few years ago, no one would have thought that the hottest trend in e-commerce would be to buy mattresses online. People wanted to be able to feel the comfort of a mattress before they purchased it. But as e-commerce sweeps through our lives, some of these formerly-unthinkable categories are also becoming Internet friendly. The US mattress market is estimated to be a $15 billion industry. Till recently, online sales accounted for a mere 5% of the total sales in the industry, but analysts estimate that this year online mattress sales could account for more than 10% of the market.

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