Billion Dollar Unicorns: Taboola and Outbrain Exploring a Merger

According to a research report by PQ Media, the global content marketing market size is estimated to grow to $313 billion by 2019 from $200 billion in 2016. Within the space, there are two key players who dominate the market – Taboola and Outbrain. Once potential members of the Billion Dollar Unicorn club, the two companies are now looking to merge.

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BlackLine Continues to Soar Driven by Strong Leadership

If there is one company that has made the process of a successful listing on the stock exchange look easy, it is Los Angeles-based BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL). BlackLine went public last October despite the weak IPO market and has sailed smoothly ever since. It shows how the market still values a good business model coupled with good finance governance. BlackLine was recently awarded the IPO of the Year Award by ACG LA.

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Indian Food Delivery Startup Swiggy Enters the Overfunded Club

According to Inc42, of the 105 foodtech startups launched in India, only 58 were active in 2016. Once considered attractive by investors, the market is overcrowded, overfunded, and plagued by price wars as well as weak logistics and delivery infrastructure. Swiggy is a recent entry to this overfunded club. >>>

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Toutiao Snags a Big Round, But Growth and Revenues Remain Tricky

Earlier this quarter, Chinese news aggregating site Toutiao raised a whopping $1 billion for its expansion. The round valued the company at nearly twenty times the valuation that it had secured two years ago – making its position secure in the Billion Dollar Unicorn club.

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Oracle Soaring on Cloud

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has finally achieved a major milestone in its transition to the cloud. Its cloud business revenue has finally overtaken its new software license revenue, which justifies its move to the cloud. >>>

Adobe Builds on Creative Cloud to Scale Life-High Levels

Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) is one company that has successfully reinvented itself as a cloud-based service provider from a license-based software company. Each quarter, it keeps surprising the market with its stellar performance. Earlier this week, it reported its second quarter results, that helped send its stock to a lifetime high.

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2017 IPO Prospects: Apttus Claims it is Halfway Ready to List

According to Gartner, the Configure Price Quote (CPQ) application suites market was worth $570 million in 2015, out of which cloud-based CPQ accounted for $157 million. The overall CPQ market is expected to grow 20% annually through the period 2020, driven by the growth in cloud-based solutions. San Mateo-based Apttus is a leading cloud-based service provider that is rumored to be preparing to go public.

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Mu Sigma, India’s First Profitable Unicorn: IPO Soon?

According to Nasscom, India’s analytics industry is estimated to be around $2 billion and is expected to grow ten-fold to $20 billion by 2025. Billion Dollar Unicorn Mu Sigma is the first among the Indian Unicorns to deliver consistent profits over the years.

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Egnyte Achieves Profitability, But Growth is Elusive

According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the enterprise collaboration market is estimated to grow from $3.65 billion in 2015 to $8.26 billion by 2020 at 17.7% annually. Enterprise collaboration tools market includes players such as Egnyte that has become so much more than the document sharing company it started as.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Bill.com Has Scaled Quietly

I have known serial entrepreneur René Lacerte for years. He started Cashview, which renamed itself to Bill.com, and has grown in leaps and bounds.

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