2017 IPO Prospects: Instacart Getting Ready to Deliver on the Stock Exchange

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According to a recent report by Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen, the online grocery shopping market is expected to grow five-fold over the next decade. American consumers will spend more than $100 billion on food-at-home items by 2025 compared with $20.5 billion in 2016. The number of shoppers buying groceries online has already increased from 19% in 2014 to nearly a quarter as of 2016. It is expected that by 2025, more than 70% consumers will be shopping for groceries online. The industry has attracted the likes of Amazon and Google, both of which have their versions of grocery shopping services. Then, there are others like San Francisco-based Instacart that focuses only on this market. After Snap’s successful recent IPO, analysts believe that Instacart may now be next on the table.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Airbnb is in no Rush to IPO

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Alteryx has a Successful IPO

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2017 IPO Prospects: Okta Files in Red Hot Identity Management Sector

A Markets and Markets report published earlier last year estimates the Identity and Access Management Market to grow 13% annually over the next five years to be worth $14.82 billion by 2021. The market was estimated to be worth $8.1 billion in 2016. The impressive growth rate has helped companies like San Francisco-based Okta deliver strong revenue growth. The company recently filed to go public.

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Oracle Takes On AWS Next

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2017 IPO Prospects: Zuora Thinks it Will be a Good Time for an IPO

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Competition Heating up in Online Travel

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2017 IPO Prospects: Elevate Credit may Finally List this Year

A report published last year estimated the global consumer lending balances outstanding at the end of 2015 at $42.3 trillion, recording a growth of 3.3% since 2011. Within the sector, residential mortgage accounted for $32.9 trillion and non-mortgage consumer lending accounted for $7.5 trillion, excluding credit card loans and credit card balances of $1.8 trillion. Over the past few years, this non-mortgage lending industry has seen the emergence of newer, non-traditional banking institutions such as Lending Club, OnDeck, Prosper, and Elevate Credit. Elevate Credit is now looking to list on the stock market after delaying those plans for over two years.
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Billion Dollar Unicorns: MuleSoft Delivers Successful IPO

After years of mulling over the idea of going public, San Francisco-based Billion Dollar Unicorn player MuleSoft finally listed this month. It became the first enterprise software company to list this year and initial market reports show that the stock is holding up well.

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