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From E-Commerce to Web 3.0: Flipkart Sees Valuations Rise, Profitability Still a Challenge
Last year, Chinese e-tail giant Alibaba went public on the New York Stock exchange. Alibaba has been the role model of several e-commerce companies. One of their avid followers, India-based Flipkart, is now eyeing an IPO in the US markets as well. The company is already seeing strong growth in its valuation driven by the growing e-commerce market in India. Gartner expects the Indian e-commerce market to grow 70% this year and Morgan Stanley estimates the Indian market to grow to $137 billion by the year 2020.
From E-Commerce to Web 3.0: Indian E-Commerce Player Snapdeal Eyeing a US IPO
A recent Morgan Stanley report expects the Indian Internet market to grow from $11 billion in 2013 to $137 billion by the year 2020, translating to a 43% annualized growth. Within the industry, e-commerce is expected to grow from $2.9 billion in 2013 to $102 billion by 2020, making India the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market in the world.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Can Kaltura Be A Public Unicorn?
Recent market reports on the open source software market estimate that there was a 140% growth in the interest in purchasing open source software over the last four years. Overall the market saw $2 billion in open source software sales back in 2013. As interest in open source tools increases, companies like Kaltura are seeing tremendous growth making them strong contenders of the Billion Dollar Unicorn club.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Containers Gives Docker Entry into the Club
According to recent research reports, the global open source software market was estimated to be worth $2 billion in 2013. But there is a rapid increase in the adoption of open source tools. Researchers peg the number of open source projects in 2014 to double to nearly 2 million. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Docker is helping grow this interest in open source tools.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: GoFundMe Bootstraps till the Half-Way Point
A recent Massolution report estimates the global crowdfunding segment to grow to $34.4 billion by the year 2015. Crowdfunding is estimated to have grown 167% in 2014 to raise $16.2 billion. Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender GoFundMe is a rising star within the industry.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Blue Apron Simplifies DIY Gourmet Cooking
A recent Business Insider report estimates the food and beverage industry to be worth $600 billion. The market had seen the least disruption due to the growth of the Internet, but all that is changing now. The report estimates that from 2013 through 2018, online grocery sales will grow 21% annually to be worth $18 billion by 2018, compared with the 3% growth in offline grocery sales during the same period. The huge untapped market is being eyed by giants like Amazon and eBay, who are experimenting with same-day delivery options and grocery etailing for their customers. Meanwhile, Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Blue Apron is already making a mark in its own niche in the market.
Carnival in the Cloud: Okta makes Identity and Access Management Simpler
The growing adoption of the cloud by organizations is leading to the evolution of Identity Access Management-as-a-Service aka IDaaS. Gartner estimates the IDaaS market to account for nearly 25% of the overall Identity Access Management market, compared with a modest 4% share back in 2011. Gartner’s multiple reports peg the IDaaS market to be worth nearly $500 million in 2013 and expect it to grow to $1.24 billion by the year 2017. San Francisco-based Okta is a leading provider of IDaaS services and also the “sole leader in the IDaaS Magic Quadrant” as per Gartner.
Real-Time App Monitoring Becomes Easier with Boundary
According to a ResearchandMarkets report, the global application performance management market size is projected to grow from $2.72 billion in 2014 to $ 4.98 billion by 2019. That translates to an annual growth rate of 12.9%. Mountain View-based Boundary is among the leading vendors in this industry.