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2016 IPO Prospects: DocuSign Looks Ready to Sign Up
According to the global Digital Transaction Management (DTM) report by Aragon Research, 70% of large companies globally are working toward implementing DTM as a business imperative by the end of 2016. The DTM market is estimated to grow to $30 billion by 2020.
2016 IPO Prospects: Overfunded Domo Looks Promising
According to Gartner, there is a shift in the BI market away from IT-developed reporting solutions toward business user-led analytics solutions. Gartner predicts that by 2017, most business users and analysts in organizations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis. Domo has made it to the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club riding
2016 IPO Prospects: Is Uber Ready to Ride the Stock Market?
If there is one company that has surprised everyone with its meteoric valuation rise, it is San Francisco’s Uber. The ride-sharing app provider has defied all controversies and sane judgements about sustainable valuations in the past year. The market is eagerly waiting for it to go public, but till last year with private funding coming
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Docker Sustain?
According to recent research reports, the global open source software market was estimated to be worth $2 billion in 2013. Containers are the big rage in the market with tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, EMC, and Cisco supporting them. Docker is the biggest startup in containers that has made it to the Billion Dollar Club
From Unicorn to Unicorpse: Gilt Gets Acquired
A few years ago, the flash and daily deals market was the rage and we saw several deals companies like Groupon and Zulily waltz into the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club, riding high on its hype. But the fad has passed and has left in its wake some unicorpses including LivingSocial. Gilt Groupe, the pioneer of flash deals in
Oracle Focuses Cloud Effort on MarTech
According to Gartner, marketing technology is one of the fastest growing areas of the $1 trillion enterprise software market and CMOs are expected to spend more than CIOs by 2017. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has started the new year with the announcement of its plans to acquire web tracking company AddThis. AddThis will become a part
2016 IPO Prospects: Avant Will Have to Wait and Watch
The online lending sector may have witnessed intensified scrutiny in the recent past due to unfavorable publicity in the San Bernardino attacks and other legal cases questioning the regulations imposed on the sector. But that does not take away from the fact that analysts expect the volume of loans extended by marketplace lenders to grow
2016 IPO Prospects: Automattic Needs to Justify Valuation
According to a W3Techs survey conducted in November last year, 25% of the websites globally use WordPress as their content management system. We are avid users of WordPress and love the product. The open-source platfrom’s market share has increased from 13% back in 2011 to 23.3% by January 2015 before ending the year with 25.6%