Tuesday, June 28, 2011

2011-06-28: AWAY, HomeAway, Inc.

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: AWAY, HomeAway, Inc.
IPO date: 2011-06-28
Offer price/share: $27 x 8M = $216M

Underwriters
Book Runner: Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, ,
Co Manager: Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, Pacific Crest, , , ,

Business
Industry: Comp-Internet-Content/Porta
Full time Employee: 842
Founded: 2004

Operates the world's largest online marketplace for vacation rentals



Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=AWAY

Thursday, June 23, 2011

2011-06-23: KIOR, KiOR

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: KIOR, KiOR
IPO date: 2011-06-23
Offer price/share: $15 x 10M = $150M

Underwriters
Book Runner: Credit Suisse, UBS Investment Bank, Goldman, Sachs & Co., , ,
Co Manager: Piper Jaffray, Citi, Deutsche Bank Securities, , ,

Business
Industry: Energy-Alternatives
Full time Employee: 107
Founded: 2007

Developing a platform to convert non-food biomass into fuel blendstocks



Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=KIOR

Thursday, June 16, 2011

2011-06-16: RATE, Bankrate, Inc.

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: RATE, Bankrate, Inc.
IPO date: 2011-06-16
Offer price/share: $15 x 20M = $300M

Underwriters
Joint Book Runner: Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, J.P. Morgan, ,
Co Manager: Allen & Company, Credit Suisse, Stephens Inc., RBC Capital Markets, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel,

Business
Sector: Technology
Industry: Internet Information Providers
Full Time Employees: 378
Founded: 1976

Leading publisher, aggregator and distributor of online personal finance content

Bankrate, Inc. offers online financial data feed management services. The company’s suite provides information on financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used auto loans, money market accounts and CDs, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans, and online banking fees. Additionally, it offers tools and information via a suite of products and services that helps consumers in financial decisions; offers insurance rates for auto, home, life, health, and long term care; provides information and rates for title, inspection escrow, hazard, and appraisal fees; offers consumer and business credit cards via Internet; provides access to mortgage and financing calculators to help consumers with their home buying and home financing needs; publishes financial rates and information connecting consumers with lenders online; and provides rate information on savings products, such as certificates of deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts. Bankrate, Inc., was formerly known as ilife.com Inc., and changed its name to Bankrate, Inc. in September, 2000. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in North Palm Beach, Florida with additional offices in New York, Illinois, and California.

Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=RATE

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

2011-06-14: P, Pandora Media

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: P, Pandora Media
IPO date: 2011-06-14
Offer price/share: $16 x 14.7M = $235.2M

Underwriters
Joint Book Runner: Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citi, , ,
Co Manager: William Blair, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, Wells Fargo Securities, , ,

Business
Sector: ?
Industry: ?
Full Time Employees: 295
Founded: 2000

Leading Internet radio company with 94 million registered users

Pandora Media, Inc. operates as an Internet radio company in the United States. It provides its radio service to traditional computers, Android phones, Blackberry phones, and the iPhone. The company allows listeners to seed personalized stations with artists, composers, songs, and genres or choose stations organized by genre, as well as enables listeners to create up to 100 personalized stations and use combination feature to listen to two or more of their stations at one time. It also offers display advertising, audio advertising, video advertising, and mobile advertising products. The company was formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies Incorporated and changed its name to Pandora Media, Inc. in July 2005. Pandora Media, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California

Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=P

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

2011-06-08: TAOM, Taomee Holdings

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: TAOM, Taomee Holdings
IPO date: 2011-06-08
Offer price/share: $9 x 7.2M = $64.8M

Underwriters
Joint Book Runner: Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities
Co Manager: Oppenheimer & Co., Pacific Crest, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, CICC

Business
Sector: Services
Industry: Business Services
Full Time Employees: 467
Founded: 2007

The largest online entertainment platform for children in China

Taomee Holdings Ltd. together with its subsidiaries, operates as a children’s entertainment and media company in the People’s Republic of China. It operates through two segments, Online Business and Offline Business. The Online Business segment engages in developing and operating online virtual worlds and providing other online products and services. This segment offers www.61.com, an online community that offers interactive virtual worlds for children; Taomee Bus, a social network service for information exchange and entertainment among children; and third-party hosted games. The Offline Business segment focuses on merchandise licensing, publishing, and the development of media and entertainment products, such as animated television series, films, and live performance. This segment engages in the development and popularization of children’s books and magazines; and licensing of franchises to consumer goods makers in categories, such as apparel, toys, accessories, stationery, consumer electronics, and food and beverages. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China

Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=TAOM

2011-06-08: FIO, Fusion-io

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IPO Date & Price
Symbol: FIO, Fusion-io
IPO date: 2011-06-08
Offer price/share: $19 x 12.3M = $233.7M

Underwriters
Joint Book Runner: Goldman, Sachs & Co, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse

Business
Sector: Technology
Industry: Data Storage Devices
Full Time Employees: 395
Founded: 2005

Offers a next generation storage memory platform that boosts data access speeds

Fusion-io, Inc. focuses on the development, marketing, and sale of storage memory platforms for data decentralization. The company’s platform enhances the processing capabilities within a datacenter by relocating process-critical or active data from centralized storage to the server where it is being processed. Its storage memory platform includes ioMemory hardware, VSL virtualization software, directCache automated data-tiering software, and ioSphere platform management software. The company sells its products through its direct sales force, original equipment manufacturers, resellers, and other channel partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and Canada. The company was formerly known as Canvas Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Fusion-io, Inc. in June 2010. Fusion-io, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=FIO