Startups Weekly - The 2020 IPO Pipeline

Saturday, December 21, 2019 • By Kate Clark

Hello again

Welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week's noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today's topic, let's catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about the defining moments of VC in 2019. Before that, I noted some thoughts on U.S. VC activity in Europe.

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The 2020 Tech IPO Pipeline

Thanks to our friends at CB Insights we have a pretty good idea of who’s on deck for an initial public offering in 2020. If you remember, last year, I noted some 2019 IPO predictions. Four out of five of those companies did indeed go public in 2019, including Peloton, Zoom and Medallia. Rubrik was the only business to seemingly delay its IPO, but hey, here’s to a 2020 exit.

This year, CB Insights says GitLab, Snowflake, Credit Karma, Unity and Procore are most likely to transition from the private markets to Wall Street. CB Insights, which calls itself a tech market intelligence platform, also predicts Asana, Airbnb (obviously), Squarespace, Roblox, Databricks, Freshworks, Wish, Blend, DoorDash, Fanatics, StockX and more will all take steps toward becoming a public company. Dive deeper into the report here and read my colleague Alex Wilhelm’s dive into the upward swing in the amount of capital that tech companies raise before they go public.

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