Six months ago, OpenSea raised at a $1.5B valuation. Today, it just raised at a $13.3B valuation. NFTs are a massive business. Here is OpenSea’s yearly transaction volume. It takes 2.5% of that volume, generating the revenue in the pictured line chart. 2018: $474K2019: $8M2020: $24M2021: $15B We’re only a few days into 2022, but […]
If you had to pick a single pandemic stock, Square might have been it. A relatively counter-intuitive pick given the primacy of its offline card reader business, Square gained about $80B in market cap between February 2020 and February 2021. But where the rise is swift, so tends to be the fall. Square was no […]
PayTM, now IPO-ing, digitized payments for 333M Few apps change how an entire nation behaves. PayTM can claim to have done so by helping India digitize its payments. 11% of India’s 1.38B people have paid with PayTM in the last 12 months. As many people have PayTM wallets as live in America. Behind any such […]
Today, an all star consortium of investors announced a $100M fund dedicated to Solana gaming. This is a big deal. It can kickstart blockchain gaming on Solana significantly. The investors, including FTX and Lightspeed, represent the cream of the crop in crypto investing. Here are three of the top Solana gaming companies to watch. Faraway […]
Nissan Deliveries 2020 – 4.1M. Market Cap – $20B. Kia Deliveries 2020 – 2.6M. Market Cap – $30B. Hyundia Deliveries 2020 – 3.7M. Market Cap – $44B. Rivian Deliveries 2020 – 0. IPO Market Cap – $55B A breakdown of the 4th largest IPO ($RIVN) of the decade: THE RIVIAN STORY FOUNDING. The story begins […]
In 2012, Tim Brown retired after 6 years as a professional soccer player. Today, his company IPOs for over $2B. What a story. Stick around for an IPO valuation analysis at the end. The Allbirds Story Post retirement, Tim went to the LSE. Then he met his co-founder. Joey Zwillinger had graduated from Wharton MBA […]
This founder-CEO left her job as a Managing Director at one of the leading investment banks to start a beauty company. Today, her company IPOs, making her a self-made billionaire. It’s an inspiring story. This rockstar is Falguni Nayar: Her net worth will rise to nearly $3.8 billion pos the IPO of Nykaa, one of the […]
The 3rd largest chip maker in the world IPOs today. No-brainer investment right? Demand keeps outstripping supply; the Economist expects the chip shortage to last well into 2023. But analysts are calling the IPO a “cry for help.” Here’s what you need to know. The Story of GlobalFoundries In 2008, AMD executives announced a new […]
Informatica – $INFA – IPO’d today. What do you need to know about this data-management software provider? Could this be the next cloud play? The Story of Informatica Informatica provides data integration products including data visualisation, data masking and data replica tools. It’s in 5 Gartner magic quadrants. It counts the likes of Unilever, Kroger, […]
This one-time dorm room startup is now set to IPO for over $1B. And it’s not a software company! What do you need to know about $SG now that the Sweetgreen S-1 has dropped? Learn the amazing story of this salad chain, which gets 68% of its revenue from digital channels. The Founding Story In […]