eCommerce/Retail

Upstart Holdings, an AI-driven lending platform, launched its IPO at $20.00 per share on the NASDAQ at an approximate valuation of $1.5B. On the first day of trading, Upstart’s stock increased by 47% from the IPO price to $29.47 per share. [more]

Last month, Hyundai Motor Group, a South Korean multinational conglomerate, announced an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank. [more]

Organic Garage’s FQ3/2021 revenue was $6.92 million, an increase of 21.6% year-over-year. Gross Profits remains steady above 30%. With improved revenue and previous cost-cutting measures, EBITDA was substantially higher at $0.69 million. [more]

ContextLogic, the parent company of Wish, a global ecommerce platform, recently opened on the NASDAQ at $22.76 per share, 5% below its IPO price. Wish’s IPO was priced at $24.00 per share, which provided gross proceeds of $1.1B at an approximate valuation of $17B. [more]

This week, Airbnb, a U.S. technology company with a home rental platform, IPO’d on the NASDAQ under the ticker “ABNB”. Airbnb recently raised its IPO offering price to $68 per share, valuing Airbnb as much as $50 billion. [more]

Salesforce, a leading CRM platform, announced the acquisition of Slack, an enterprise communications platform. The transaction provided Slack with an enterprise value of $28 billion and an EV/Revenue of 32x based on Slack’s forecasted revenue for 2021. [more]

Peak’s revenue in Q3/2020 doubles to $15.1M compared to $7.3M in Q2/2020. Revenue for the quarter was 35% higher than our estimate of $11.2M and illustrates the adoption of Peak’s solutions in the marketplace. [more]

Advertising revenue recovered in the quarter as many customers renewed previously paused campaigns and started to spend on new campaigns. Q3/2020 revenue increased 15% year-over-year. Even during the current health crisis, EQ added 33 new clients so far in 2020. [more]