Amit Chowdhry | January 27, 2012 | 572 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Facebook, Goldman-Sachs, Morgan Stanley

Facebook is expected to file papers for an IPO next week on Wednesday. The IPO is expected to value the company at between $75 and $100 billion. Morgan Stanley is expected to close the deal for underwriting the IPO. Goldman Sachs is also expected to play a large role in the deal. Other executives are saying considering filing a few weeks from now.

Amit Chowdhry | December 19, 2011 | 275 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Glam Media, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Morgan Stanley

Glam Media is expected to have an IPO in either the third or fourth quarter of 2012. The company is currently talking to bankers such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead the IPO. Glam Media is expected to top 206 million unique visitors per month across all of their properties. It is currently a comScore Top 10 U.S. Web Property. Glam is rumored to be valued at $950 million after acquiring Ning for about $200 million. [BusinessInsider]
Amit Chowdhry | December 7, 2011 | 319 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Benchmark Capital, Garrett Camp, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Jeff Bezos, Menlo Ventures, Travis Kalanick, Uber

Uber is a private car service company that has raised $32 million in Series B funding from Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Jeff Bezos. Previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated in this round.

Amit Chowdhry | November 18, 2011 | 447 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Citigroup, Citigroup Inc., Elevation Partners, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Jefferies & Company, Jeremy Stoppelman, Max Levchin, Yelp

Yelp is a local business review website that has filed for a $100 million IPO. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Jefferies are working as the lead underwriters. However the San Francisco based company has not selected an exchange to be traded on. Yelp is using multiple classes of shares for the public offering.

Amit Chowdhry | August 15, 2011 | 589 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Zynga

Social gaming development company Zynga Inc. has raised a $1 billion line of credit in July from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and several other banks according to a regulatory filing. Zynga did not indicate whether the stock market conditions would affect an IPO. Zynga’s amended S-1 document for the IPO also had disclosed how Zynga valued themselves in the past before the stock market fluctuations. This past March, Zynga indicated that they were worth $11.15 billion. Another third party valuation had indicated that Zynga’s value was less than half at $4.98 billion.

Amit Chowdhry | June 5, 2011 | 648 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Zynga

Social gaming company Zynga Inc. is in talks with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) to lead their initial public offering. Goldman is also expected to provide Zynga to provide a credit line of over $1 billion. This funding will be used to help make acquisitions. Zynga has about 242.1 million monthly active users on Facebook. Some of their most popular games include FarmVille, CityVille, and Texas HoldEm Poker.
Amit Chowdhry | May 24, 2011 | 806 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Zynga

Social gaming company Zynga is preparing to file for an IPO according to sources with AllThingsD. A filing with the SEC is expected to happen sometime next week. Based on Zynga’s last round of funding, the company has a valuation of $10 billion. Zynga has about 250 million people actively playing their games every month. Zynga supposedly made about $400 million profit last year on around $850 million in revenue. Today Zynga has about 1,500 full-time employees across 13 offices in 6 countries. Goldman Sachs is believed to be one of the bankers in the Zynga deal. [AllThingsD]
Amit Chowdhry | April 15, 2011 | 1,071 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, Groupon, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Morgan Stanley

Groupon Inc. has hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriters for an IPO that they are planning for later this year according to sources with The Wall Street Journal. Groupon is expected to be valued at between $15 and $20 billion when the company goes IPO. JP Morgan Chase & Co. is expected to be a co-manager for the IPO according to the same sources.
