Amit Chowdhry | January 14, 2012 | 478 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Allen & Company, AVG, JMP Securities, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley

AVG, the software company that was founded in 1991 and is known for their anti-virus software, has announced that they have filed a Registration Statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. SEC in connection with a proposed IPO of their ordinary shares. AVG will sell on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol “AVG.” Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs will be running the books on the IPO. Co-managers for the IPO include Allen & Company and JMP Securities.
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.

Amit Chowdhry | March 21, 2011 | 467 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under AVG, AVG Technologies, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Morgan Stanley

AVG Technologies has entered a credit agreement with JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. The company has secured a five-year term loan for $235 million in their first capital markets transaction. AVG said that the financing will give them resources to realize strategic growth opportunities. AVG was founded in 1991 and their anti-virus software is used by over 110 million consumers and small businesses. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | February 20, 2011 | 863 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Austin Ventures, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman-Sachs, HomeAway, Institutional Venture Partners, IVP, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Morgan Stanley, Redpoint Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures

HomeAway.com is in talks with several banks about a $300 million IPO according to BusinessWeek sources. The banks that HomeAway is talking to include Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Goldman Sachs.

Amit Chowdhry | September 12, 2010 | 869 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., UBS, UBS Investment Bank

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) may soon start letting employees use the iPhone for corporate e-mail instead of BlackBerry devices manufactured by Research In Motion. According to a source with Bloomberg, JPMorgan is testing the iPhone device and smartphones that run on Android. JPMorgan has about 220,000 employees across the globe.

Amit Chowdhry | November 16, 2009 | 1,888 views | 2 Comments
Categorized under David Lublin, Eva Longoria, Facebook, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Nancy Lublin



Facebook and JP Morgan Chase are partnering on a charity initiative that will allow any of the 300 million Facebook users to donate across 500,000 local charities.
Facebook users vote for a charity of their choice and the number one choice will receive $1 million. The five runner ups will receive $100,000 and 100 finalists will receive $25,000 each. A special advisory board will be formed that includes actress Eva Longoria, former pro basketball player David Robinson, and Do Something founder Nancy Lublin.
Amit Chowdhry | September 30, 2009 | 2,125 views | 6 Comments
Categorized under America Online, AOL, Imran Khan, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Pali Capital, Rich Greenfield

JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan estimates that AOL is worth $4.2 billion. As you know, AOL is preparing to spin off from parent company Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX). When Google bought a 5% stake in AOL back in 2005, the valuation of AOL was estimated to be about $5.5 billion.
To make Khan’s estimates even credible, Rich Greenfield of Pali Capital pegged AOL’s valuation to be around $4 billion also. The valuation is based on the following estimates by JP Morgan.

As AOL prepares to spin off from AOL, they have been making a few managerial changes. The company dismissed the COO and SVP earlier this month and also hired Brad Garlinghouse from Yahoo!
Amit Chowdhry | September 28, 2009 | 6,549 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Bank of America, Citigroup, Citigroup Inc., Fred Chang, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Merrill Lynch, NewEgg.com, Tally C. Liu

NewEgg.com is an online retail company that sells electronics such as digital cameras, cell phones, and laptops. The company plans to file for an IPO and raised roughly $175 million in the process. NewEgg.com started in 2001 and made about $2.2 billion in revenues last year. Insight Venture Partners invested $20 million in NewEgg.com around 2005. Insight Venture Partners has a 12.7% stake in NewEgg.
Newegg.com Inc. is based in City of Industry, California. Newegg was founded by Fred Chang and the company is run by CEO Tally C. Liu. When NewEgg.com was founded, it was a subsidiary of ABS Computer Technologies Inc. NewEgg has about 1,500 employees. The funds raised will be used to fund operations expansion in Canada and China. The company has even been profitable since they started in 2001. The IPO is being managed by JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Citi.