Deals & Moves

Twitter, Inc. priced its IPO at $26.00 per share, selling 70 million shares to raise $1.8 billion, and began trading on the NYSE under ticker TWTR on November 7, 2013.

Criteo S.A. priced its IPO of American Depositary Shares at $31.00 on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRTO, for total proceeds of about $250.6 million.

Rocket Fuel priced its IPO of 4.0 million shares at $29.00 per share (~$116M raised) and began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker FUEL on September 20, 2013.

YuMe, Inc. began trading on the NYSE under ticker YUME on August 7, 2013, selling 5,125,000 shares for approximately $46 million in gross proceeds.

Tremor Video, Inc. sold 7,500,000 shares at $10.00 per share for $75 million in gross proceeds and made its public debut on the NYSE under ticker TRMR on June 27, 2013.

Marin Software priced its IPO of 7,500,000 shares at $14.00 per share (~$105M raised) and began trading on the NYSE under ticker MRIN on March 22, 2013.

Facebook, Inc. went public on May 18, 2012 at $38.00 per share on the Nasdaq under ticker FB, raising about $16 billion in one of the largest U.S. tech IPOs.

Yelp Inc. completed its initial public offering of shares at $15.00 each on the NYSE under ticker YELP, generating gross proceeds of $122.6 million in March 2012.

Brightcove went public on February 17, 2012 via an IPO of 5,000,000 shares at $11.00 per share on the Nasdaq Global Market under ticker BCOV, raising $55 million in gross proceeds.

Zynga Inc. priced its initial public offering of 100,000,000 Class A shares at $10.00 each (about $1 billion raised), listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker ZNGA in December 2011.

Pandora Media priced its IPO at $16.00 per share, offering 14.7 million shares (~$235M raised), and began trading on the NYSE under ticker P on June 15, 2011.

Yandex N.V. raised $1.3 billion in its initial public offering priced at $25.00 per share, beginning trading on the Nasdaq under ticker YNDX on May 24, 2011.

comScore went public via an IPO priced at $16.50 per share, beginning trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under ticker SCOR on June 27, 2007 and raising approximately $73.7 million in net proceeds.

Baidu went public on August 5, 2005 via an IPO of 4,040,402 American depositary shares priced at $27.00 each on the Nasdaq under ticker BIDU, raising roughly $109 million.

Google Inc. began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker GOOG on August 19, 2004 after a Dutch-auction IPO priced at $85.00 per share, raising about $1.67 billion.

Marchex completed its IPO of 4,000,000 shares of Class B common stock at $6.50 per share (~$26M raised), beginning trading on the Nasdaq National Market under ticker MCHX on March 31, 2004.

ValueClick, Inc. completed its initial public offering in March 2000, listing its common stock on the Nasdaq National Market under ticker VCLK.

Avenue A, Inc. went public in February 2000 via an IPO of 6,037,500 shares at $24.00 per share on the Nasdaq National Market under ticker AVEA, raising approximately $132.5 million in net proceeds.

24/7 Media went public in August 1998 via an IPO of 3,250,000 shares at $14.00 each on the Nasdaq National Market under ticker TFSM, raising roughly $45.5 million in gross proceeds.

DoubleClick Inc. priced its IPO of 3.5 million shares at $17.00 on the Nasdaq National Market under ticker DCLK, raising approximately $59.5 million in February 1998.

Yahoo! Inc. held its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, raising about $33.8 million by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each on the Nasdaq under ticker YHOO.

Taboola completed its merger with ION Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, to go public on Nasdaq. The transaction valued the content recommendation platform at approximately $2.6 billion, providing capital for expansion in the native advertising and content discovery market.

Outbrain went public through a SPAC merger with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II, valuing the content discovery platform at approximately $1.25 billion. The public listing positioned Outbrain to compete more effectively with Taboola in the native advertising space.

Instacart went public on Nasdaq with advertising highlighted as a key growth driver, with its advertising business generating $740 million in revenue in 2022. The company's retail media platform, Instacart Ads, has become a crucial monetization channel, demonstrating the value of first-party commerce data in the AdTech ecosystem.