Instacart in Q4 2022, TripActions in Q2 2023? Let’s do this.
The IPO market is still frozen like a Nordic lake with fishermen’s cottages, but there are signs that a thaw is now in sight.
News from Insider indicates that TripActions, a unicorn in the business travel and expenses category, has filed confidential filings to seek an IPO. According to the publication, the company is targeting a public debut in Q2 2023 at a price point of around $12 billion. (Bloomberg’s Katie Roof, a former TechCruncher, first reported that TripActions is eyeing an IPO).
The news warmed our hearts as we heartily missed S-1 filings, a particular breed of startup news we gloated in during the 2021 boom but were forced to live this year without falling public market prices and lackluster returns Some previous debuts closed the IPO window a few quarters ago.
Mix in the fact that we’re — still — expecting an Instacart S-1 filing and maybe even a debut sometime in late 2022, we now have not just two IPOs on our agenda, but two potential Decacorn IPOs. These will be big, noisy, large-scale deals that will provide valuable data on market appetite for technology stocks in general, and shed light on the relative value of two key startup sectors. Hell yeah, we’re excited. Nothing like some new data to fill in the gaps in our understanding of today’s market.
Today we will discuss what we hope to learn from each IPO filing and which startups will be impacted by those specific data points.
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Keep in mind that Instacart had a tremendous pandemic run, growing rapidly before swapping CEOs, accelerating growth again, and sticking to its IPO timing guns.
TripActions is different. The pandemic didn’t immediately help his business — in fact, it messed it up a bit. But the company has shaken up its model, broadening its product mix in the process, and now that business travel is returning, it seems pleased enough with its results that an IPO is on the cards.
S-1 hopes, IPO dreams
Starting with Instacart because it’s ground we’ve trodden before, we know the company’s revenue is accelerating and that it’s reached tremendous proportions thanks to COVID-19 shifting consumer behavior closer to its product.
We also recently learned that the company is slowly downsizing to likely put its earnings metrics in the right place to sell shares to public investors; Profit is the word of the moment, or maybe “efficiency instead of growth”.
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