Adyen said that payments volumes for the firm were up 80 percent year over year to a volume of $90 billion. The key drivers were and have been retail and fashion, the firm said. Global expansion has been proceeding apace as the firm signs new clients and...
Will 2017 mark a steady drum of hoofprints from unicorns coming public? 2016 is already in the rearview mirror, with a somnolent showing, as the 105 IPOs seen last year (not all of them unicorns, of course) were down nearly 40 percent from 2015’s levels. The...
IPOs are re-emerging as a topic of discussion swirling around unicorns. And an upcoming entrant to the public markets may be ShopClues, a marketplace company based in India that expects to see sales of $2 billion on its platform through the next year (even despite...
We promise not to mention the U.S. election in this week’s Unicorn Tracker. Because, you know, there are other things to talk about. While one nation (guess which one) ponders whether it wants to entertain an existential crisis or not, firms can have their own...
The weather is getting colder, but there could be some warming up in news surrounding unicorns, with some positive Wall Street coverage and even a bit of deal making. For Adyen, one website’s outage is another provider’s gain. This past week, Etsy said it would sign with Adyen...
This week, it’s been all about initial public offerings for unicorns. Two stand out — one that is almost here and another that is on its way, perhaps. As the tech world knows by now, Nutanix, the enterprise cloud company, is on its way toward...
Among the bigger news within eCommerce unicorns this past week is the continuing competition between Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart, as the firms gear up for the traditional selling season in India, beginning next month. The leaders in the space, and in India, are Amazon and Flipkart, jousting for market...
All quiet on the unicorn front this past week. Well, not completely. While the rest of the world — that would be the public equities markets — sees roller coaster rides, up and then down, on the vagaries of interest rate hikes (or no interest...
