Upcoming IPOs in 2020

Victor Koch
5 min readDec 6, 2019

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The year 2019 was a mixed year for the tech (IPO) market, But 2020 could be even ambitious, based on recent news from various sources. Some investors were upset by the results of the companies that entered the stock exchange in 2019 (Uber, Lyft, WeWork, Peloton, and someone received a magnificent and unexpected ascent (Beyond Meat).

A wave of high-profile listings are expected to hit the markets in 2020, but which of these stocks will dominate the IPO space?

It’s been a big year for companies making initial public offerings and I’m ready to open some information from our IPO-platform for everyone. First of all, we find out the most recent speculation and public announcements on the biggest IPOs rumored to be happening in 2019 and 2020.

For this post, I’d like to use the Stick pre-IPO platform to show how this tool can be useful for investors and funds, Stick — is a financial and data platform that provides traction, tracking, charts, analytics, and signals of pre-IPO companies. It helps to make the right decision based on thousands of data sources, thereby we understand the market of private companies much better than brokers.

Our engine based on machine learning and smart rating of all company indicators which we know.

  • Valuation traction
  • Secondaries transactions
  • Price traction
  • Growth rate
  • DDS financial data / P/E ratio and other things
  • S&P 500/Nasdaq Index Progression
  • Signals and social data
  • HR indicators
  • News
  • Funding metrics
  • Market size
  • Feedback tools

The Ai-based indicator (Smart Score) includes more than 35 parameters.

Please note that — the upside of profitability depends on the rating, where is(SS Max (10.00), SS Min (0.001))

Here’s a quick look at each of the companies:

Chime Bank Profile

1— Chime [Smart Score 5.34]

Chime is one of the fastest-growing bank accounts in the U.S. and a mobile-only app, FDIC-insured bank with no monthly fees and no minimum deposit. When opening an account with Chime, you get a checking account (Chime calls it a spending account), a debit card and a savings account.

Designed for banking with a smartphone instead of at a brick-and-mortar location, Chime is advertised as a bank for Millennials. For this reason, Chime works best for anyone with an uncomplicated financial situation, looking to set up an easy mobile-only account.

Update 12.05.2019: Chime raised $500M and now has a valuation of $5.8B

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Coursera Profile

2— Coursera [Smart Score 6.02]

Coursera is an online provider of an online education and learning platform designed to offer courses to empower learners around the world. The company’s platform offers online courses that include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments as well as, community discussion forums, enabling learners to choose from a variety of courses in areas like business, computer science, data science, and public health to achieve their career, educational and personal enrichment goals.

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Zomato Profile

3 — Zomato [Smart Score 2.78]

Zomato is a company that offers a restaurant search and discovery app and website, providing in-depth information about restaurants. Zomato is used by consumers to discover, rate and review restaurants, as well as create their own personal network of foodies for trusted recommendations. Zomato founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah, headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

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Impossible Foods Profile

4— Impossible Foods [Smart Score 3.84]

Impossible foods — provider of plant-based burgers created to sell wholesome food directly from plants. The company’s plant-based burgers combine natural ingredients like fats, amino acids and vitamins to create raw meat from plants that delivers the texture and aroma of conventional beef, enabling consumers to access an alternative to conventional meat and dairy products.

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Darktrace Profile

5 — DarkTrace [Smart Score 3.40]

Darktrace is an artificial intelligence company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians, the Enterprise Immune System uses machine learning and AI algorithms to detect and respond to cyber-threats across diverse digital environments, including cloud and virtualized networks, IoT and industrial control systems. The company’s threat defense systems include detecting emerging cyber-threats and to proactively defend against in-progress cyber-attacks, enabling clients to defend against evolving threats that bypass all other systems.

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DataBricks Profile

6 — DataBricks [Smart Score 2.52]

Databricks — as the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. The company’s cloud and machine learning-based platform offers data integration simplification, real-time exploration, interactive notebooks, integrated workflows, full enterprise security and deployment of production applications by unifying data science, engineering, and business, enabling data science teams to work with improved usability, performance, and security in an optimized runtime.

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Asana Profile

7 — Asana [Smart Score 1.45]

Asana develops online task management software solutions that allow teams to assign tasks and deadlines, and to track the progress of their projects. The Company’s platform features tasks, projects, sections, due dates and times, attachments, hearts, task conversations, project conversations, team pages, my tasks, inbox, search, dashboards, calendars, files view, task assignees, followers, and guests. Its customers range from companies with off-the-charts growth to local businesses and non-profits.

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The content was provided by Stick [Financial platform] and does not make any one-stop recommendation for the purchase of shares. All data was used for only informational purposes and does not contain insider information that may be malicious or refuted by the company and SEC.

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Victor Koch
Victor Koch

Written by Victor Koch

Serial entrepreneur, accredited investor, and hedge fund manager. Ex-General Partner of Koch Fund

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