Beyond Meat
Company role: Animal-free meat products
Year founded: 2009
Headquarters location: El Segundo, California
Valuation: $1.35 billion
Total funding raised: $192.8 million
Reported revenue: $56.4 million in first nine months of 2018 (MarketWatch)
IPO status: Beyond Meat filed to go public under the ticker BYND in November 2018. However, the company has yet to list due to delays and inabilities to get paperwork approved resulting from the 35-day federal government shutdown that went through January.
Lyft
Company role: Ride-hailing app
Year founded: 2007
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $15.1 billion
Total funding raised: $4.91 billion
Reported revenue: $909 million in first half of 2018 (The Information)
IPO status: Lyft confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in December. Multiple news outlets have reported Lyft is readying to make its filing public as soon as the end of February, with a roadshow beginning the week of March 18.
PagerDuty
Company role: IT incident management platform
Year founded: 2009
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $1.3 billion
Total funding raised: $173.7 million
Reported revenue: $100 million in "annual recurring revenue" as of September 2018 (Forbes)
IPO status: PagerDuty reportedly confidentially filed to go public with the SEC in January, but has faced delays due to the government shutdown.
Company role: Social content-sharing platform
Year founded: 2008
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $12.3 billion
Total funding raised: $1.47 billion
Reported revenue: On track to hit nearly $1 billion in ad revenue anticipated in 2019 (Cheddar)
IPO status: Pinterest reportedly confidentially filed go to public in February, and has its eye on a June IPO.
Postmates
Company role: On-demand food delivery app
Year founded: 2011
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $1.85 billion
Total funding raised: $680 million
Reported revenue: $250 million in 2017 (Recode)
IPO status: Postmates announced in early February that it had filed paperwork with the SEC to go public.
Slack
Company role: Workplace messaging and communication platform
Year founded: 2009
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $7.13 billion
Total funding raised: $1.22 billion
Reported revenue: $221 million in 2017 fiscal year (CNBC)
IPO status: Slack announced in early February that it had confidentially filed to go public with the SEC. Slack is reportedly planning to go public through a direct listing rather than an IPO, following in the footsteps of Spotify. Its public debut is expected for the second quarter in 2019.
Uber
Company role: Ride-hailing service
Year founded: 2009
Headquarters location: San Francisco, California
Valuation: $72 billion
Total funding raised: $19.94 billion
Reported revenue: $11.4 billion in net revenue in 2018 (Bloomberg)
IPO status: Uber reportedly confidentially filed to go public in December. But in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in January, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is in no rush to go public, and will "do it when we're ready."
Zoom
Company role: Video conferencing software
Year founded: 2011
Headquarters location: San Jose, California
Valuation: $1 billion
Total funding raised: $160.8 million
Reported revenue: Does not report financials, but reported 150% growth in revenue for 2017 (Zoom press release)
IPO status: Zoom is aiming to file to go public by the end of March, and could go public as soon as April, Business Insider first reported. Zoom filed confidentially with the SEC during the government shutdown in early 2019, which delayed its listing process.
Bumble
Company role: Dating app and networking app known for its feature where women make the first move to message matches.
Source: Wall Street Journal