Exclusive: Silicon Valley IPO market boom winding down

October 16, 2015 admin allay-concerns, companies, enjoyed-soaring, initial-public, investors, kordestani, scott-dietzen, silicon-valley, tech-companies, valuation-below, ventura

Last year, many tech IPOs enjoyed soaring valuations in their Wall Street debut, raining cash on the companies and their investors and boosting concerns about another Silicon Valley bubble. Now, the party is winding down, according to data analyzed by Reuters: Five of the 12 U.S.-based tech companies that went public this year, or 42 percent, priced their shares at a valuation below or nearly the same as their private market value, compared to 24 percent of the 29 that went public in 2014. “People are no longer out of their minds with valuations and expectations,” said Adam Marcus, managing partner at OpenView Venture Partners in Boston

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Exclusive: Silicon Valley IPO market boom winding down