ThredUp, an online consignment and thrift store offering secondhand clothes, filed confidentially for an IPO in October 2020 and has now publicly released its S-1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for that as expected. ThredUp will list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “TDUP.” By the stats: ThredUp's S-1 filing shows $186 million in revenue for 2020, compared to $164 million in the previous year, 2019, and $130 million in 2018, the year before that. The company isn't profitable and hasn't been for the past three years, reporting respective net losses of $48 million, $38 million, and $34 million in 2020, 2019, and 2018. ThredUp has a high Gross Profit rate, being nearly 70% in both 2020 and 2019. Most of the company's expenses making it record net losses are attributed to 'Operations, product and technology'. ThredUp doesn't spend so much on sales and marketing, with its 2020 and 2019 spend for the segment com
A very big new acquisition has happened in the tech industry, with Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), the publicly-traded cloud identity and access management software provider, announcing an agreement to buy Auth0, a fellow cloud identity software provider, for a price of $6.5 billion to be paid all with shares. A $6.5 billion exit for Auth0 marks a major win for the startup scene in Seattle, the tech hub where Auth0 is based and also a major win for the company's backers and investors. Auth0 last raised venture funding last year in July with a $120 million Series F round that valued the company at $1.9 billion. Now, it's about to sell for more than triple that amount. Auth0 has raised more than $330 million in total venture funding, with investors including the likes of Salesforce Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Telstra Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and DTCP. Salesforce Ventures led Auth0's most recent $120 million Series F round. With its acquisition of a fellow cloud identity a