Cloudflare Gears Up for IPO
August 22, 2019 by Chris Lange
Cloudflare has filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its initial public offering (IPO). No pricing details were mentioned in the filing, but the offering is valued up to $100 million, although this number is usually just a placeholder. The company intends to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NET.
The underwriters for the offering are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Jefferies, Wells Fargo, RBC Capital Markets, JMP Securities, Evercore ISI, Needham, Oppenheimer, BTIG and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Cloudflare has built a global cloud platform that delivers a broad range of network services to businesses of all sizes around the world, making them more secure, enhancing the performance of their business-critical applications, and eliminating the cost and complexity of managing and integrating individual network hardware. The company provides businesses a scalable, easy-to-use, unified control plane to deliver security, performance, and reliability across their on-premise, hybrid, cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) applications.
Management believes that its platform disrupts several large and well-established IT markets. The key markets that are addressed by this platform include VPN, internal and external firewalls, web security (including web application firewalls and content filtering), distributed denial of service (DDoS) prevention, intrusion detection and prevention, application delivery controls, content delivery networks, domain name systems, advanced threat prevention (ATP), and wide area network (WAN) technology.
In the filing, the firm described its finances as follows:
We have experienced significant growth, with our revenue increasing from $84.8 million in 2016 to $134.9 million in 2017 and to $192.7 million in 2018, increases of 59% and 43%, respectively. As we continue to invest in our business, we have incurred net losses of $17.3 million, $10.7 million, and $87.2 million for 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, our revenue increased from $87.1 million to $129.2 million, an increase of 48%, and we incurred net losses of $32.5 million and $36.8 million, respectively.
The company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital, operating expenses and capital expenditures.
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