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Chat-service firm Slack taps Goldman Sachs to lead IPO
The San Franciscobased company is among a string of Silicon Valley unicorns expected to debut in the stock market in 2019
The San Francisco-based company is among a string of Silicon Valley unicorns expected to debut in the stock market in 2019.
Slack Technologies Inc, a provider of chat and direct messaging services for businesses, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc to lead its initial public offering (IPO) next year as an underwriter, people familiar with the matter said.
The San Francisco-based company is among a string of Silicon Valley unicorns expected to debut in the stock market in 2019. Other IPO hopefuls include apartment-rental service Airbnb Inc, analytics firm Palantir Technologies and Stripe Inc, a digital payment company.
Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc beat bigger rival Uber Technologies Inc in filing for an IPO this week, defying the recent market jitters that have weighed on corporate valuations.
Slack is rounding up its underwriting syndicate and hopes to fetch a valuation of well over USD 10 billion in its IPO, whose exact timing will depend on market conditions, the sources said on Friday.
The sources asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential. Slack and Goldman Sachs both declined to comment.
Slack is competing against the likes of Microsoft Corp’s Teams, Alphabet Inc’s Google Hangouts Chat and Cisco Systems Inc’s Webex Teams in the so-called workplace collaboration market, which research firm IDC has projected will be worth USD 3.2 billion by 2021.
Slack last raised USD 427 million in August in a private fundraising round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic, giving it a valuation of more than USD 7.1 billion. It previously raised USD 250 million in 2017 at a USD 5.1 billion valuation, in a fundraising round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp.
It is unclear how market turmoil fueled by the escalating trade tensions between the United States and China could impact Slack’s IPO plans.
On Thursday, biotechnology company Moderna Inc braved market volatility and sold around USD 604.3 million in shares in its IPO.
