In the tradition of previous quick S-1 teardowns (Snowflake, Palantir, Confluent, Klaviyo, Cerebras, etc), some quick notes on the CoreWeave S-1 from my colleague Aman Kabeer and I. As in prior efforts, this is not meant to be 100% comprehensive (and it’s certainly not investment advice!). The C| Matt Turck
The Palantir S-1 is a long and meaty read, and a pretty fascinating one considering the company was highly secretive, and often controversial, for so many years. It is also written in a very opinionated style: the newly Colorado-based company takes aim at Silicon Valley and is not exactly charitabl| Matt Turck
Full resolution version of the landscape image here It’s been a hot, hot year in the world of data, machine learning and AI. Just when you thought it couldn’t grow any more explosively, the data/AI landscape just did: rapid pace of company creation, exciting new product and project launch| Matt Turck
A member of our Emerging MAD Index of companies on their path to an IPO, Confluent is a very interesting company in a strategic part of the data space, providing infrastructure for real-time data streaming - what it nicely calls "data in motion", in contrast to the world of batch processing or "data| Matt Turck
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's… an IPO. The Cerebras S-1 filing is interesting in many ways, but certainly one is that, well, it is an (upcoming) IPO in the first place. In a context where tech IPOs have been at an all time low, with a very modest uptick in 2024 (Reddit, Rubrik| Matt Turck
Is this it? Are we back? Everyone in the startup and venture world has been waiting for months for the re-opening of the IPO window. After a record breaking 2021 (1035 IPOs, beating the previous record of 480 in 2020), 2022 saw a dramatic decline (181 IPOs) and 2023 so far has not been much better.| Matt Turck