Enterprise is sexy! 80% of tech startups likely to IPO are B2B

Forget about consumer IPOs: The vast majority of companies expected to go to the public markets in 2013 will be business-focused.

Flash memory provider Violin Memory reportedly files for sky-high IPO

Violin Memory, the Silicon Valley-based company with a super-fast flash memory service, is hurtling toward a highly successful IPO.

Online gaming giant Nexon raises $1.2B in Toyko IPO (updated)

It’s good to be a gamer, and not so bad to be a game publisher either.

Online-gaming firm Nexon went public today on the Japanese stock market, raising $1.2 billion in a move that will call a lot of attention …

Xunlei, despite canceling IPO, is still raising U.S. copyright concerns

Xunlei, the Chinese Internet company whose IPO was scheduled, then postponed indefinitely this summer, is now catching U.S. legislators’ attention.

VentureBeat guest contributor and Shanghai-based lawyer Greg Pilarowski wrote a column in July comparing Xunlei’s media download business to the …

Angie’s List posts $13 IPO share price, as offering window creaks open

As the tech IPO window creaks open, contractor reviewing site Angie’s List has announced a $13 opening share price for a planned initial public offering later this month.

Evelyn Rusli of The New York Times reports that the company plans …

Weak technology weighs down Groupon’s sinking ship

Groupon’s first technology product Groupon Now appears to be a stinking dud, according to data released on Sunday. The Groupon Now mobile app chalking up some very dour numbers, according to a new report compiled by Yipit, an industry performance …

Ozon.ru raises $100M to become Russia’s Amazon.com — and postal service

Ozon.ru, the fast growing online retailer that calls itself the Amazon.com of Russia, has raised $100 million in new equity funding to fund an ambitious expansion that includes recreating the Russian postal service.

And Ozon.ru is experiencing such terrific growth …

Will Zynga still try to go public?

In the game industry, all eyes will fall to Zynga and whether or not it will still go public in the face of the big stock market collapse.

If the economic headwinds continue to get worse, that will make it …

Market tantrum scares cleantech investors

Cleantech companies might not be feeling the sting of today’s market frenzy any worse than the rest of the pack. But for those companies, which typically require massive capital investments, a sustained downturn could crunch down on the sector’s badly-needed …

Updated: Fresh IPOs stumble amid market tantrum. Is the IPO window closed?

It’s day two of complete market mayhem. Has the chaos closed the window for companies looking to file for an initial public offering?

As of market close, the NASDAQ composite index was down nearly 7 percent for the day. This …

Will tech stocks — and Zynga’s IPO — survive this week’s market bloodbath?

Stock market investors are in a bloodbath. But technology stocks in the past few months have been relatively protected. There was even talk of a “bubble.” Now, recent market activity has sent investors running from equities into safer investments like …

LinkedIn CEO “fully expects” to build in-enterprise social networking tools

Business social-networking site LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner said he expects to include internal enterprise communication tools like those seen in Salesforce.com’s Chatter and Yammer within LinkedIn.

“Certainly as enterprises become increasingly social, that’s an area where we want to …

Reality check: LinkedIn gets a downgrade from analyst

An analyst with investment bank JP Morgan, which helped underwrite business social network LinkedIn’s initial public offering, downgraded the stock today and set a price target of $85.

Doug Anmuth of JP Morgan said the company’s fundamentals were sound, but …

Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus

Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zynga’s SEC filing.

The company, the creator of massively popular social games like Farmville and CityVille, has yet to specify …

Zynga has raised $845M in three rounds over four years

Social games maker Zynga, the developer behind smash hits like FarmVille and CityVille, has raised a total of $845 million in its four years of operation, according to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange commission on Friday.

The …

Compared to Zynga, Groupon is run by a bunch of clowns

Social games maker Zynga, the developer behind smash hits like FarmVille and CityVille, filed for an initial public offering on Friday. It is one of the largest initial public offerings expected this year, alongside group-buying site Groupon.

But the way …

Will Zynga fare better than Pandora, Groupon in its IPO?

Zynga, the game developer behind smash hits FarmVille and CityVille, is the most profitable Web 2.0 company that has filed to go public this year. If this year’s track record with IPOs is any indication, Zynga’s IPO could easily crush …

Andreessen-Horowitz adds former PayPal exec Jeff Jordan

Jeff Jordan, former chairman and CEO of OpenTable, has joined Andreessen-Horowitz as the firm’s fifth partner.

Jordan formerly led online auction site eBay to its acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com as the company’s general manager. He then led PayPal as …

Updated: Zynga might file for $2 billion IPO Wednesday

[Update: a separate report from Bloomberg News also indicates that Zynga might file for an initial public offering tomorrow.]

Social games maker Zynga may file to go public as early as Wednesday to raise up to $2 billion, according to …

Solar panel micro-inverter maker Enphase looking to raise $51.5M ahead of IPO

Solar panel micro-inverter manufacturer Enphase Energy is looking to raise $51.5 million in a funding round and has raised around $14 million of that so far, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Solar panel micro-inverters …