An preliminary public providing by Ibotta, a digital promotions firm whose backers embrace Walmart, may greater than double the agency’s valuation in contrast with the place it stood after a 2019 funding spherical.
Ibotta initially filed with the Securities and Trade Fee on March 22, proper after the profitable IPOs of the Astera Labs and Reddit, but it surely wasn’t till Monday that the agency supplied particulars. The amended S-1 reveals it’ll launch greater than 5.6 million shares that vary from $76 to $84. Most of these shall be coming from present stockholders, with solely 2.5 million a part of Ibotta’s providing.
These roughly 5.6 million symbolize nearly 21% of all shares. With 27,221,509 excellent, pricing on the high quality would put Ibotta’s valuation round $2.28 billion, which means the IPO may generate as a lot as $472.5 million.
Whereas Walmart holds 2.7 million shares, the most important enterprise companion is Koch Disruptive Applied sciences, the funding arm of Koch holdings, with round 4.8 million. KDT led Ibotta’s 2019 collection D funding spherical, which on the time valued the corporate round $1 billion.
In terms of who controls Ibotta, two of the three main VCs—Walmart and Clark Jermoluk Founders Fund—stated they aren’t promoting any shares, and Koch Industries is simply giving up slightly below 5% of its present 20% voting rights. Leach is placing up simply 531,000 of his 4.26 million shares and can retain nearly 70% management.
The Denver-based firm, which is able to commerce on the NYSE below IBTA, achieved profitability final yr whereas producing $320 million in income. In a letter accompanying the submitting, CEO Bryan Leach famous how Ibotta started simply 12 years in the past “within the windowless basement of an outdated fireplace station in downtown Denver.”
“Our capital-light enterprise has allowed us to develop quickly whereas growing profitability over time and capturing the advantages of a multi-sided community,” he added.
Ibotta’s platform lets client manufacturers market promotions and rebates. Among the many 2,400 manufacturers that use Ibotta are Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Campbell Soup, Kraft Heinz, and Basic Mills. In 2021, the corporate entered right into a partnership with Walmart to showcase its digital promotions.
“The truth that [Ibotta] has turn out to be, with Walmart, extra of an enterprise software program play, principally being the back-end for its Walmart money rewards program, that lends extra credence to it,” Nicholas Smith, an analyst with Renaissance Capital, which gives pre-IPO analysis and manages two IPO-focused ETFs, just lately informed TechCrunch.
