Tinder, Match.com owner seeks date with investors, Match Group Inc, the buyer of dating casework such as Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday for an antecedent accessible alms of accepted stock.
The aggregation is endemic by media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI.O), which said in June it would float beneath than 20 percent of Match in an IPO.
Dating sites and apps accept acquired acceptance in contempo years with their burning messaging, photosharing and geolocation services.
Revenue rose 10.3 percent to $888.1 actor in 2014, according to the company's IPO filing, while it jumped 19 percent to $254.7 actor in the additional division concluded June.
"It looks like it will be able-bodied accustomed by the IPO bazaar ... it's got the financials that humans are searching for," said Francis Gaskins, admiral of analysis close IPO Desktop.
The Match assemblage has apprenticed solid after-effects for the accomplished few abode at IAC, admitting the internet seek and applications business is the largest.
Match agreed to buy dating website PlentyOfFish for $575 actor in July to aggrandize in the advantageous mobile-based dating casework business.
Market baton Match competes with No. 2 eHarmony and companies such as Zoosk and Spark Networks, which owns JDate and ChristianMingle, in the added than $2 billion-a-year U.S. online dating market.
JP Morgan, Allen & Co LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are the underwriters for the offering, Match said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Match said it affairs to account its banal on the Nasdaq beneath the attribute "MTCH" and set a nominal fundraising ambition of $100 million.
The bulk of money a aggregation says it affairs to accession in its aboriginal IPO filings is acclimated to account allotment fees. The final admeasurement of the IPO could be different.
The aggregation is endemic by media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI.O), which said in June it would float beneath than 20 percent of Match in an IPO.
Dating sites and apps accept acquired acceptance in contempo years with their burning messaging, photosharing and geolocation services.
Revenue rose 10.3 percent to $888.1 actor in 2014, according to the company's IPO filing, while it jumped 19 percent to $254.7 actor in the additional division concluded June.
"It looks like it will be able-bodied accustomed by the IPO bazaar ... it's got the financials that humans are searching for," said Francis Gaskins, admiral of analysis close IPO Desktop.
The Match assemblage has apprenticed solid after-effects for the accomplished few abode at IAC, admitting the internet seek and applications business is the largest.
Match agreed to buy dating website PlentyOfFish for $575 actor in July to aggrandize in the advantageous mobile-based dating casework business.
Market baton Match competes with No. 2 eHarmony and companies such as Zoosk and Spark Networks, which owns JDate and ChristianMingle, in the added than $2 billion-a-year U.S. online dating market.
JP Morgan, Allen & Co LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are the underwriters for the offering, Match said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Match said it affairs to account its banal on the Nasdaq beneath the attribute "MTCH" and set a nominal fundraising ambition of $100 million.
The bulk of money a aggregation says it affairs to accession in its aboriginal IPO filings is acclimated to account allotment fees. The final admeasurement of the IPO could be different.
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