, a cloud management software startup, has filed for a $100 million initial public offering, according to new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents.
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The company, which brands itself as a ���continuous intelligence platform,��� analyzes data to give businesses more actionable information for things like operations, security and compliance. As a private company, Sumo Logic raised at least $340 million in total funding from backers including, , 泭硃紳餃 , per 蹤獲弝け. It last raised money with a $110 million round in May 2019.
In the, the company reported $155 million in revenue for the year that ended on Jan. 31, 2020, up nearly 50 percent from the same period the year prior, when it reported $103.6 million in revenue. At the same time, the company���s losses have been quickly rising. Being unprofitable isn���t uncommon for startups going public nowadays, and Sumo Logic���s net losses increased nearly 93 percent from $47.8 million in the year ending Jan. 31, 2019, to $92 million in the year ending Jan. 31, 2020.
More recently, for the three months that ended April 30, Sumo Logic reported $47.2 million in revenue, up from about $32.5 million during the same period the year prior. Its net losses also grew to nearly $23.6 million from $15.2 million, according to the filing.��
Sumo Logic is among a growing number of tech startups to go public in the second half of 2020, after the IPO market experienced a down period following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies including , and have all gone public this summer (ZoomInfo and Vroom in June), and companies like and have filed confidential S-1 registration statements with the SEC.
, , and are among the underwriters for the IPO. The company plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SUMO.
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