Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Pluralsight Reveals IPO Filing

Farmington, Utah-based Pluralsight, the provider of online technical training and classes led by Aaron Skonnard, has filed for an IPO. Pluralsigh said in an S-1 filing with the SEC on Monday that it hopes to raise up to $100M in an IPO offering on the The Nasdaq Global Select Market. The company has applied to list as PS. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, First Analysis Securities Corp., Needham & Company, Raymond James, and Suntrust Robinson Humphrey. Pluralsight's biggest investor is Insight Venture Partners, which owns 53 percent of the company's stock before the IPO; the company's other major investor is ICONIQ Strategic Partners, which owns 9.3 percent of the company's pre-IPO stock; CEO and founder Aaron Skonnard has 13.4 percent of the company. Pluralsight had said earlier this month that it had filed a confidential IPO document; this is the first time those documents have been made public to investors.