DoorDash In search of As much as $2.8 Billion in IPO at Potential $32 Billion Valuation

DoorDash Inc mentioned on Monday it’s aiming to boost as much as $2.8 billion in an preliminary public providing (IPO), which might double the worth of the U.S. meals supply startup and be one among 2020’s largest public market debuts.

DoorDash, the most important U.S. third-party supply firm for eating places, plans to promote 33 million shares priced between $75 and $85 apiece, it mentioned in a regulatory submitting.

On the high of its goal vary, the IPO would give DoorDash a totally diluted valuation – which incorporates securities reminiscent of choices and restricted inventory models – of $31.96 billion, almost double the $16 billion DoorDash was value in a June personal fundraising spherical. DoorDash’s market capitalization at $85 per share would complete $27 billion.

The hefty leap in DoorDash’s valuation in a matter of months underscores the elevated demand for meal supply providers in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to anticipation of continued investor demand for brand new shares which promise progress.

Firms have raised over $140 billion in the USA up to now in 2020, making it the most important 12 months ever for IPOs, in accordance with knowledge from Dealogic.

Based in 2013, DoorDash is backed by the Imaginative and prescient Fund managed by Japan tech big SoftBank Group Corp, enterprise capital agency Sequoia Capital, and the Authorities of Singapore Funding Company (GIC), Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.

DoorDash and rivals Uber Eats, Grubhub Inc and Postmates Inc have benefited from a surge in demand for meals supply providers on account of widespread COVID-19 restrictions.

The corporate posted a surge in income progress in 2020 and its first quarterly revenue, it disclosed in its IPO submitting earlier this month.

A variety of large Silicon Valley names together with Palantir Applied sciences Inc , Snowflake Inc and Unity Software program Inc have gone public this 12 months, using on a inventory market rally within the second half of the 12 months fueled by stimulus cash and hopes of an efficient vaccine to finish the pandemic.

DoorDash’s IPO and a deliberate itemizing by house rental startup Airbnb Inc are set to make December a busy interval for IPOs not like in earlier years and mark a powerful end to a blockbuster 12 months for brand new listings.

San Francisco-based DoorDash plans to drift its shares on the New York Inventory Alternate beneath the ticker ‘DASH’ on Dec. 9. It had confidentially filed for an IPO in February.

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are the lead underwriters for the providing.