This year 2019 looks set to be one of the strongest years with the IPOs of several of the so-called unicorn start-ups (e.g. Pinterest), i.e. those with a valuation in excess of USD 1 trillion.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago Lyft went public with an IPO, the biggest company to go public since Snapchat two years ago. This year looks set to repeat this trend of big companies going public, with Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest being three of the most interesting.<\/p>\n
In this article we will try to analyse the latest acquisitions made by Pinterest, and how they have affected or contributed to the parent company.<\/p>\n
Pinterest<\/a> is a social network<\/strong> where users can collecting and sharing images, ideas and hobbies,<\/strong> helping to connect all users with things they find interesting.<\/p>\n This is a company that was formed in 2009 as a private network and achieved great growth in 2011, when it went from being an online platform to having an app for iPhones and began to receive large investments in seed rounds<\/strong> in order to allow for scalability and profitability.<\/p>\n Since then it has received 15 funding rounds<\/strong>in which it has succeeded in capturing more than $1,2B<\/strong>which have been used for the constant improvements and upgrades, and for the acquisition of companies<\/a> with complementary products.<\/p>\n Its last 4 mergers and acquisitions<\/a> have been those analysed below:<\/p>\n Jelly is a platform that serves as a Q&A forum. The main features that set it apart from other similar platforms such as Quora or ChaCha were the use of images for the resolution of images<\/strong>The project encourages users to use images both to ask questions and to answer them.<\/p>\n<\/span>Buying companies from Pinterest<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>1) Jelly HQ<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/span>2) Instapaper<\/span><\/h3>\n