Comment on Pivotal Software closed up 5% following IPO, raised $555 million

Pivotal Software closed up 5% following IPO, raised $555 million

Stock market investors showed lukewarm enthusiasm for Pivotal Software’s debut on Friday. After pricing the IPO at $15, the company closed the day at $15.73. Although it didn’t “pop” for new investors, pricing at the midpoint of its proposed range allowed Pivotal to raise $555 million. Its public company market cap exceeded $3 billion. The enterprise cloud computing company has been majority-owned by Dell, which came about after its merger with EMC in 2016. It was spun off from Dell, EMC and VMware in April 2013. After that, it raised $1.7 billion in funding from Microsoft, Ford and General Electric. Here’s how it describes its business in the S-1 filing: Pivotal looks to “provide a leading cloud-native platform that makes software development and IT operations a strategic advantage for our customers.

 

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