Last Friday C3 filed their initial S1 statement. A S1 is a document companies file with the SEC in preparation for listing their shares on an exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make investment decisions. There’s a lot of info to digest, so in the sections below I’ll try and pull out the relevant financial information and benchmark it against current cloud businesses. As far as an expected timeline - typically companies launch their roadshow ~3 weeks after filing their initial S1 (the roadshow launches with an updated S1 with a price range). After the roadshow launch there’s typically ~2 weeks before the stock starts trading. So we’re looking at roughly 5 weeks before any retail investor can buy the stock.
The benchmarking against other SaaS metrics really puts their growth trajectory in perspectve. That 71% YoY revenue growth combined with 93% gross retention shows strong product market fit even if the burn multiple is high. The enterprise sales cycle means it'll take time to scale efficiency but the fundamentls look solid for an AI infrastructure play.
The benchmarking against other SaaS metrics really puts their growth trajectory in perspectve. That 71% YoY revenue growth combined with 93% gross retention shows strong product market fit even if the burn multiple is high. The enterprise sales cycle means it'll take time to scale efficiency but the fundamentls look solid for an AI infrastructure play.
The market cap is over $17Bn now?! this is totally beyond me...