Thanks to the performance of Beyond Meat, investors who focus on venture-backed tech IPOs have done well this year despite some notable disappointments.
If instead of putting $1 million into every IPO, you'd invested $13 million into the S&P 500 at the beginning of the year, you'd be up 20% at $15.6 million.that "Silicon Valley has been on the bad end of a bad joke for about four decades now, in terms of the way the traditional IPO process works." Most of the gains come from the immediate IPO pop, meaning companies are giving away upside to new investors.
There are many caveats to comparing this year's IPO investments to the S&P 500. Most notably, this methodology doesn't factor in market cap but just assumes an equal investment in every company. Also, most of the offerings haven't hit their lock-up expiration yet. In the coming months, a flood of new shares will hit the market, potentially pushing some of these stocks downward., a food company backed by venture firms, in your tech portfolio.
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