IPO Activity Returns to Pre-Recession Levels in Second Quarter

The San Francisco Bay Area

Imperva, Foster City, (Software)

Corsair Components, Fremont, (Computers and Peripherals)

Quark Pharmaceuticals, Fremont, (Pharmaceuticals)

Ambarella, Menlo Park, (Semiconductors)

Circle Bancorp, Novato, (Banking)

BrightSource Energy, Oakland, (Energy)

SS/L Holdings, Palo Alto, (Communications)

Enphase Energy, Petaluma, (Industrial Instruments)

Iron Planet, Pleasanton, (Business Services)

Ubiquiti Networks, San Jose, (Communications)

BlueArc, San Jose, (Computers and Peripherals)

Apache Design Solutions, San Jose, (Software)

Inteleeper, San Mateo, (Software)

CafePress, San Mateo, (Textile and Apparel)

WageWorks, San Mateo, (Professional Services)

InvenSense, Sunnyvale, (Software)

Cortina Systems, Sunnyvale, (Software)

Boston Area

Bruker Energy & Superconducting Technologies, Billerica, (Industrial)

NEXX Systems, Billerica, (Industrial)

Carbonite, Boston, (IT and Computer Services)

Dunkin’ Brands Group, Canton, (Restaurants)

GlassHouse Technologies, Framingham, (IT and Computer Services)

Aspen Aerogels, Northborough, (Industrial)

Myriant, Quincy, (Biotechnology)

New York Area

Avaya Holdings, Basking Ridge, NJ, (Communications)

Primus Therapeutics, Skillman, NJ, (Pharmaceuticals)

Toys “R” Us, Wayne, NJ, (Retail)

New Century Transportation, Westhampton, NJ, (Transportation)

Party City Holdings, Elmsford, NY, (Wholesale)

ConvergEx, New York, NY, (Software)

Telx Group, New York, NY, (Other Communications)

Seattle Area

Homestreet, Seattle, (Banking and Financial)

Impinj, Seattle, (Technology)

Zillow, Seattle, (Professional Firms and Services)

San Diego

Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, (Semiconductors)

IASO Pharma, San Diego, (Pharmaceuticals)

Detroit Area

Ally Financial, Detroit, (Banking and Financial)

Delphi Automotive, Troy, MI, (Automotive)

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.