Brightcove Seeks $50M IPO

Brightcove, a Cambridge, MA-based digital media and video hosting firm that’s planning a move to Boston, revealed in an SEC filing today that it’s aiming to bring in about $50 million in an initial public offering. The company said that Morgan Stanley and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company will serve as joint book-running managers for the deal. Brightcove raised $12 million in Series D funding in April 2010. It reported a net loss of $9.7 million on revenue of $28.4 million for the first six months of 2011.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.