CreditCards.com has filed to raise up to $115M in an initial public offering.
Earlier this morning, CreditCards.com, an online credit card portal that built its business around a valuable domain name, filed to raise up to $115M in an initial public offering. Although the exact valuation of the company is not yet known, the company’s S-1 filing with the SEC validates my previous assumption that the 2006 purchase of the company was north of $100M.
In October 2006, we paid approximately $133.8 million in cash (including approximately $350,000 in transaction fees and expenses) and issued approximately 2.1 million shares of Series A-1 convertible redeemable preferred stock at a price per share of $7.82 to the owner of the Predecessor in exchange for substantially all of the assets of the Predecessor.
That values the company at more than $133.8M.
Internet Real Estate Group sold the domain to Click Success in 2004 for “only” $2.75M. Daniel H. Smith pocketed $97.7M from the sale to an Austin Ventures-backed group in 2006. The purchase by the group in 2006 from Click Success was financed partially with debt from American Capital Strategies (NASDAQ: ACAS).
CreditCards.com’s S-1 filing is a treasure trove of information about the company’s traffic (they actually have more than one domain driving traffic) and earnings per visitor. In the first half of this year, the company received 5.899M visitors and earned $4.64 per visitor. The traffic was up only slightly from the same period last year, but revenue per visitor increased 46%:
Earlier this morning, CreditCards.com, an online credit card portal that built its business around a valuable domain name, filed to raise up to $115M in an initial public offering. Although the exact valuation of the company is not yet known, the company’s S-1 filing with the SEC validates my previous assumption that the 2006 purchase of the company was north of $100M.
In October 2006, we paid approximately $133.8 million in cash (including approximately $350,000 in transaction fees and expenses) and issued approximately 2.1 million shares of Series A-1 convertible redeemable preferred stock at a price per share of $7.82 to the owner of the Predecessor in exchange for substantially all of the assets of the Predecessor.
That values the company at more than $133.8M.
Internet Real Estate Group sold the domain to Click Success in 2004 for “only” $2.75M. Daniel H. Smith pocketed $97.7M from the sale to an Austin Ventures-backed group in 2006. The purchase by the group in 2006 from Click Success was financed partially with debt from American Capital Strategies (NASDAQ: ACAS).
CreditCards.com’s S-1 filing is a treasure trove of information about the company’s traffic (they actually have more than one domain driving traffic) and earnings per visitor. In the first half of this year, the company received 5.899M visitors and earned $4.64 per visitor. The traffic was up only slightly from the same period last year, but revenue per visitor increased 46%:
