Renaissance Capital, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, is the global leader in providing independent research and investment management services on newly public companies. (more)

Renaissance Capital was founded by three Wharton Business School Grads in 1991. Kathleen Shelton Smith, Chairman, was a Director of Technology and Emerging Growth Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. William K. Smith, Chief Executive Officer, was a financial restructuring investment banker at Bear Stearns and Kidder Peabody. Linda R. Killian, CFA and Portfolio Manager, was a research analyst and portfolio manager at Citibank and Wertheim Schroeder.

Renaissance’s founders have given lectures and participated in seminars at Wharton, Yale and Tuck business schools. The firm’s senior professionals have appeared on CNBC, PBS, ABC, and Bloomberg Radio and TV as well as provide commentary to numerous print and online publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Investors’ Business Daily.

Renaissance Capital’s analysts are all honors MBAs or BS/BA graduates from some of the top universities in the United States including Dartmouth, Georgetown, New York University and Princeton. Our experienced analysts provide in-depth research on every IPO and track the latest developments in the IPO market.

It is a testament to the resilience of global economies, entrepreneurship, and financial animal spirits that the global IPO market rebounded as quickly and strongly as it did in 2009 after the devastations of worldwide stock markets and banking systems in 2008. (more)

While the IPO market has taken the first steps toward healing, a glimpse into the growing pipeline reveals that the path to full recovery will be different than those that followed prior economic downturns. As the IPO market rebounded from a moderately deep recession in 1991, the leading industry sectors were business services, technology, retail and health care. (more)

Of all financial markets, only the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market is healing itself without big government intervention. The recent successful debuts of pediatric nutritionist Mead Johnson, foreign language specialist Rosetta Stone and Chinese internet game creator Changyou are all testimony that entrepreneurial spirits still live. (more)