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.

The global IPO market produced 334 offerings in 2011, down 30% from 2010. Against the dismal backdrop of the downward spiraling euro-zone, a moribund US economy and heightened market volatility, however, the 2011 results are remarkable. In the US, 24 Internet companies went public, the most to do so in over a decade, and include three of the top five most anticipated Internet 2.0 names. (more)

As recent headlines suggest, economic gloom and extreme volatility have taken their toll on the IPO market. In the month of August alone, 21 US companies nixed plans to go public, 11 of which officially withdrew their filings, the most to do so since the onslaught of the financial crisis. (more)

The profile of the IPO market is currently at its highest level in a decade thanks to a wave of fast-growing second-generation Internet IPOs and pending offerings from some even more hotly anticipated companies. (more)

Another wave of Chinese IPOs is hitting the US equity market, but this time many US investors are staying dry. The reasons for this growing aversion are several, but paramount among them are evidence of actual fraud at a handful of companies, skepticism about business models and growth rates, inadequate financial controls and opaque financial disclosures. (more)