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During a discussion at The Viva technology conference, IronSource CEO Tomer Bar Zeev looks on… [+] The event will take place on June 15, 2017 in Paris. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP PHOTO (The photo credit should be changed to AFP/BERTRAND GUAY/Getty Images)
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After combining with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger, Tel Aviv-based mobile adtech startup ironSource began trading on the NYSE with a $11.1 billion valuation, according to Reuters.
According to CNBC, after the June 29 merger, the company’s stock has dropped 22% from its high. Is the stock now a better buy as a result of the drop?
According to my July 1 interview with CEO Tomer Bar-Zeev, the company has a bright future ahead of it. However, the company’s forecasts show that growth may be decreasing.
When IronSource combined with Thoma Bravo Advantage, a SPAC funded by U.S. private equity firm Thoma Bravo — which has invested in over 300 software businesses — on June 29, it raised $2.5 billion, including a $1.3 billion private investment in public equity (PIPE).
IronSource is a software publisher established in Israel that focuses on “the application economy.” IronSource, according to CNBC, provides three services: an ad network that connects app developers with advertisers and serves ads on their apps; a mediation platform that helps app developers manage their direct relationships with ad providers that serve ads on their apps; and a marketing platform that allows advertisers to create and optimize ad campaigns.

IronSource plans to utilize the capital to grow its app developer platform through acquisitions. “The reason we’re doing it now, putting a lot of cash on the balance sheet and having this currency, collaborating with Thoma Bravo,” Bar-Zeev told Reuters, “is to ensure we have all the weaponry we need to be the market consolidator.”
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Stocks, in my perspective, move largely on how well they do each quarter in comparison to expectations on Wall Street. More precisely, the stock will climb if the company exceeds quarterly revenue and earnings growth estimates and boosts its prediction for the current quarter and the remainder of the year. Otherwise, the stock will either stay the same or fall.
For the fiscal year, IronSource predicts lesser growth. What do you mean by that? According to Reuters, it recorded 96 percent revenue growth to over $120 million in the first quarter of 2021 and anticipates 24.4 percent top-line growth for the entire year of 2021, rising from $390 million in 2020 to an estimated $485 million this year.
According to Globes, ironSource’s cash cow was a participant in Israel’s renowned “Download Valley” until late in 2020.
InstallCore was the cash cow, according to Globes, a series of “installation and content distribution programs” that “allowed customers to install products such as antivirus, Zoom, a music player, or Chrome on their own PCs.”
“Additional programs that ‘rode’ on the installation, offering the user more and more programs,” IronSource said of installCore. According to Globes, a user who installs Zoom will be given the option to alter their browser’s default search engine. Many customers downloaded products they didn’t need since the provider — Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft — would pay ironSource a commission if the user followed the suggestion “didn’t care to read the fine print or didn’t comprehend what they were consenting to in the first place. Companies like Babylon, Conduit, WebPick, and Superfish, who used to occupy the Israeli Download Valley with similar advancements, have either changed their ways or closed down “Globes claims this.
IronSource has figured out a way to cut down on the amount of money it makes from this installation engine.
Here’s how to do it: Bar-company, Zeev’s then known as Foxtab, was producing between $50 million and $70 million in cash from roughly 80 million downloads two years after it was formed, according to Globes.
That year, Foxtab merged with Volonet, a startup sponsored by Carmel Ventures’ Shlomo Dovrat and currently known as Viola Ventures. IronSource, the amalgamated business, has completed at least a dozen acquisitions. Software businesses that granted it complete control over game monetization were among them.
According to Globes, the acquisitions provided services that displayed advertisements when installing software.
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Later, IronSource bought a game studio.
Unfortunately, consumers do not all adore ironSource’s services. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is collecting 45 complaints about ironSource’s Supersonic, a platform bought in 2015 that allows app developers to distribute their apps, assess their distribution, and monetize them through advertising.
Consumers have experienced difficulty receiving prizes in the past. “In June of 2015, BBB became aware of Supersonic. In January 2017, a study of the company’s complaints revealed concerns with clients receiving rewards. According to complaints, when requested proof is presented but awards are not provided, “BBB remarked.
IronSource has been contacted for comment, and I will update this post if I receive one.
The ironSource SPAC merger excites Bar-Zeev. “Wow, being listed on the New York Stock Exchange is awe-inspiring! I’m still processing what’s going on.”
The time horizon of IronSource has widened. “All you wanted to do 11 years ago was get through the day. You fantasize about starting a business [that can teach this concept]. We didn’t understand we could grow a significant firm until around six or seven months ago, after rejecting an offer to sell the company “he stated
IronSource’s IPO is the culmination of a “life goal” that stems from the team’s strong “group intelligence.” According to Bar-Zeev, “We have eight cofounders and are confident in the team’s abilities. We have the emotional quotient (EQ) that growth requires.”
The collective intelligence of IronSource is greater than the sum of its parts. “The team is on par with the best in the world. It’s balanced such that the personalities combine to form a group intelligence that’s greater than the sum of its parts. We’re not going to waste time attempting to change the team. We are open to different points of view. We have genuine feelings for one another and are concerned about the company’s success “he stated
For Bar-Zeev, Dovrat has been a major source of inspiration. “Shlomo has been incredible. He’s become one of our closest friends and staunchest supporters. He thinks large, which sets him apart from other venture capitalists. In 2012, he predicted that ironSource would become a large corporation “According to Bar-Zeev.
Dovrat was also impressed by Bar-Zeev. In a June 28 interview, Dovrat told me, “His ability in both technology and business amazed me, resulting in swift and successful judgments. Tomer would design and deliver a solution within a week if he missed a goal due to a difficulty with technology, the product, or the company.”
He was particularly amazed with Bar-ability Zeev’s to outthink his opponents. “Facebook and Google were the competitors. Tomer believed he could outperform the competitors. IronSource’s platform aids in the monetization of game content. IronSource employs a value-based pricing strategy. It takes a cut of the revenue generated by ironSource’s services. Existing customers bought more from the company as a result of this; ironSource had a net retention rate of 149 percent before “Dovrat told me, “He IPO.”
IronSource’s stock should rise in value if it can beat its sales growth predictions and boost its guidance. Investors should keep an eye on the company’s ability to sell more to current clients. That appears to be the case, since Dovrat recently told me that it had a 176 percent net retention rate among current clients since the IPO.
IronSource might add new customers, provide more services to existing customers, and grow faster than its forecast to investors if it can make further acquisitions and integrate them into its culture of “meaningful pleasure,” as Bar-Zeev describes it./nRead More

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