Anaplan, a US-based provider of organisational planning software, filed on Friday to raise up to $100m in an initial public offering that would enable enterprise software producer Salesforce to exit.
Founded in 2006, Anaplan has developed a cloud-based platform that helps enterprise clients connect people, plans and data in order to make more informed decisions across their organisations. It had 979 corporate customers as of the end of July this year.
The offering will follow some $300m in funding for Anaplan, including a $60m series F round featuring Salesforce’s corporate venturing unit, Salesforce Ventures, in December 2017 that valued it at $1.4bn.
Premji Invest led the 2017 round, which included Baillie Gifford, Granite Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Industry Ventures and Meritech Capital.
Salesforce first officially invested in the company as part of a $33m series C round that closed in 2013 with backing from Meritech Capital Partners, Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
DFJ Growth led Anaplan’s $100m series D round in 2014, investing with Salesforce, business management software producer Workday, Meritech, Granite Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Brookside Capital, Coatue Management and Sands Capital Management.
Anaplan added $90m in an early 2016 round led by Premji Invest and backed by Salesforce, Baillie Gifford, Brookside Capital, Coatue Management, DFJ Growth, Granite Ventures, Meritech, Sands Capital, Shasta Ventures, Founders Circle Capital and Harmony Partners.
Neither Salesforce nor Workday own stakes in Anaplan sized at 5% or more. The company’s largest investors are Shasta Ventures (12.8%), Granite Ventures (12.1%), Coatue (7.7%), Meritech (7.6%) and Premji Invest (7.4%).
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been appointed lead joint book-running managers for the IPO while Barclays Capital is book-running manager.
KeyBanc Capital Markets, Canaccord Genuity, Evercore Group, JMP Securities, Needham & Company, Piper Jaffray and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey are co-managers for the offering.