AAA Vocera dials into $80.5m IPO

Vocera dials into $80.5m IPO

Motorola and Cisco Systems-backed Vocera Communications, which provides mobile technology for hospitals, is set to raise up to $80.5m in its initial public offering (IPO) after it set its range on Tuesday.

Vocera said 5.75m shares would be sold at between $12 per share to $14 per share, and 750,000 of the shares would be sold by shareholders, according to a filing with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

The top end of the range gives the business a $304.3m market capitalisation, based on its 21.7 million shares outstanding.

The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker VCRA.

Handset maker Motorola had a 4.9% stake prior to flotation and it is selling 72686 shares upon IPO, while technology company Cisco Systems owns a 3.7% stake and it is selling 265,801 shares at IPO.

The biggest shareholders in the company are Venrock (17.3% before flotation), Vanguard Ventures (15.7%), RRE Ventures (13.4%), GGV Capital (9.9%), Vocera executive chairman Robert Zollars (7.7%), Thomas Weisel Venture Partners (6.2%), and Vocera chief technology officer and founder Robert Shostak (5.5%).

The business has raised about $60.5m through financing activities in its history. The business was founded in 2000.

Financial advisers on the flotation are JP Morgan, Piper Jaffray, Baird, William Blair & Co, Wells Fargo Securities and Leerink Swann.

The company made $79.5m revenue, which grew by 40%, and a loss of $2.5m in 2011.

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