• Local.com Aims To Raise $15.5 Million In Public Offering

    Friday, January 14th, 2011

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Local search site operator Local.com this morning announced that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 4 million shares of its common stock at a price of $4.25 per share.

    Net proceeds, after discounts, commissions and estimated expenses, will be approximately $15.5 million.

    Local.com has given the underwriter, Canaccord Genuity, a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of common stock to cover overallotments, if any. If exercised, the overallotment will result in net proceeds to the company of approximately $2.3 million (which would thus bring the total of capital raised to $17.8 million).

    Local.com owns and operates a local search site and network in the United States. The company claims it provides over 20 million consumers with relevant search results for local businesses each month, on Local.com and over 1,000 partner sites.

    The company, which is listed on NASDAQ, is getting a beating on the markets today.

    Company: Local.com
    Website: local.com
    Launch Date: 1999
    IPO: February 1, 2009, LOCM

    Local.com® was founded in 1999 – The company’s first product was a downloadable software application that consumers could use to search for product information online. Its second-generation product was a web-based search engine that allowed the company to reach additional consumers and advertisers through partnerships with other search companies. In 2003, the company developed its patent-pending Keyword DNA™ technology, which was designed to greatly improve the relevance of local search results. The company incorporated Keyword DNA into its LocalDirect search...

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