The company has raised $182.1 million since its launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010.Didi Chuxing is not only the “Uber of China.” It’s also Uber’s biggest competitor in China.Recent reports suggest the company won’t beat Uber to the public market. While the company has not confirmed a date, observers are predicting it will file for its IPO in the first half of 2019 with a market capitalization in the neighborhood of $3 billion.Goldman Sachs is also reportedly handling the IPO for Cloudflare, another security software firm.Cloudflare’s software makes websites perform better while also improving their security. Three more are set to go public later this week.And that’s just a taste of what’s to come. That’s 15 times more revenue than the typical company at IPO in 1999 was doing.In other words, unlike 1999, many of today’s IPOs are ready for the “big leagues.”Big Four accounting firm Ernst and Young (E&Y) sees a stampede of IPOs on the horizon.I hope I’ve made it clear a lot of money will be up for grabs in IPOs in the next couple of years.As I mentioned, 21 IPOs have handed investors a quick double or better in the Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Investors finally got their chance to snap up shares in hot companies such as … I love that this rumor has taken hold.I love that the average guy thinks IPOs are dead. Because it means hunting for big IPO profits is “contrarian.”And the biggest profits usually flow into the pockets of investors who can think independently of the crowd.I can tell you with 100% certainty that not only is the IPO market alive and well... 2020 is shaping up to be the “Year of the IPO.”18 private companies have gone public, and that number grows by the day.Why would anyone think the IPO market is toast? Signs pointed to an IPO for the company in 2020, but recent reports speculate that Palantir could delay its IPO for another two or three years. Many people think the initial public offering (IPO) market is dead.If you’ve been reading my essays, you know I specialize in IPOs. Part of the problem is that Ant has struggled to be consistently profitable, as more competitors enter its sector.The British food delivery company hired PwC in February to evaluate its options moving forward, and founder Will Shu has said publicly that an IPO seems like the next logical step for Deliveroo.The company is valued at $2 billion. But with high revenues and a $12.35-billion valuation, mid-2019 is looking more and more like the likely filing date for this popular and resilient site.Pinterest has grown revenue and monthly active users at a steady clip since 2014. "A lot of new investors look at us as the ones who could really be the breakout company in security from a platform perspective," CEO and co-founder George Kurtz At the time, an IPO was seen as a ways off, but more recently CrowdStrike has been interviewing banks to handle an offering. Those losses are primarily fueled by the company’s quest to show consistent sales growth quarter-over-quarter, a must-see for most would-be IPO investors.On that front, Uber has been successful. All you had to do was buy these stocks shortly after their IPO day.Eight companies have gone public since WeWork shelved its failed IPO a few weeks ago. 2020 Is Shaping Up to Be the “Year of the IPO” Big Four accounting firm Ernst and Young (E&Y) sees a stampede of IPOs on the horizon. In 1999, the median age of a company at IPO was just four years.The median IPO generates sales of $174 million today.