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Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

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We consistently cover the Tech, Consumer and Industrial sectors, and provide ECM and Events coverage more broadly.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tuya-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32158:1" rel="noopener">Tuya Inc (1869782D US)</a> . provides a purpose-built IoT cloud platform with a full-suite of offerings that include Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to businesses and developers. The company has filed for an IPO to list its shares in the US and could raise as much as US$1bn.The company powered over 116.5m IoT devices in 2020, making it the largest IoT PaaS business in the global market for IoT PaaS in terms of volume (source: CIC).This is the First of a series of reports on Tuya’s IPO, and in this insight, we take a look at the company’s business model, segments and revenues.

Tuya Inc (1869782D US) . provides a purpose-built IoT cloud platform with a full-suite of offerings that include Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to businesses and developers. The company has filed for an IPO to list its shares in the US and could raise as much as US$1bn.The company powered over 116.5m IoT devices in 2020, making it the largest IoT PaaS business in the global market for IoT PaaS in terms of volume (source: CIC).This is the First of a series of reports on Tuya’s IPO, and in this insight, we take a look at the company’s business model, segments and revenues.

Tuya IPO: Software Platform for the IoT Era

APAC IPOs & Placements

Zhen Zhou, Toh

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

<div><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tuya-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32158:1" rel="noopener">Tuya Inc (1869782D US)</a> is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming U.S. IPO. </div><div>
Tuya is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider to businesses and developers with a focus on IoT. The company’s IoT PaaS enables businesses and developers to easily develop, launch, manage, and monetize software-enabled devices and services while its Industry SaaS helps businesses deploy, connect, and manage a large number and different types of smart devices.
In this note, we review Tuya's IoT platform and share our thoughts on it.
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Tuya Inc (1869782D US) is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming U.S. IPO. 
Tuya is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider to businesses and developers with a focus on IoT. The company’s IoT PaaS enables businesses and developers to easily develop, launch, manage, and monetize software-enabled devices and services while its Industry SaaS helps businesses deploy, connect, and manage a large number and different types of smart devices.
In this note, we review Tuya's IoT platform and share our thoughts on it.


Tuya (涂鸦智能) Pre-IPO - Tuya's Platform Usage Review

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Tuya is one of the global leaders in the IoT based software products and solutions. In 2020, Tuya powered over 116.5 million smart devices, making Tuya the largest IoT PaaS business in the global market of IoT PaaS in terms of the volume of smart devices powered.Established in 2014, the Hangzhou, China based Tuya plans to list on the NYSE. Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, and CICC are the joint bookrunners in this IPO. The company has put the IPO placeholder at $100 million but this could be raised to as much as <a href="http://www.aastocks.com/en/stocks/news/aafn-news/NOW.1075476/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 billion. </a>Similar to how smartphones and mobile connectivity has changed the world in the past decade, there is a huge amount of interest in IoT (Internet of Things) driven technology which is just starting to get penetrated in businesses around the world. Similar to how smartphones have allowed millions of people to be better "connected", the IoT technology will now enable the "machines to be connected" to the network, enabling greater business efficiencies and new revenue opportunities. The company generated revenue of $179.9 million (up 70% YoY) and gross profit of $61.9 million (up 122.8% YoY) in 2020. Gross margin of the company improved from 26.3% in 2019 to 34.4% in 2020. Loss from operations as a percentage of revenue improved from -69.4% in 2019 to -38.8% in 2020.

Tuya is one of the global leaders in the IoT based software products and solutions. In 2020, Tuya powered over 116.5 million smart devices, making Tuya the largest IoT PaaS business in the global market of IoT PaaS in terms of the volume of smart devices powered.Established in 2014, the Hangzhou, China based Tuya plans to list on the NYSE. Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, and CICC are the joint bookrunners in this IPO. The company has put the IPO placeholder at $100 million but this could be raised to as much as $1 billion. Similar to how smartphones and mobile connectivity has changed the world in the past decade, there is a huge amount of interest in IoT (Internet of Things) driven technology which is just starting to get penetrated in businesses around the world. Similar to how smartphones have allowed millions of people to be better "connected", the IoT technology will now enable the "machines to be connected" to the network, enabling greater business efficiencies and new revenue opportunities. The company generated revenue of $179.9 million (up 70% YoY) and gross profit of $61.9 million (up 122.8% YoY) in 2020. Gross margin of the company improved from 26.3% in 2019 to 34.4% in 2020. Loss from operations as a percentage of revenue improved from -69.4% in 2019 to -38.8% in 2020.

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tuya-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32158:1" rel="noopener">Tuya Inc (1869782D US)</a> is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming U.S. IPO. Tuya is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider to businesses and developers with a focus on IoT. The company’s IoT PaaS enables businesses and developers to easily develop, launch, manage, and monetize software-enabled devices and services while its Industry SaaS helps businesses deploy, connect, and manage a large number and different types of smart devices.In this note, we look at the company's business, financials, and operating data.

Tuya Inc (1869782D US) is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming U.S. IPO. Tuya is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider to businesses and developers with a focus on IoT. The company’s IoT PaaS enables businesses and developers to easily develop, launch, manage, and monetize software-enabled devices and services while its Industry SaaS helps businesses deploy, connect, and manage a large number and different types of smart devices.In this note, we look at the company's business, financials, and operating data.

Tuya (涂鸦智能) Pre-IPO - Ride the IoT Wave Via Tuya’s Platform

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Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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Global Equity Research Ltd

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tuya-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32158:1" rel="noopener">Tuya Inc (1869782D US)</a> provides a backend service for IoT (internet of things) device makers. Tuya offers its customers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for IoT devices that handles the connectivity, device software and application development. In 2020, Tuya was the largest IoT PaaS business globally as measured by the volume of smart devices powered, according to CIC.Tuya is backed by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tencent-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26:1" rel="noopener">Tencent Holdings (700 HK)</a> (10.8% stake) and NEA (23.9% stake). Jeff Immelt, the former chairman and CEO of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/general-electric-co" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:782:1" rel="noopener">General Electric Co (GE US)</a>, is a venture partner at NEA and has been appointed as a director at Tuya. Tuya has filed for an NYSE IPO to raise proceeds of $1 billion, according to press reports. Despite the growing user demand for smart IoT enabled devices driven by increased affordability and improved user experiences, most products are not connected yet. Devices related to smart home and smart business reached 762.8 million in 2019 and is expected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2024, representing a CAGR of 26.7%, according to CIC. This is a huge opportunity for companies that can offer their customers a cost-effective solution to bring their products online. <div class="content-highlight">PaaS is a key enabler to accelerate the launch of smart IoT enabled devices by making the software development cycles and feature update process time and cost-efficient. PaaS is a platform where third-party providers deliver software, infrastructure and hardware tools needed for software developers to build and manage software efficiently. Tuya’s PaaS solutions are well-positioned to benefit from the rising need for third-party IoT PaaS providers who can provide the required tools. Overall, we believe that Tuya’s fundamentals are attractive.</div>

Tuya Inc (1869782D US) provides a backend service for IoT (internet of things) device makers. Tuya offers its customers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for IoT devices that handles the connectivity, device software and application development. In 2020, Tuya was the largest IoT PaaS business globally as measured by the volume of smart devices powered, according to CIC.Tuya is backed by Tencent Holdings (700 HK) (10.8% stake) and NEA (23.9% stake). Jeff Immelt, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric Co (GE US), is a venture partner at NEA and has been appointed as a director at Tuya. Tuya has filed for an NYSE IPO to raise proceeds of $1 billion, according to press reports. Despite the growing user demand for smart IoT enabled devices driven by increased affordability and improved user experiences, most products are not connected yet. Devices related to smart home and smart business reached 762.8 million in 2019 and is expected to grow to 2.5 billion by 2024, representing a CAGR of 26.7%, according to CIC. This is a huge opportunity for companies that can offer their customers a cost-effective solution to bring their products online. PaaS is a key enabler to accelerate the launch of smart IoT enabled devices by making the software development cycles and feature update process time and cost-efficient. PaaS is a platform where third-party providers deliver software, infrastructure and hardware tools needed for software developers to build and manage software efficiently. Tuya’s PaaS solutions are well-positioned to benefit from the rising need for third-party IoT PaaS providers who can provide the required tools. Overall, we believe that Tuya’s fundamentals are attractive.

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Tuya Inc., doing business as Tuya Smart, provides IoT cloud platform. The Company offers solutions which enables brands, retailers, OEMs, and manufacturers to develop, launch, manage, and monetize software-enabled devices and services. Tuya Smart serves customers worldwide.

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Tuya Inc (TUYA US)

Tuya IPO: Software Platform for the IoT Era

This is the First of a series of reports on Tuya’s IPO, and in this insight, we take a look at the company’s business model, segments and revenues.

Shifara Samsudeen, ACMA, CGMA

Tuya (涂鸦智能) Pre-IPO - Tuya's Platform Usage Review

Tuya Inc (1869782D US) is looking to raise US$1bn in its upcoming U.S. IPO. In this note, we tried Tuya's IoT platform and share our thoughts on it.

Zhen Zhou, Toh

Tuya IPO Preview - An IoT Powerhouse

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Zhen Zhou, Toh

Tuya IPO Initiation: Connected Future

Tencent-backed Tuya has filed for an NYSE IPO to raise proceeds of $1 billion, according to press reports. Overall, we believe that Tuya’s...

Arun George

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