Click to view a price quote on DOCU. : The 188 IPOs that have taken place in 2018 raised more than $45 billion, more than 20% more than at this time last year according to data from Renaissance Capital. And they included billion-dollar tech names such as Dropbox (DBX) , Eventbrite (EB) and DocuSign (DOCU) . In 2019, even larger IPOs are on the horizon, with giant companies like Uber, Lyft and Palantir preparing to go public provided that the markets hold up.