GeoOp, whose software allows small businesses to manage their workforce, soared 140 per cent in its debut on the NZAX after it sold shares in a private offering, raising $10 million to fund its global growth.
The shares first traded at $2.40, having sold at $1 each in an offering the company says was more than three times oversubscribed, and has been volatile in trading since then, trading as low as $1.38, before settling at $2, valuing the company at $54.5 million.
That compares to a listing value of about $27 million. The company had revenue of $124,000 in the year ended March 31, for a loss of $312,000, according to its last annual report.
Chief executive Leanne Graham said users of its software, which costs $20 per mobile user, climbed to 4500 in September from 1600 in January. About 55 per cent of its customers are in Australia and about 17 per cent in North America.
Graham owns about 23 per cent of the company, according to Companies Office records, behind Nicholas and Russell Bartlett with 24 per cent. Chairman Mark Weldon, former CEO of NZX and now a central Otago wine maker, owns 6.6 per cent via his company Terra Sancta Ltd.
