NEW YORK — Skype, which provides software that lets users make telephone and video calls over the Internet, filed Monday to sell $100 million of shares in a U.S. initial public offering.
The company, whose investors include eBay and private-equity firm Silver Lake of Menlo Park, Calif., didn’t disclose the number of American depositary receipts it plans to sell or the price range of the offering, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Luxembourg-based Skype, which was founded in 2003 and has lost money in four of the past five years, will use the proceeds from the IPO for general corporate purposes, the filing showed.
While filings for initial sales climbed to the highest since 2007 last quarter, half of the U.S. IPOs that have priced since then have left buyers with losses, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
