Avast as a company, and starting an antivirus company

I am trying Avast 8 and really like it. With most people using Avast for free, I wondered how Avast does as a company and how it funds its research and development.

Searching, I quickly found its 2007-2010 financial statements in an NASDAQ IPO filing (I guess it never went through with it.)

While pretty small, it is a very profitable and growing company. Its earnings and cash flows have basically doubled each year from 2007-2010.

Its financial statements are at the end of this NASDAQ filing: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=7928554#A2206699ZF-1_HTM_I1

 

I'm glad they didn't go public. I doubt they'd be the same company they are now. Their free product would probably be pretty gimped compared to now.

 

http://www.opswat.com/about/media/reports/antivirus-september-2012#worldwide-antivirus-vendor-market-share

 

That is the free version.

 

No, that was the "Worldwide Antivirus Vendor Market Share"
AVAST: 17.5%


this is the free version (Worldwide AV Product Market Share) =
avast! Free Antivirus: 13.8%

 

So true.