Opening Share Price: $9.70

Current Share Price: $21.22

Truecar went public in May, as the air was coming out of the tech market. It did not disappoint however, with shares rising 12 percent the first day.

Offering Price: $9

Opening Share Price: $11.40

Current Share Price: $24.54

Joining the fray of startups focused on alleviating fixed costs for other companies, Zendesk has helped revolutionize customer service and help desk functions, turning them into ad hoc services themselves, available via the Web. It was among top 10 best-performing IPOs this year, according to Renaissance Capital.

Offering Price: $16

Opening Share Price: $32.43

Current Share Price: $15.70

The company has revolutionized the sleepy and, some would say moribund, world of coupons by moving it online and into the mobile environment. Founded by Steven Boal in 1998, Coupons.com took no institutional money until 2011. Its share price took off for a few months after the offering, but has since returned to more discounted prices.

Offering price: $26

Opening Share Price: $40

Current Share Price: 35.56

The mobile and online food ordering service, which connects diners with thousands of takeout restaurants nationally, actually combines the businesses of Chicagos GruHub and New Yorks Seamless following a merger in 2013. At the time, both companies had independently pursued plans for IPOs. As a combined entity, GruHub had a strong opening, with shares climbing 50 percent out of the gate, only to close down about 17 percent by the end of the day. The stock has similarly bounced around all year, trading as high as $45 in August, before easing down to its current level. Prospects are still strong for GrubHub, which leads in the online food ordering space.

Offering Price: $20

Opening Share Price: $26.63

Current Share Price: $25.67

Like Lending Club, OnDeck proved that theres a strong market for alternative financing in small business loans, with shares jumping nearly 40 percent on its first day of trading. Unlike Lending Club, OnDeck, finances loans through bank warehouse lines and by selling loans to the second market. OnDeck plans to disrupt bank lending to entrepreneurs by using state of the art technology to make decisions within minutes.

Offering Price: $23

Opening Share Price: $27

Current Share Price: $33.79

Although Richard Bransons space exploration company, Virgin Galactic, is having severe problems stemming from a crash of a space ship that was to have ferried consumers to outer space for short joy rides next year, Virgin America is a lot closer to earth. Bransons low-cost airline, is more than coasting along, however. Its share price is up, as its benefitting from a sharp drop in oil prices. Bransons legendary dash and charisma no doubt factor in too. He owns nearly a quarter of the company.

Funding from IPO: $425 million

Offering Price: $24

Opening Share Price: $31

Current Share Price: $57.09

Charismatic chief executive Nick Woodman started GoPro because he wanted a device that didnt exist in 2002, a high-performance, high definition camera that was also highly portable. His vision succeeded and GoPros can be seen everywhere today.

3. King Digital Entertainment

Funding from IPO: $500 million

Offering Price: $22.50

Opening Share Price: $20.50

Current Share Price: $16.50

Every big IPO year needs a big clunker too. King, maker of the Candy Crush Saga game for mobile phones shows the dangers of being a one-hit wonder. The colorful game involving candied fruit slices provides 80 percent of the companys revenues, and its had a hard time convincing investors its capable of branching out. Though it did rake in half a billion dollars from its offering.

2. Lending Club

Funding from IPO: $870 million

Offering Price:$15

Opening Share Price:$23.43

Current Share Price: $26.94

Proving that 2014 is also the year of alternative finance, Lending Club, the peer to peer lending marketplace, hauled in nearly a billion dollars by tapping public markets. Started in 2007 by Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club originally let peers provide low-cost financing to their peers, but it has since morphed into a model that lets institutional investors do the same thing.