Sure, it’s demo day week over at Y Combinator, but that doesn’t mean we have to only discuss the smallest and youngest startups out there. In fact, a small news item from today reinforces our view that the list of companies we’re earmarking as strong possibles for an IPO when the window for public debuts opens is getting rather long.

It’s even more extensive than we know, given the number of late-stage software startups that have likely reached public-company revenue scale and, provided that the economy holds up this year, are likely growing quickly enough to pursue an IPO if they are willing to settle for a smaller valuation.

But the list is long indeed: Several startups that have said they are eyeing a debut are making the right hires or simply have IPO filings in the wings. Let’s talk about who we have in mind.

We’ll start with some new entrants to our list of late-stage startups that are gearing up for a public offering:

Remote makes for a good segue to a group of companies we’ve been writing about quite a bit lately:

Source @TechCrunch