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On Thursday afternoon, app-enabled, on-demand delivery service provider filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) to take its shares to public markets, according to an from the company.

Postmates said in the statement that the “size and price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.” Now that the U.S. Federal Government is open (for now) the SEC will engage Postmates in a rigorous review process, after which point the company can go public.

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Postmates is opting for a more traditional route to IPO鈥攖he road show, underwriters, etc.鈥攗nlike some companies (like Slack) which may pursue a direct listing on public exchanges. Bloomberg that Postmates hired and as its lead underwriters for this IPO. JP Morgan the lead underwriter for another on-demand, app-driven, transportation service: .

Its latest round sheds some light on what Postmates could be valued if and when its shares hit the market. The company’s most recent funding round鈥攁nnounced roughly one month ago鈥攃ame in the form of , which valued the delivery company at $1.85 billion.

To date, Postmates has in combined venture capital funding. Postmates’s prior investors include , , , , , and .

The company was founded in March 2011. Postmates participated in AngelPad’s accelerator program in its spring 2011 batch. According to Crunchbase data, AngelPad followed on its initial investments through . Postmates would be AngelPad’s first portfolio company to exit via an IPO.

Since launch, Postmates it’s scaled to nearly 3,000 U.S. municipalities, as well as to Mexico, and connects a quarter of a million merchants with customers who want goods delivered. Postmates has an exclusive delivery partnership with Apple Inc. and also facilitates grocery delivery for Walmart.

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