Close to 100 companies recently have filed confidentiality with the Securities and Exchange Commission for initial public offerings and plan to list on Nasdaq, according to Adena Friedman, Nasdaq’s chief executive.

Friedman made that startling comment in a wide-ranging interview with Barron’s, a fellow Dow Jones Group title to Financial News, at the CES tech trade show in Las Vegas. If she’s right, it would suggest a major rebound for the IPO market is in the offing.