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Reddit’s prospects as it barrels toward a stock market listing have a lot more to do with relationships with AI vendors such as OpenAI than one might expect. In its…
No one expects every startup worth $1 billion to be ready to go public, but the collection of billion-dollar startups that are ready to list is larger than you might…
The Vision Fund was always a funded vision; today we learned just how cloudy that perspective is proving.
While the IPO is characterized as the pinnacle for venture-backed startups, far more companies see successful exits via an M&A process than by going public.
TikTok rival Triller has confidentially submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission paperwork for an initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The announcement comes as the…
Data intelligence startup Near, with 1.6B anonymized user IDs, lists on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $1B market cap; raises $100M
The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form…
We speak with about 200 private companies every quarter, and the vast majority of our conversations over the last three months have revolved around one question: What am I worth…
Binance.US raises over $200M in first seed round, hitting a $4.5B valuation as it preps for IPO
Binance.US raised over $200 million in its first external funding round, putting its pre-money valuation at $4.5 billion as it builds out a roadmap for an initial public offering (IPO),…
For founders, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening.
For most products, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you’re planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance.
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Intel’s plan to free Mobileye brings welcome IPO heat check
The Mobileye IPO really does matter for the startup market’s largest players, and a host of smaller, less well-known tech startups that would also like to exit, thank you very much.
EV battery maker LG Energy Solution becomes South Korea’s second most valuable firm in IPO debut
South Korea’s electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution made a successful market debut on Thursday. The market capitalization of LG Energy stood at $98.3 billion (118 trillion KRW) at…
For those of you in search of a single number, using a simple share count, Justworks could be worth more than $2 billion at the top end of its current…
Let’s talk about public offerings now that the IPO season is essentially behind us.
SenseTime, one of China’s most valuable AI solution providers, is putting its $767 million public listing on hold, the company said Monday. The announcement came three weeks after the Hong…
The larger context for SenseTime’s debut is that it is going public after the Chinese government cracked down on a number of tech sectors in the country.
China is considering removing the VIE loophole that allowed Chinese companies to list in the United States, closing a method by which local companies could access foreign capital.
What’s going on with an IPO that was expected to be a key moment for Brazilian tech companies in particular, and fintech upstarts more broadly?
LG Energy Solution, the battery unit wholly owned by LG Chem, has received preliminary approval for an initial public offering, the Korea Exchange said in a statement on Tuesday. LG…
Braze priced above its IPO range, while UserTesting priced underneath its range. Why?
Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster…
Cloudbeds provides software to lodging businesses that combines previously siloed functions into one integrated, cloud-based tool.
Allbirds’ IPO pricing backs up our view that tech-enabled unicorns going public can hope for an upper-single-digit revenue multiple provided they can make a good case to public market investors.
Shares in Kakao Pay, the fintech unit of South Korea’s largest messaging app operator Kakao Corp, closed up 114% in its market debut on Wednesday. The Ant Financial-backed company ended…
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Backblaze’s IPO a test for smaller tech concerns
Backblaze’s IPO is a harkening back to the time when it was somewhat difficult to convince private-market investors to value your company in the nine-figures, let alone 10.
Kurly, a South Korea-based online grocery startup that provides next-day delivery services across the country, will go public by June next year. The startup, which declined to comment on how…
Udemy’s slowing revenue growth is not bullish for edtech valuations more broadly; the company’s modest resulting revenue multiple is also somewhat beige.
At minimum, we can say that public markets are as welcoming to high-growth SaaS as private markets. And perhaps, with GitLab’s IPO pricing, slightly warmer.
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GitLab raises IPO range, targeting valuation of as much as $11B
At $11.7 billion, GitLab would be worth around 50x its current annualized revenue run rate.
Shares of IsoPlexis, a company creating tools to zoom in on the flurry of protein activity surrounding a single cell, began trading on Friday. The company aims to raise about…
