Figma looks to raise nearly $1 billion as it kicks off its IPO roadshow
Figma looks to offer more than 36 million shares with an expected price range between $25 and $28 a share.
Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.
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Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful IPO
Ibotta’s recent partnerships with brands Exxon, Shell and Walmart helped the company reach profitability.
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Astera Labs’ IPO pops 72% on first day, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high
Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company priced its IPO last night at $36 per share, above its raised price range. Astera’s debut marks the first material technology offering t…
Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024
Founders might have unintentionally given their VCs too much power to block an IPO
Rebecca Szkutak 8 hours
While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are actually part of the probl…
Reddit should go public at $5 billion, according to secondary data
Reddit filed its S-1 last week and is set to take the bold step of being the first venture-backed public listing of 2024. If successful, Reddit has the power to open the IPO window for other late-stage startups anxiously waiting in the wings. But to ha…
Crypto exits remain low but investors remain unfazed
The global venture capital market is enduring a long period of limited exits. Startups are staying private longer, M&A is quiet in part due to sharpened regulatory oversight, and the IPO market remains frozen. This means many historical venture dea…
Deal Dive: A Stripe secondary deal worth paying attention to
A recent secondary stock sale shows that investors are starting to value Stripe above its most recent, slashed, valuation.
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VCs anticipate more exits in 2024 but have no consensus on when or how
It’s been a rough few years for startups looking to exit, but companies, especially late-stage startups, can’t stay private forever. When the exit market didn’t open back up in 2023, as many hoped after a very quiet 2022, investors and founders alike d…
Sources: Lensa AI backer exits Servers.com for $200M
by Mike Butcher
A backer of the Lensa AI app, which sent AI-generated images from Stable Diffusion rocketing into mainstream social media, has just exited a company for a substantial amount of money, say well-placed sources speaking on the condition of anonymity. CloudOne Digital has today announced its acquisition of Servers.com, a provider of ‘bare metal’ services with […]
Will the corporate venture boom lead to an M&A frenzy?
by Anna Heim
Why recent CVC activity combined with the current climate for startups could result in a more active M&A market.
As the pandemic wanes, VCs are investing less in health-focused startups
by Anna Heim
Riffing through CB Insights data regarding global VC investment into health tech, the word we came away with was “retreat.”