Tech founders are shunning IPOs after extended market lull: Techstars

Tech founders are shunning IPOs after extended market lull: Techstars

Pedestrians pass the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Silicon Valley is known for producing tech businesses that start in garages and turn into massive publicly traded companies ubiquitously known across the globe. From Oracle and Microsoft to Google and Facebook, the public … Read more

Morgan Stanley sees 10 to 15 more tech IPOs in 2024, better 2025

Morgan Stanley sees 10 to 15 more tech IPOs in 2024, better 2025

Following a long period of waiting, “the IPO market’s back.” That’s according to Colin Stewart, Morgan Stanley’s global head of technology equity capital markets. In an interview with CNBC’s “TechCheck” on Monday, Stewart said 10 to 15 more tech companies could go public before the end of 2024, with an even “better year” in store … Read more

Rubrik files to go public as tech companies see thawing of IPO market

Rubrik files to go public as tech companies see thawing of IPO market

Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of data security software company Rubrik. Sinha previously backed cloud management company Nutanix. Greylock Partners Rubrik, a nine-year-old data security software vendor, filed to go public on Monday, the latest venture-backed company to move toward the public market after an extended lull dating back to late 2021. The Silicon Valley … Read more

Big week for tech IPOs like Reddit boosts Morgan Stanley after lull

Big week for tech IPOs like Reddit boosts Morgan Stanley after lull

The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Reddit, Inc. (NYSE: RDDT) to celebrate its initial public offering. To honor the occasion, Snoo, rings the Opening Bell®. NYSE Wall Street’s tech IPO bankers may finally have a reason to break out the champagne after an extended drought was broken up this week with the market debuts of … Read more

(RDDT) starts trading on NYSE

(RDDT) starts trading on NYSE

Reddit shares jumped as much as 70% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. … Read more

Amazon gets boost from 72% pop in AI company Astera Labs’ IPO

Amazon gets boost from 72% pop in AI company Astera Labs’ IPO

In this photo illustration, Astera Labs logo is seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen.  Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy loves to talk about how much his company is benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom. On Wednesday, Amazon got an AI boost in a … Read more

Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as debut nears

Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as debut nears

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Sarah Gilbert spends a lot of time on Reddit. For the past three years, she’s helped moderate the r/AskHistorians subreddit, which has 2 million members and was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation. She’s been a lurker on the forum since 2012. But when the subject turns to … Read more

Tech stocks wrap up 2023 rally after last year’s slump

Tech stocks wrap up 2023 rally after last year’s slump

The Nasdaq MarketSite in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech stocks rebounded from a disastrous 2022 and lifted the Nasdaq to one of its strongest years in the past two decades. After last year’s 33% plunge, the tech-heavy Nasdaq finished 2023 … Read more