IPOs

The US IPO window hasn’t reopened yet, but startups take what they can

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here! Despite the short workweek in many locations, the last few days have been crammed with deal announcements and funding news, although it is too early to tell how much was just on hold before […]

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NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised we haven’t seen a resurgence in startup IPOs yet

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While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that hasn’t happened and isn’t likely to in the next two months. NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised. Friedman said at Axios’s BFD event on Tuesday that while on paper the public markets have been experiencing a spectacular year

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Not all startups mourn IPOs, but liquidity still must flow

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Several startups announced new rounds this week without disclosing their valuation. This doesn’t mean that these were down rounds, but rather it confirms that our collective focus

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Wiz hopes to hit $1B in ARR in 2025 before an IPO, after turning down Google’s $23B

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Wiz co-founder and VP of R&D Roy Reznik told CNBC last week that the company has hit $500 million in annual recurring revenue, and plans to double that in 2025 to $1 billion. He also reiterated that the $1 billion-mark is a prerequisite for the IPO that Wiz promised employees when it walked away from

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Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says the benefits of being a private company are growing

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Ro co-founder and CEO Zachariah Reitano said while he’d “never say never” about potentially taking the seven-year-old telehealth company public, he thinks the benefits of being a private company are growing. Reitano dodged multiple questions from Axios reporter Dan Primack about whether or not the company has plans to IPO in the near term —

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AI for landlords, Grok-2 unleashed, and the latest attempt at AI regulation

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There was lots going on in startup-land, as always, and the Equity crew had a blast breaking it all down. Kirsten Korosec, Mary Ann Azevedo and Devin Coldeway kicked off this Friday’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast with a discussion of WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, seeking an initial public offering in the United

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Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025

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This year already proved that startups are willing to go public in a less-than-ideal market — and get rewarded for it, too. But bankers, lawyers and investors said the recent IPO successes aren’t enough to foster more than a dozen tech IPOs this year. “I don’t think we will have the floodgates open like I

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