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  • Mailchimp email marketing softwareTech

    Mailchimp founders cash out in $12 billion deal with Intuit

    By Liana Baker, Katie Roof, and others
  • NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 29: Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal poses for a portrait at Warby Parker’s Holiday Spectacle Bazaar launch party at a transformed garage at 45 Grand Street on November 29, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images)Finance

    Eyewear brand Warby Parker is the latest company to go public through a direct listing

    By Crystal Tse, Katie Roof, and others
  • SPAIN – 2021/07/08: In this photo illustration, a Robinhood Markets logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Finance

    Robinhood seeks a $35 billion valuation in its IPO

    By Crystal Tse, Annie Massa, and others
  • POLAND – 2021/06/02: In this photo illustration a Robinhood logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Robinhood’s growing crypto business is delaying its IPO plans

    By Katie Roof, Crystal Tse, and others
  • VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – NOVEMBER 28: A customer tries on a pair of eyeglasses frames outside a Warby Parker store on November 28, 2020 in Vancouver, Canada. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced new restrictions and provincewide orders November 19 in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. British Columbians must wear masks in all public indoor areas, avoid non-essential travel and social gatherings. These additional restrictions will be in place until at least December 7, 2020. (Photo by Andrew Chin/Getty Images)Finance

    Warby Parker is considering an IPO

    By Katie Roof, Liana Baker, and others
  • Clubhouse Drop-in audio chat app logo on the App Store is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 6, 2021.Tech

    Twitter held discussions for $4 billion acquisition of Clubhouse

    By Katie Roof, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • POLAND – 2021/02/08: In this photo illustration a Robinhood logo seen displayed on a smartphone with the stock market graphic in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Finance

    Robinhood, darling of the day traders, says it files for IPO

    By Matthew Monks, Katie Roof, and others
  • ANKARA, TURKEY – MARCH 16: In this photo illustration, a computer screen displays the logo of “Microsoft” and a smart phone displays the logo of “European Commission” in Ankara,Turkey on March 16, 2021. (Photo by Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Tech

    Software giant Microsoft looking to buy videogame chat favorite Discord for over $10 billion

    By Dina Bass, Katie Roof, and others
  • Bumble app logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen photographed on Bumble website background. Krakow, Poland on January 15, 2021. Numbers show that the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in people looking for love online on dating apps and websites.Tech

    Dating app Bumble’s IPO gets investor love

    By Crystal Tse, Katie Roof, and others
  • Affirm Holdings Inc. signage on a laptop computer arranged in Little Falls, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Affirm Holdings Inc., which lets online shoppers pay for purchases such as Peloton bikes in installments, plans to go public this month. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Online lender Affirm gets $12 billion valuation in IPO

    By Crystal Tse, Katie Roof, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 11: PayPal Co-Founder & Affirm CEO Max Levchin visits “Countdown To The Closing Bell” at Fox Business Network Studios on June 11, 2019 in New York City.Tech

    Online lender Affirm to be valued as high as $9.2 billion in planned IPO

    By Crystal Tse, Katie Roof, and others
  • Wish signage on a laptop computer arranged in Little Falls, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Online retailer Wish filed to raise as much as $1.1 billion in a initial public offering that will add to the billions of dollars sought this month by consumer technology companies on U.S. exchanges.Tech

    Online retailer Wish falls in 2020’s worst debut for big U.S. IPO

    By Crystal Tse, Katie Roof, and others
  • Airbnb priced its IPO.Tech

    Airbnb gets $47 billion market value in blockbuster IPO

    By Katie Roof, Olivia Carville, and others
  • Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal Inc. and chief executive officer of Affirm Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. The conference brings together thought leaders both from the corporate and investing worlds.Tech

    Online lender Affirm joins year-end rush for IPOs

    By Katie Roof and Bloomberg
  • Airbnb is nearing an IPO filing.Tech

    Airbnb is close to filing for an IPO

    By Olivia Carville, Crystal Tse, and others