@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/netskope-seeks-7point3-billion-valuation-…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialFigma balls
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/03/figma-ceo-dylan-fields-path…
@frankel@mastodon.top#Figma's $300,000 Daily #AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/figma-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-…
@compfu@mograph.socialRemember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M Figma shares for $440M in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/02/figma-ipo-surpris…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/figma-prices-ipo-at-33-above-expected-range.html
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageCryptoGuard: An AI-Based Cryptojacking Detection Dashboard Prototype
Amitabh Chakravorty, Jess Kropczynski, Nelly Elsayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09638 https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-ipo.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712995/figma-make-ai-general-availability-annou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate "enormous value" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-point…
@bert@recurse.socialwho's gonna make the figma of spreadsheets?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndex Ventures is set to receive $11B in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/figm
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Figma's IPO, which could raise as much as $1.2B after Figma raised its range to $30 to $32 per share on July 28, is approaching 40 times oversubscribed (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but its CEO wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and signed off on $33 per share (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fig…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Index Ventures' nearly $100M investment in Figma was worth $2.17B at the initial IPO price, while Greylock's $50M investment was worth $2.03B (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/figma-aims-137-billion…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRelace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
