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Figma Had a Dazzling IPO. It Could Have Been $3 Billion Better.

Investors and bankers are wondering why the software company didn’t price its shares higher to capitalize on fervent demand.

Lina Kahn is taking a victory lap over the Figma IPO

Former FTC chair Lina Khan celebrated Figma's blockbuster IPO in an X post.

Figma’s 33-year-old cofounder is a former LinkedIn intern who launched the $68 billion Wall Street darling with $100k from Peter Thiel

Fifteen years ago, Dylan Field was a freshman computer science student at Brown University. On Thursday, the company he ...

Design software company Figma more than triples share price in NYSE debut

The big opening pop is the latest indication that the tech IPO market has reopened following a multiyear lull that began in ...

Figma Just Raised $1.2 Billion in Its IPO, Valuing the Company at Nearly $20 Billion

Figma secured a valuation of $19.34 billion, just shy of the $20 billion it was set to fetch in a scrapped acquisition by ...

Iconiq’s Will Griffith explains how his firm celebrated Figma’s IPO and why investors sold shares

Will Griffith is a seed investor in Figma. Investors didn't want to sell millions of shares. He explains why they did it ...

Figma is going public, and the CEO was a fellow at Peter Thiel's foundation

Design software maker Figma's IPO on the NYSE is oversubscribed with share prices nearly triple the IPO's initial $33 per ...

Wall Street’s Risk Appetite Is Back. Just Look at Figma

Wall Street has plenty of appetite for risk even without Fed rate cuts. Figma surged 250 percent in its trading debut ...

Figma’s IPO success could push Canva and these other software companies to go public

D.A. Davidson sees Canva and Databricks as large software companies that could look to take advantage of a hot IPO market and ...