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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.
Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication for M&A scrutiny
Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups ...
Figma Stock Soars 3x, Now Comes The Hard Part
Interface design software company Figma made a stellar debut on the public markets on Thursday, with its stock soaring more ...
Figma IPO Returns $7 Billion Each to VC Investors Index, Greylock
Danny Rimer, partner at Index Ventures, led Figma’s seed round in 2013, when the company’s stock was valued at just 9 cents ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Figma's blowout debut proves Wall Street forgot how much investors want tech IPOs
Experts say the lack of high-quality tech IPOs has prepared the market to boost new listings beyond what they're ...