Klarna’s CEO says he’s ‘nervous’ to take the company public. But the public market for BNPL companies actually feels pretty strong at the moment.
Which VCs are set to make a killing in GitLab’s IPO
The GitLab debut is set to make a lot of funds material coin.
Divining the real value of my favorite fintech sub-niche
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading.
The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising
Startups are raising record sums around the world, thanks to several contributing factors. But the free ride could be ending.
What could stop the startup boom?
Similar to how certain macroeconomic conditions have provided a long-term boost, a reversal of those conditions could do the opposite.
Forge’s SPAC deal is a bet on unicorn illiquidity
The total addressable market that Forge serves is growing by the day, with more and more unicorns being born and a steady drumbeat of unicorn IPOs doing little to clear the decks.
Toast looks toward $18B valuation in upcoming IPO
If you were considering buying into Toast’s IPO in hopes of having a say in its future, don’t. You won’t.
What Amplitude’s choice to direct list says about its products, growth and value
The recent round followed by a quick direct listing means that we’ll be able to mock Sequoia if Amplitude winds up worth more than $4.15 billion when it floats.
Inside Freshworks’ IPO filing
Let’s dig into the company’s historical growth, track Freshworks’ changing profitability profile and check to see if its revenue quality is improving over time.
5 takeaways from Toast’s S-1 filing
Startup founders, take a minute to track Toast’s revenue growth per category over time. Sometimes diversified offense is functional defense, it turns out.