Figma is open for trading with the initial price around $85. The price has been halted at $93.50.
Figma’s IPO was priced at $33 per share, raising approximately $1.2 billion and giving the company a valuation of $19.3 billion. This brings it nearly in line with the $20 billion valuation from Adobe’s failed acquisition attempt. There was a near 40:1 oversubscribed offering. The run rate for revenues this year is $1B with thoughts of $1.5B next year.
Figma is a cloud-based design platform that enables real-time collaboration for UI/UX design, prototyping, and developer handoff. Its core tools include Figma Design, FigJam (for whiteboarding and brainstorming), and Dev Mode, which bridges the gap between design and engineering by exposing code-ready elements. The platform is widely used by designers, product teams, and developers to streamline the digital design workflow without the need for software installation
At $85-$90, that puts the market capitalization at around $50-55 billion.That is about 30X next years projected sales.
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Databricks: A top enterprise data platform combining cloud analytics, AI, and big data tools used by Fortune 500 companies.
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Anthropic: A major player in generative AI, developing large language models and competing directly with firms like OpenAI.
This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.