Figma’s IPO Pops, Now Worth $60 Billion
So, Figma finally had its much-anticipated IPO this week. In 2022, I shared that Adobe offered to buy it for $20 billion, but the deal was canceled because regulators wouldn’t approve it. This week, the company began trading on the NYSE.
The company sold shares at $33 a share. But when the stock began trading, it opened at $85 per share, or a $50 billion market capitalization (valuation). As of the writing of this post, the stock is at $122 and the company has a market cap of almost $60 billion.
For more details on the IPO and the above stats, see here.
Time will tell how the stock performs, but so far, the Adobe deal falling through has worked out well for Figma employees and investors. According to Bloomberg (see here), Index Ventures’ stake is worth over $7 billion, Greylock Partners’ stake is worth about $6.75 billion, Kleiner Perkins’s stake is worth about $6.05 billion, and Sequoia Capital’s stake is worth about $3.75 billion. Returns will depend on when, how much, and at what valuation each firm invested, but it appears that all have done well on this investment . . . so far.