Tech iPos Bullish, Figma, Circle roaring after “Years of Prohibition”

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Brandon Blumer, chairman of Bullish and Tom Farley, CEO of Bullish, Bullish a Octeng Octembrency Operator, positions with staff during the IPO of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, USA, August 13

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Thehe Bullish IPO this week is more important, perhaps because of the name of the company.

When the shares of Peter Till -backed Cryptocurrency More than doubled from the gate on Wednesday before finishing the day by 84%, it was the last sign that Tech IPO Bulls was returning to the business.

During July the design software provider Figma More than a triple on its New York Stock Exchange Debutand a month earlier shares of a crypto company Circle They poured 168% on their first day of the Big Council.

Wall Street has been waiting for a long time for this.

Three years ago, steep inflation and interest raised effectively closed the market for public offersS The technical stocks that are increasing and private capital have dried up, forcing the start -up money to reject their attention from growth and to efficiency and profitability.

It seems that the obstacle loosens earlier this year when companies like Stubhub and Clear filed their prospectuses, but then President Donald Trump The markets broke out in April with its plans for extensive tariffs. The road shows were placed indefinitely.

Since then, the President’s tariff program has been stabilizing a little and money for investors has been poured into technology, pushing NASDAQ to record levels, which is over 40% this year in April. Optimism is increasing that the huge lag of high -ranking startup companies will continue to be cleared as executive directors and venian Get confidence that public markets will meet their highest level of companies.

Before the Figma debut, President of NYSE Lynn Martin said CNBC’s “Squawk on the street” This huge demand for this supply can “open the floods” for the rest of the market. And earlier this week the NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman told “Fast Money” that in the second half of this year there is a “very healthy list” of companies who want IPO to strive for IPO before the festive season.

“I met with many CEOs, preparing to think what they want in the public markets and where they go,” Friedman said.

There are more than two dozens supported by American technology of US technology worth $ 10 billion or more as per CB InsightsS StubHub has updated its prospectusAssuming it soon offers an offer.

“The IPO window is open,” says Rick Hitzman, a partner at Firdmary Firstmark, in an interview with CNBC’s “final bell” this week. “You have seen in the industry, widely based IPO support and therefore advise the companies we invest in to prepare and become public.”

The IPO window is open and we advise companies to publish: Rick Heitzmann on Firstmark Capital

Another big topic among VC and bankers is the regulatory environment.

Thehe Biden The administration took heat from start -up investors to destroy large acquisitions, mostly attributed to Lina It is perceived in a heavy hand at the Federal Commerce Committee, while failing to ease the restrictions that say they make less attractive companies to become public than to remain private.

Paul Atkins, the new head of SEC, said in July He wants to “make an IPO again great” by eliminating some of the obstacles to the complexity of disclosure and the risk of litigation. He did not offer many specific recommendations.

Friedman told CNBC that the first conversation he had with Atkins after he took over the job was to make the companies more easier and more attractive to publish publicly.

“The conversation has been constructive on many fronts, considering the requirements of disclosure, the proxy process, other things that really make it difficult for companies to be public and to navigate public markets,” Friedman said. “He is as interested as we, so we hope we make him great actions.”

In addition to the big profits made by bulls, Figma and Circle, public markets welcomed the online banking provider Bell with a 37% profit Last month and trade app Etooro with a 29% pop In May. The healthcare market has seen two IPO: Trouser health and Fascinating healthS

But the roaring debuts of Circle and Figma sparked a new bull market for IPO. Figma jump 250% In IPO the day after Pricing shares a dollar in front of Updated rangeS The Circle value is more than doubled after the stable publisher and is also priced above the expected range.

Figma celebrates its original public offering on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025.

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This type of price actions assigned a debate before the last IPO boom in 2020 and 2021, when a risk capitalist was throat make the case These big ones from the first day suggest deliberately wrong prices that hurt the company and carry easy money for new investors. The throat stands for direct lists, where companies list shares at a price that effectively corresponds to demand.

As Figma was hitting the market, the throat returned to it, referring to the big profits as an “expected and completely deliberate” result that favors the customers of the main investment banks

“They bought it at $ 33 last night and can sell it today for over $ 90 wroteS In a subsequent post, he said, “I would be glad to see DLS replacing the iPos-it just makes sense to match the demand/supply. But Wall Street may just be too addicted to the mass customers of customers.”

Buyer of Lise, founder of IPO Class V Group IPO Advisory Company, wrote In LinkedIn, the company gets to call where the shares value and that thought is put into the process. Also, IPO companies sell only a small percentage of outstanding shares – in the case of Figma approximately 7% – so if they achieve results, “very likely there will be many future opportunities for selling more shares at higher prices.”

This is already happening.

Circle said this week that it is supply Another 10 million shares in secondary offering. And on Friday Leslie Picker by CNBC reported that bankers for CoreweaveWhich is 150% since March IPO, organizes some block deals this week.

But the buyer warns that technology markets have a history of overheating. Although there is always a difference between what the institutions are ready to pay in IPO and what lush retail investors they will pay, it is currently “a gap, as we haven’t really seen since 1999, 2000,” the buyer told CNBC, adding “and of course, we know how this is done.”

Compared to Dot-COM bubbles, businesses that publish publicly now have significant revenue and real foundations, but that doesn’t mean IPO pop is sustainable, she said.

“It’s almost like a few years of ban,” the buyer said, citing a period before a century ago when alcohol was banned in the US, “people in some cases drink excess in the IPO market.”

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