Silicon Valley’s largest start-ups to shun IPOs in 2025

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Silicon Valley’s largest start-ups to shun IPOs in 2025 - Financial Times

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WeWork’s $47bn valuation, obtained during a SoftBank-led funding round in 2019, plummeted after it launched its roadshow ahead of a planned IPO, for instance.“It feels as though the VC firms are in a parallel universe which has no relation to the real world,” said the head of investment at a US foundation that invests in multiple venture firms, who asked not to be named.“They have their own valuations, their own liquidity, which is self-generated.

They “have so much access to capital at so much scale there isn’t an incentive driving them to go public”, said Kelly Rodriques, chief executive of Forge Global, a marketplace for trading private company stock.

While smaller groups — including a number of private equity-backed start-ups — are expected to take advantage of buoyant US equity markets to float this year, the biggest tech start-ups, particularly those in AI, are under little pressure to follow.