The much-anticipated IPO of Rubrik, which was 20 occasions oversubscribed, generated some $736 million as shares exceeded the preliminary pricing vary sought by the Microsoft-backed tech agency.
The cloud and information startup supplied 23 million shares, all from the corporate, at $32 every, above the vary of $28 to $31 cited within the firm’s S-1 submitting. This places Rubrik’s valuation at $5.61 billion. As not too long ago as 2021, it was valued greater than $4 billion after an funding from Microsoft.
Fifteen banks labored on the providing, with Goldman Sachs the lead underwriter. Shares are set to start buying and selling on the New York Inventory Change Thursday below the ticker “RBRK.”
Rubrik is the most recent tech firm to go public in 2024. Final week, shares of Ibotta, the digital advertising and marketing firm backed by Walmart, rose 17% of their first day of buying and selling, whereas social media platform Reddit gained 48% in March and chip agency Astera Labs rocketed 72% final month.
Based in 2013, Rubrik supplies a platform that helps companies handle and shield their information. Greater than 6,100 purchasers use Rubrik’s software program, together with Goldman Sachs, the Denver Broncos, and the legislation agency Baker & McKenzie. The startup had raised $554.3 million in funding, based on Crunchbase, with traders together with Lightspeed Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greylock Companions. Lightspeed will retain 25.4% of voting inventory whereas Greylock may have 13%, based on the corporate’s regulatory submitting.
Rubrik reported $97.5 million in internet losses for the three months ended Jan. 31, in contrast with about $86 million in losses for a similar time interval in 2023, whereas income soared 61% to $158.7 million.
Ibotta was worthwhile in 2023, reporting $38 million in internet earnings. Reddit and Astera Labs have been unprofitable for almost all of 2023, with each firms reporting constructive internet earnings of their fourth quarters.
For Matt Kennedy, senior IPO strategist at Renaissance Capital, Rubrik’s IPO can be an enormous take a look at of whether or not there’s investor urge for food for fast-growing however unprofitable firms.
“There are dozens of unprofitable tech unicorns ready to go public. So if this does nicely, I’d count on quite a lot of these to maneuver ahead,” Kennedy advised Fortune. “There’s some pleasure over lastly getting that high-growth tech firm. However on the identical time, traders can be fast to tug their cash out in the event that they don’t see a very good end result.”
