Here are the fintech startups that could go public in 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutesCould 2024 be the year for fintech IPOs? Quite possibly, according to F-Prime Capital’s State of Fintech 2024 report.
F-Prime — a VC firm with over $4.5 billion in assets under management that tracks the performance of emerging, publicly traded and privately held financial technology companies — naturally remains bullish on the fintech space, noting that: ‘In aggregate, fintech companies have captured <10% of financial services revenue, yet many scaled private fintech companies are generating $1B+ revenue, still growing rapidly, and expected to list in public markets.'
‘Many sizable companies are now filing or considering going public,’ says F-Prime.
To be clear, when F-Prime refers to fintech, it lumps together financial technology and crypto/blockchain startups. Here at TC, we have tended to separate our coverage of the two, although arguably, crypto undoubtedly falls under the fintech umbrella. For the purposes of this article, though, we are going to focus on just some of the the non-crypto focused companies that have the potential to go public this year.
Whether any of these companies actually take the plunge remains to be seen; we have to say we’d be excited for even just one to file that S-1 to give us greater insight as to just how much money these companies are (or are not) really making.
Apex
As reported by Dallas Innovates last December, ‘two years after attempting to go public via a SPAC merger that valued it at $4.7 billion post-money, Apex is looking to do it the old-fashioned way with a direct SEC filing…The stock trade clearance firm filed confidentially with the SEC, saying that ‘the total number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.’
Stripe
In January of 2023, it was reported that Stripe had set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or to pursue a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer.
Klarna
Lendbuzz
Chime
Rumors have swirled for some time that Chime is eyeing the public markets. Once valued at $25 billion, the neobank was initially, as TickerNerd reports, ‘all set for a March 2022 debut with a valuation between a whopping $35 and $45 billion,’ but then the markets turned. By November 2022, the company had announced it was laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 160 people. Recent reports peg the company’s valuation at closer to $6.7 billion, and it’s possible that Chime could decide to take the plunge this year, considering it was slated for a market entry in late 2023, according to Investing.com.
Plaid
Rippling/Gusto/Deel
Brex/Ramp/Navan
The spend management space is another crowded one with multiple players clamoring for market share, including Brex, Ramp, Airbase, Navan (formerly TripActions) and Mesh Payments, among others. So far, Navan is the only one to go as far as filing confidentially for an IPO — at a $12 billion valuation. But, that was in September of 2022 and we haven’t really heard anything on that front since. Last December, the company laid off 5% of its staff, or 145 people. Brex, which was valued at $12.3 billion two years ago, has had two rounds of layoffs in the past 18 months, and is reportedly working to reduce its cash burn. Ramp raised $300 million at a 28% lower valuation of $5.8 billion last August. So far, it has not laid off staff. When asked about IPO plans, CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman recently told TC that the company was ‘excited to explore the IPO process eventually, but have no active timeline around that.’
Ref: techcrunch
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