Rivian raised $2.5 billion in a pre-IPO round in July. Those companies all routinely tapped venture investors for hefty amounts of capital on their way to the public exchanges. Coinbase is valued above $70 billion, Roblox is over $50 billion and Affirm topped $40 billion. At least 21 tech companies to debut in 2021 are worth over $10 billion.

exchanges this year and, by the standards of its peers, Backblaze is a micro-cap. Over 100 technology companies have listed on U.S. Backblaze shares climbed 24% in their debut on Thursday and another 12% on Friday, lifting the price to $22.31 and giving the company a market cap of around $650 million. In the year that ended June 30, Backblaze's revenue totaled $59.9 million, with second quarter sales up about 17% to $16.2 million, according to the company's prospectus.īackblaze raised just $100 million in its offering, less than one-twentieth the amount raised this year by companies including GlobalFoundries, Robinhood and Bumble. In an era of blockbuster market debuts preceded by astronomical private financing rounds, Backblaze is a throwback to a time when sub-billion-dollar companies routinely went public to raise capital and build their profile in an effort to win the trust of customers.

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