Where would Snapchat’s $25bn valuation rank among biggest tech IPOs?

Company’s initial public offering will be greater than Google’s but behind Facebook’s

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Snap, the maker of the disappearing photo app Snapchat, has filed publicly for an initial offering, but where does it rank among the biggest tech IPOs of all time?

An IPO (initial public offering) is when a firm offers the sale of stock to the public for the first time by floating the company on the stock exchange.

Snapchat is the first US social media company to go public since Twitter more than three years ago, and it plans to raise as much as $4 billion in the IPO for a market value of $25 billion.

Here are ten of the biggest ever IPOs in the tech sector by valuation:

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Alibaba

Date of IPO: September 2014

Share price at IPO: $68

Valuation as set by IPO: $167.4 billion

Raised at IPO: $25 billion

Current share price: $100.84

Current valuation: $25.62 billion

Facebook

Date of IPO: May 2012

Share price at IPO: $37

Valuation as set by IPO: $104.2 billion

Raised at IPO: $16 billion

Current share price: $130.84

Current valuation: $378 billion

Google

Date of IPO: August 2004

Share price at IPO: $85

Valuation as set by IPO: $23 billion

Raised at IPO: $1.9billion

Current share price: $818

Current valuation: $558 billion

Twitter

Date of IPO: November 2013

Share price at IPO: $26

Valuation as set by IPO: $14.2 billion

Raised at IPO: $1.8 billion

Current share price: $17.78

Current valuation: $12.7 billion

Groupon

Date of IPO: November 2011

Share price at IPO: $20

Valuation as set by IPO: $12.7 billion

Raised at IPO: $700 million

Current share price: $$3.52

Current valuation: $2 billion

LinkedIn

Date of IPO: May 2011

Share price at IPO: $45

Valuation as set by IPO: $4.3 billion

Raised at IPO: $352.8 million

Current share price: N/A

Current valuation: Company sold to Microsoft last year for $26 billion

Square

Date of IPO: November 2015

Share price at IPO: $9

Valuation as set by IPO: $2.9 billion

Raised at IPO: $243 million

Current share price: $14.36

Current valuation: $5 billion

Match.com

Date of IPO: November 2015

Share price at IPO: $12

Valuation as set by IPO: $2.9 billion

Raised at IPO: $400 million

Current share price: $17

Current valuation: $4.3 billion

Pandora

Date of IPO: June 2011

Share price at IPO: $16

Valuation as set by IPO: $2.6 billion

Raised at IPO: $235 million

Current share price: $13

Current valuation: $3 billion

Etsy

Date of IPO: April 2015

Share price at IPO: $16

Valuation as set by IPO: $1.8 billion

Raised at IPO: $267 million

Current share price: $12.70

Current valuation: $1.47 billion

Colin Gleeson

Colin Gleeson

Colin Gleeson is an Irish Times reporter