Reddit files for IPO after a year of meme stock madness

Reddit goes public, the web aggregating social platform introduced early on Thursday.

In a brief weblog publish, Reddit stated it had filed for an IPO with US regulators. It didn't say what number of shares within the firm can be on provide, or at what value.

The general public share providing will happen after a evaluation by the US Securities and Change Fee, the corporate stated.

"We're in a quiet interval, and for regulatory causes, we can not say something additional," it added.

The 16-year-old content material aggregator has undergone important development in 2021, asserting plans to double its employees headcount to 1,400 and increasing its presence within the UK, Australia and Canada.

It performed a significant position on this yr's frenzy over so-called "meme shares," because the r/wallstreetbets group on the positioning pushed shares in retailers, together with US online game vendor GameStop, to unprecedented heights.

In August, Reddit introduced it had made $100 million (€88.4 million) in promoting income over a three-month interval for the primary time. Earlier this yr, the corporate employed its first chief monetary officer, Drew Vollero, who beforehand led Snapchat proprietor Snap via its personal IPO.

Plans for a $700 million (€618 million) funding spherical additionally introduced in August noticed the corporate valued at over $10 billion (€8.8 billion).

As with many different corporations within the tech sector, Reddit has benefited because the COVID-19 pandemic pushed extra folks on-line.

Earlier this month the social platform revealed important year-on-year development in person exercise, with the variety of posts by redditors rising 19 per cent in 2021.

Reddit had roughly 52 million every day lively customers and over 100,000 communities, or subreddits, as of October final yr, the corporate stated.

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