[danaur]

> Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel.

People have been saying this for months now. Is there evidence that there are disproportionally more IPOs recently?

[natrik]

Snowflake, SumoLogic, Asana, Unity all filed S-1's today.

4 relatively large, well known companies filing IPO's today.

[the_jeremy]

and JFrog (I don't know anything about them, but the S-1 was posted on HN today).

[ummonk]

And AirBnB is much earlier in the process but has filed confidentially.

[seattle_spring]

If Airbnb filed their S-1 last week, and these companies filed their S-1s today, then wouldn't Airbnb be further along in the process and not "much earlier"?

[ummonk]

They filed confidential paperwork - the actual public S-1 will come months later. E.g. Asana had confidentially filed back in February.

[dx034]

Maybe a surge in IPOs for HN crowd? An IPO of a construction company won't make the front page but Asana does. Maybe VCs increase pressure to cash out or management is motivated by other successful IPOs of the recent past.

I don't know any hard evidence to say if overall IPOs increased but the examples named in this thread are very biased towards tech.

[ummonk]

Have they? This is the first time I've noticed a surge of IPOs this year.