Tech IPOs Are an Endangered Species and Getting Older

Tech IPOs Are an Endangered Species and Getting Older

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Peter Walker

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February 17, 2026

When tech companies do IPO, they are older than ever and far less likely to be profitable on day one—private markets continue to absorb what used to be...

LinkedIn: Tech IPOs Are an Endangered Species and Getting Older

Tech IPOs are an endangered species.

And when they happen, the companies are older.

And much less likely to be profitable on Day 1.

Private markets are eating public ones.

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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