ZipRecruiter will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe New York Stock Exchange assigned a $18 reference price to ZipRecruiter, which is listing its shares on Wednesday.
With 133.1 million shares outstanding, this translates to a $2.4 billion valuation for ZipRecruiter, an online employment marketplace. This is below the $3 billion to $5 billion valuation ZipRecruiter had reportedly been seeking with the direct listing. The company will trade on the NYSE under the ticker ZIP.
ZipRecruiter itself is not selling shares with the offering and will not receive proceeds from the direct listing. Instead, its shareholders will offer up to 86,598,896 shares of class A common stock for resale, according to its prospectus.
Reference prices typically have no relevance as to how the stock will trade. Rather, they are meant to be a guide that informs the public of recent private trading activity. Coinbase Global (ticker: COIN), which went public in April using a direct listing, received a $250 reference price. Its stock opened at $381. Last week, Squarespace (SQSP) received a $50 reference price and its stock opened at $48.
Founded in 2010, ZipRecruiter is an employment marketplace for people looking for work and businesses seeking employees. More than 2.8 million businesses have used ZipRecruiter to find an employee, while 110 million job seekers have sought employment on the site, the filing said. The company became profitable in 2020, reporting $86 million in income from $6.3 million in losses in 2019. Revenue dropped nearly 3%, to $418 million in 2020, the prospectus said.
ZipRecruiter has raised $219 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. This includes a $156 million round in 2018 co-led by Wellington Management Company and Institutional Venture Partners, or IVP. IVP owns the biggest chunk of ZipRecruiter’s voting power—21.1%.
Several shareholders have registered their class A common stock, which they may or may not sell via the direct listing, the prospectus said. IVP has registered about 22.7 million class A shares, while Wellington is offering roughly 1.9 million shares. ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegel has put up 10.5 million class A shares.
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