✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-19

The comeback of tech IPOs

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The biggest story this week was the return of tech IPO activity.

Techmeme: Pattern, which helps brands optimize their sales on online marketplaces, closes up 11.6% at $15.63 per share in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $300M in its IPO (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

By Annie Palmer / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Netskope closes up 18.37% at $22.49 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an $8.6B market value, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO (Bloomberg)

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

For perspective, it has been a busy tech IPO year so far.