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Roblox to Go Public Via Direct Listing, Not IPO

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Ross Matican
· · Source: The Information

Roblox, a gaming and game creation platform, announced Wednesday evening that it plans to file paperwork with the SEC for a direct listing, and that it just raised $520 million in a Series H funding round led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. Its latest valuation is $29.5 billion, a sharp premium to its $4 billion private market valuation in February 2020. Roblox had filed...

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