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    SoftBank-backed Coupang surges to over $100 billion valuation in debut

    March 12, 20211 Min Read
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    FILE PHOTO: Signage for SoftBank Group Corp. is displayed outside one of the company's stores in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, May 9, 2016. SoftBank on July 18, 2016, agreed to buy ARM Holdings Plc for 24.3 billion pounds ($32 billion), securing a slice of virtually every mobile computing gadget on the planet and future connected devices in the home. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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    SoftBank Group Corp-backed Coupang was valued at around $109 billion in its market debut on Thursday after South Korea’s largest e-commerce company raised around $4.6 billion in the biggest U.S. initial public offering this year.

    Coupang’s stock soared 81% to open at $63.50. The company had priced 130 million shares sold in the IPO at $35 per share, higher than the marketing range $32-$34 per share, giving the Seoul-headquartered e-commerce giant a market value of $60 billion.

    Founded in 2010 by Korean-American billionaire Bom Suk Kim, Coupang rose to prominence after launching its guaranteed same-day or next-day delivery service in the East Asian country. SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund owns 35.1% of Coupang.

    The IPO is the biggest in the United States this year, surpassing the $2.15 billion raised by dating app Bumble Inc. It also marks a jump in Coupang’s valuation, which was pegged at $9 billion in a fundraising round in 2018, according to Pitchbook.

    Read more at Reuters

    By Chibuike Oguh, Joshua Franklin, Joyce Lee

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