Ambiq Micro, a 15-year-old producer of energy-efficient chips for wearable and medical gadgets, closed its first day of buying and selling on Wednesday at $38.53 a share, a 61% improve from the $24 IPO worth the corporate set the day gone by.
The success of the IPO alerts robust investor demand within the public marketplace for new small-cap corporations benefiting from AI innovation.
Ambiq closed its first day as a public firm with a valuation of $656 million (excluding worker choices). This represents a major improve from its final personal funding valuation of $450 million in 2023, in line with PitchBook.
Ambiq has pitched itself as well-positioned to capitalize on the expansion pushed by AI. “As a result of we’re so low vitality, we will put extra intelligence and extra AI on board” of edge processors, the corporate’s CTO Scott Hanson instructed TechCrunch.
For the three months that ended March 31, Ambiq posted a internet lack of $8.3 million in opposition to revenues of $15.7 million, the corporate’s S1 submitting reveals. The Q1 outcomes mark a slight enchancment from the primary quarter of 2024, when the corporate reported a $9.8 million loss on $15.2 million in income.
Kleiner Perkins and EDB Investments, a Singaporean state-backed entity, are the biggest outdoors backers of Ambiq, in line with the submitting.
Wen Hsieh, who was a basic associate at Kleiner Perkins till 2023, first backed Ambiq when the corporate raised its Collection C in 2014. Hsieh additionally invested in Ambiq after he launched his personal enterprise agency, Matter Enterprise Companions, two years in the past.
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