Bumble's $14 billion date: Blackstone-backed dating app soars on market debut

The company’s shares opened at $76 on the Nasdaq, well above its initial public offering price of $43 per share.

Stellar first-day trading gains such as these are likely to fuel criticism from some venture capital investors, including Benchmark’s Bill Gurley, who has argued that investment banks underprice offerings so their investor clients can win big in first trades. Austin, Texas-based Bumble was founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, a co-founder of rival app Tinder, which she left earlier that year.

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