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Fifteen years ago, Dylan Field was a freshman computer science student at Brown University. On Thursday, the company he started in college and now runs, Figma, made its blockbuster debut on the New York Stock Exchange, marking the largest U.S. venture-capital-backed tech IPO in four years.  Figma’s stock surged 250% on its debut, making it the largest first-day pop for …

Figma’s IPO on Thursday minted a $1.8 billion fortune for its cofounder and CEO Dylan Field. Gabriela Hasbun for Forbes When staff at San Francisco-based design startup Figma returned from the Christmas holiday in January 2024, they were met with sobering news. A $20 billion takeover by Adobe, which had been stuck in 15 months of regulatory purgatory, had fallen …

The current gaming industry is filled with remakes and remasters; some of them are faithful to their source material, while others are more open to changing things around when needed. It’s not too often that the original creator of a remade work speaks about a modern reimagining, but recently the co-creator of Crash Bandicoot took to LinkedIn to give his …

Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. For doctors trying to stay abreast of the latest medical breakthroughs, reviewing the latest research is like being shot in the face with a water cannon. A new paper is published every 30 seconds. Trying to …

The surrounding the significantly delayed release of Subnautica 2 continues with Charlie Cleveland, co-founder and of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, announcing that he and unnamed others have filed a lawsuit against , the studio’s parent company since 2021. Cleveland, along with Ted Gill and Max McGuire, were at Unknown Worlds last week by Krafton.  that they had been effectively “pushed out.” …