Headshot of Clif marriott, partner and co-head of European tech investment banking at Goldman Sachs

Interview

July 3, 2023

Goldman Sachs thinks IPOs could start again next year — but CEOs won't be rushed

Companies are seeking to stay private for longer as being a public company changes the way a founder has to operate a business

The market for tech IPOs may have cooled down globally in the last eighteen months, but tech bankers at Goldman Sachs say they expect to see IPOs make a comeback in the US in the second half of 2023, and in Europe in 2024.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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