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Micromobility company Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO.

The nine-year-old scooter and bike company, which is backed by Uber, sold 6.68 million shares at $25 each, at the mid-point of its $24 to $26 price range. Shares started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker “LIME” on Wednesday afternoon, jumping around 9% in the first hour.

Lime has been considering an IPO for years. In 2021, following a $523 million funding round, CEO Wayne Ting told TechCrunch the company was eyeing an IPO in 2022. He re-heated the idea in 2023, saying that Lime was still waiting for the right market conditions.

The long-awaited IPO pegs Lime’s valuation at around $1.66 billion, just shy of the price fellow micromobility company Bird got when it merged with a special purpose acquisition company in 2021.

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Amid the chaos, Lime has managed to improve its revenue over the last few years. It generated $521 million in 2023, $686.6 million in 2024, and $886.7 million last year. The company also trimmed its losses from $122.3 million in 2023, to just $33.9 million in 2024, though that figure edged back up in 2025 to $59.3 million. (The company reported adjusted gross profit in 2025 of more than $400 million, when discounting costs like depreciation.)

Wow are they actually profitable?

I'll never understand why so many VCs jumped in to spend bazillions of dollars on competing micro-mobility companies...

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I passed on the IPO

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