{"id":14253,"date":"2026-01-20T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/one-time-hot-insurance-tech-ethos-poised-to-be-first-tech-ipo-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:56:36","slug":"one-time-hot-insurance-tech-ethos-poised-to-be-first-tech-ipo-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/one-time-hot-insurance-tech-ethos-poised-to-be-first-tech-ipo-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"One-time hot insurance tech Ethos  poised to be first tech IPO of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethos Technologies has priced its initial public offering and the expectation is that it will go public on Thursday, making it one of the first tech IPOs of the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it lands in its current price range of $18 to $20 a share, it will enter the day valued at $1.26 billion on the high end &mdash; raising $102.6 million for itself and about $108 million for its selling shareholders. Should investor interest be high, it could wind up pricing higher.&nbsp;That means a bigger valuation and more money raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company, which offers software to sell life insurance, is backed by Sequoia, Accel, Alphabet&rsquo;s venture capital arm GV, Softbank, General Catalyst, and Heroic Ventures. Sequoia and Accel are not selling shares in the IPO, the company disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethos was a rising startup star in the pre-AI era, raising one big round after another through 2021. In its early rounds, it was backed by a who&rsquo;s who of family offices, including those of Will Smith, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Durant, and Jay Z, the company told TechCrunch in 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It hit a $2.7 billion valuation in 2021 having raised $400 million by then, most of it that year. It completed only very small fundraises after that, Pitchbook estimates.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethos is profitable and has been for years, its IPO documents disclose. In the nine months ending September 30, Ethos generated almost $278 million in revenue and just under $46.6 million in net income.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>One-time hot insurance tech Ethos  poised to be first tech IPO of the year<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethos Technologies has priced its initial public offering and the expectation is that it will go public on Thursday, making it one of the first tech IPOs of the year.&nbsp; If it lands in its current price range of $18 to $20 a share, it will enter the day valued at $1.26 billion on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/one-time-hot-insurance-tech-ethos-poised-to-be-first-tech-ipo-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;One-time hot insurance tech Ethos  poised to be first tech IPO of the year&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}