Winklevoss-Backed Gemini Prices IPO at $28/Share, Values Crypto Exchange at More Than $3B

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The integer plus steadfast backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins sold 15.2 cardinal shares, and raised $425 million.

Sep 12, 2025, 11:58 a.m.

Gemini, the crypto speech backed by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, priced its archetypal nationalist offering astatine $28 a share, valuing the institution astatine astir $3.3 billion.

The institution sold 15.2 cardinal shares, raising $425 million, it said successful a Thursday press release. The IPO was 20 times oversubscribed, according to a Reuters report connected Thursday.

The shares volition commencement trading connected the Nasdaq Global Select Market aboriginal Friday nether the ticker awesome GEMI.

The speech is the latest crypto autochthonal steadfast to spell public. Rival speech Bullish (BLSH), the proprietor of CoinDesk, sold shares astatine $37 each past month, supra the expected $32-$33 range.

Gemini said successful a filing p.m. Tuesday that TradFi elephantine Nasdaq (NDAQ), had agreed to bargain $50 cardinal of its Class A communal banal successful a backstage placement astatine a terms adjacent to the IPO price.

Lead underwriters connected the Gemini IPO were Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Cantor.

Gemini raised the terms scope for the IPO to $24-$26, from $17-$19, successful an updated S1 filing earlier successful the week.

Read more: Crypto Exchange Gemini Boosts IPO Price Range to $24-$26 Per Share

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