BREAKINGVIEWS-Tech FOMO prices at a disturbingly high level

Reuters04-10

(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

By Robert Cyran

NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Destiny Tech100, a newly listed fund with only $53 mln of stakes in private firms such as SpaceX and OpenAI, is now worth about $700 mln. Investors are clearly overeager to get in earlier on hot trends. A multiple of 13 times net asset value resets the Silicon Valley hype bar.

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Destiny Tech100, a closed-end fund designed to hold stakes in 100 privately owned technology companies, made its New York Stock Exchange debut on March 26 at $8.25 a share, a 71% increase from its $4.84 reference price. As of 1430 GMT on April 9, they were trading at $63.82, a 37% decrease from the $100.84 peak a day earlier.

The fund, created by investment firm Destiny XYZ, currently has positions in 23 firms, including OpenAI, SpaceX and Stripe.

(Editing by Jeffrey Goldfarb and Sharon Lam)

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