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INSTACART’S IPO SURGES AS THE GROCERY DELIVERY COMPANY GOES FROM THE SUPERMARKET TO THE STOCK MARKET

Instacart delivered in its stock market debut.

The grocery delivery company’s shares __ priced at $30 per share ahead of the IPO __ hit a peak of $42.95 Tuesday in the first few minutes of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. They finished the day up 12.3% at $33.70, giving the company a market value of more than $11 billion.

At Instacart’s San Francisco headquarters, CEO Fidji Simo and other executives celebrated the IPO by ringing a bell shaped like the company’s carrot logo. Around 1,000

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