Fintech Robinhood headed toward IPO, on hunt for a CFO


Menlo Park-based fintech Robinhood is prepping to go public, Techcrunch reports.

"It's something we think is very much in the future,” CEO Baiju Bhatt said at TechCrunch Disrupt onstage. “Being a public company closely aligns with our mission — not in the immediate term, but it's something we're thinking about."

Founded in 2013, the mobile app stock-trading platform is valued at $5.6 billion, after a $363 million series D funding round in May. Led by Russian investor Yuri Milner's DST Group,…

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