??? Zynga this evening raised around $1 billion in its IPO, by pricing 100 million shares at $10 per share. That puts a whopping $7 billion valuation on the social gaming giant (of $8.9 billion, if you include unexercised options and warrants), which will begin trading tomorrow on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol ZNGA.
????Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS) served as co-lead underwriters.
????What follows is a list of Zynga's largest insiders, and what they stand to gain:
Mark Pincus
????Zynga's founder and CEO now is now a paper billionaire, with around $1.12 billion of his company's shares. This is on top of the $110 million he received this past March via a share buyback, which actually was priced at $13.95 per share (i.e., higher than the IPO price).
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
????Kleiner invested around $10.4 million into Zynga, and its current stake in now worth around $651 million. This is on top of around $5.97 million in stock it previously generated via a share buyback.
Institutional Venture Partners
????IVP invested around $12.6 million into Zynga, and its current stake is worth over $340 million. It also sold around $24.8 million worth of Zynga stock via the IPO. This is on top of around $22 million in stock it previously generated via a share buyback.
