The online survey platform, which counted Alphabet and Salesforce as investors, floated above its range while increasing the number of shares in the IPO.

SVMK, the US-based owner of online customer research platform SurveyMonkey, floated yesterday in a $180m initial public offering that scored exits for internet technology group Alphabet and enterprise software provider Salesforce.

The company increased the number of shares in the offering from 13.5 million to 15 million and priced them at $12, above the $9 to $11 range it set for the offering earlier this month.

Salesforce agreed to buy another $40m of shares in SurveyMonkey through an adjacent private…

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Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.