Micromobility firm Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO.
The nine-year-old scooter and bike firm, which is backed by Uber, bought 6.68 million shares at $25 every, on the mid-point of its $24 to $26 worth vary. Shares began buying and selling on the Nasdaq inventory change beneath the ticker “LIME” on Wednesday afternoon, jumping round 9% within the first hour.
Lime has been contemplating an IPO for years. In 2021, following a $523 million funding spherical, CEO Wayne Ting informed TechCrunch the corporate was eyeing an IPO in 2022. He re-heated the concept in 2023, saying that Lime was nonetheless ready for the right market conditions.
The long-awaited IPO pegs Lime’s valuation at round $1.66 billion, simply shy of the worth fellow micromobility firm Fowl obtained when it merged with a special purpose acquisition company in 2021.
Lime wants the funds. In its IPO submitting in Could, the corporate expressed “substantial doubt” that it might proceed as a going concern. Lime mentioned it wants the IPO proceeds to pay round $1 billion in liabilities, greater than half of which is due by the top of this yr. With out an IPO, Lime informed potential buyers, it might want to seek out different sources of financing.
Lime is driving that monetary edge as a result of the micromobility trade has confirmed to be pretty brutal over the previous couple of years, even within the good occasions. Fowl needed to file for chapter safety and restructure after it went public, and different rivals have both merged (Tier and Dott), been delisted from main exchanges (Micromobility.com), or gone out of enterprise solely (Superpedestrian).
Amid the chaos, Lime has managed to enhance its income over the previous couple of years. It generated $521 million in 2023, $686.6 million in 2024, and $886.7 million final yr. The corporate additionally trimmed its losses from $122.3 million in 2023, to only $33.9 million in 2024, although that determine edged again up in 2025 to $59.3 million.
That development has come largely from Lime’s capacity to scale globally. It now operates in 230 cities throughout 29 international locations. However the firm can be considerably depending on Uber, which owns 24% of Lime, and accounted for greater than 14% of its income final yr. (Uber permits individuals to e-book Lime rides by means of its app in some cities.)
This story has been up to date with details about Lime’s inventory beginning to commerce.
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