The ticket reselling site joins the social chat app Discord and the artificial intelligence company CoreWeave in pursuing a public offering.

StubHub, a ticketing software company, has held talks with bankers in recent weeks about holding an initial public offering before the end of the year, two people with knowledge of the matter said, testing Wall Street’s appetite for a return of tech I.P.O.s.

The talks are preliminary, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. StubHub told Wall Street analysts in an investor meeting on Thursday that it was aiming to raise more than $1 billion in a public offering, according to one attendee.

The tech public offering market has gotten off to a slow start this year. But a growing number of companies appear ready to contemplate public listings, despite market volatility stemming from President Trump’s constant changes to economic policies.

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