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Snowflake, SumoLogic, Asana, Unity all filed S-1's today.

4 relatively large, well known companies filing IPO's today.

and JFrog (I don't know anything about them, but the S-1 was posted on HN today).

And AirBnB is much earlier in the process but has filed confidentially.

If Airbnb filed their S-1 last week, and these companies filed their S-1s today, then wouldn't Airbnb be further along in the process and not "much earlier"?

They filed confidential paperwork - the actual public S-1 will come months later. E.g. Asana had confidentially filed back in February.

Maybe a surge in IPOs for HN crowd? An IPO of a construction company won't make the front page but Asana does. Maybe VCs increase pressure to cash out or management is motivated by other successful IPOs of the recent past.

I don't know any hard evidence to say if overall IPOs increased but the examples named in this thread are very biased towards tech.

Have they? This is the first time I've noticed a surge of IPOs this year.