LinkedIn Corp filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of Class A shares of up to $175 million.

The company, whose website caters to professionals and has 90 million users, announced its intention to go public on Thursday, but did not immediately reveal the number of shares to be offered or their price range.

LinkedIn's investors include Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that has backed Yahoo, Google, Apple, Cisco Systems and Oracle.

(Reporting by Brenton Cordeiro in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

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