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Twilio, the tech company that had a blockbuster initial public offering last week, is on fire again.

Shares of the company, which makes communications software, were up as  high as 21% in midday trading, at $33 — a new high. They finished the day up about 10%.

The broader market is enjoying a bounce-back on Tuesday, after the massive sell-off triggered by the Brexit vote last week. But Twilio's pop is much bigger than the Nasdaq Composite's 60 point increase, which finished up about 2%.

And Twilio's gains on Tuesday exceeded its lost ground, about 5%, over the past couple of days.

There's no immediate news about Twilio's business. On Monday, CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer endorsed the company, calling it a "unicorn with real value" and noting that the market "may be willing to pay up for growth again."

Here's what the spike looked like early in the day.

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Alexei Oreskovic is the Tech Features Editor for the Business section of Insider.  Based in San Francisco, Oreskovic has covered technology and business for more than 20 years at publications including TheStreet.com, the Industry Standard, and CNET. Before BI, he was a correspondent at Reuters for six years, where he was a finalist for the 2013 Gerald Loeb Award in the Breaking News category for coverage of the Facebook IPO.  As Insider's Tech Features Editor, Oreskovic has overseen groundbreaking investigative stories on Uber, Snapchat, Tesla, Facebook and Google. He was the editor on the Snapchat and Facebook stories that won the Sabew 2018 Larry Birger Young Business Journalist award for former BI reporter Alex Heath. Oreskovic has covered the booms and busts of the tech industry since the first dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, and has interviewed the industry's most important players including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. He has made frequent guest appearances on TV and radio, including CNBC and BBC World News.  Disclosure: Oreskovic has a direct family member who owns shares in Compass.