IPOs
Ola Electric, India’s largest electric two-wheeler maker, saw its shares rise as much as 20% on its public debut on Friday, making it the biggest listing among Indian firms in…
Zeekr’s market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers.
News that Jack Dorsey is out at Bluesky caused a stir this weekend. After all, Dorsey is a former Twitter co-founder and CEO, so his investment of…
Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.
This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 billion in 2019.
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Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024
While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are actually part of the problem. A lot of standard VC deal terms give investors the ability to block an IPO or acquisition if they didn’t think the timing or price was right,…
If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would have said yes. We…
Some investors are more optimistic about M&A in 2024, while others think we will see a rebound in the IPO market.
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Is Instacart’s new IPO price range justified?
In its S-1, Instacart describes itself as a “grocery technology company.” But does that warrant a tech valuation?
We asked Latin American investors where they are placing their bets, when they think Brazil’s IPO window might reopen, how to best pitch them, and more.
Would Arm be able to wrangle a price-sales and price-earnings premium to Intel and TSMC? We think so.
Even with a single-digit tally, the last three months of this year could be the most active quarter by the count of IPOs we do care about.
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Will we see any IPOs happening this year at all?
If market conditions continue to improve, it’s only a matter of time until we see a new crop of IPOs. But that might not happen as soon as you’d expect.
As the stock market cooled last year, it led to a dearth of startup IPOs. That could be about to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that Klaviyo, the Boston-based…
Our Monday show is a kickoff for the week that covers startup news, tech news and a little bit of the money that powers both.
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Putting numbers on the global venture slowdown
Total venture funding in 2022 amounted to $415.1 billion, 35% less than in 2021.
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Are Arm and Ant Group’s derailed exits back on track?
Once an exit gets off the rails, and under current market conditions, it is just not easy to get back on track.
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Is Instacart a forerunner of bad news?
Instacart’s first major valuation haircut was a sign of bad things to come for other tech companies on the delivery, IPO or valuation fronts. It now seems that we might not have hit rock bottom yet.
EquityZen shared insights on secondary stock sales and a few IPO predictions that gave us food for thought.
It appears that the S-1 drought is set to continue until some brave company breaks the logjam in style.
We cannot provide enough handicapping to eliminate the fact that so very many 2021 tech IPOs were, from a returns perspective, hot garbage once they floated.
Join us for a jolly jaunt through our list of events that we failed to predict in Q3, and what we expect to happen in Q4 2022.
Nubank’s decision is now another data point that leaves us wondering how long it will be before another Latin American fintech dares to IPO.
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As US SPACs flounder, did Europe largely dodge a bullet?
Things have turned so sour for SPACs that it leaves us with a question: Why did anyone think that this was a good idea again?
How are the myriad issues in China’s economy impacting Chinese startups?
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As Deezer goes public via SPAC, is the blank-check boom really over?
Let’s chat through the results of the Deezer deal, how quickly the IPO market has changed more generally, and then drill into the European SPAC market in the wake of Deezer’s demonstrative debut.
From early IPOs to startup crowdfunding, are non-professional investors assuming more risk than they should?
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Bidding adieu to the SPAC craze
The implosion of the SPAC boom has proven a multiquarter process. We may be in the final throes of the experiment, at least from a startup perspective.
Tiger Global is having a year. According to a new report from Financial Times, the low-flying-yet-seemingly-ubiquitous 21-year-old outfit has seen losses of about $17 billion during this year’s tech stock…
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Will the corporate venture boom lead to an M&A frenzy?
Why recent CVC activity combined with the current climate for startups could result in a more active M&A market.