Company IPOs, market debuts, direct listings, and trends in going public
A few months ago we charted about the rise of oat milk and how Swedish company Oatly, which had just joined the stock market, was making the most of oat milk's rising popularity. At the time we noted ...
Unicorns are rare. Kids know that, and it's why the name stuck as the descriptor for private startup companies that were valued at more than $1bn. But recently, amidst a frenzy of funding activity, un...
Robinhood, the trading platform both loved (and often loathed) by retail traders, has filed for an IPO in the US meaning that Robinhood traders might soon be able to trade Robinhood shares... on Robin...
Almost 15 years since its founding BuzzFeed, the home of internet quizzes, listicles and insane clickbait, is going to join the public markets by virtue of a SPAC (learn more about SPACs here ). For B...
Everything is bigger in China. Yesterday Didi Chuxing filed to go public in the US, giving us an insight into just how big the "Uber of China" really is. Its filings reveal 2020 revenue of almost Rmb1...
In another time we could easily have connected this chart with the last one, but this is 2021, and the surging share price of AMC Theatres — the largest cinema chain in the US — seems to have little t...
Krispy Kreme are the latest company looking to cash in on the still-hot stock market, filing plans for an IPO earlier this week. Completely stuffed We've all experienced that feeling of eating one t...
Oat milk as a service This week Swedish company Oatly debuted on the Nasdaq , with shares jumping on its first day of trading — valuing the company at ~$13bn. That's a pretty frothy valuation for a c...
Retail investors have made headlines repeatedly this year, most notably for trading in shares of GameStop. But for every GameStop success story, there's a buyer of a penny stock somewhere else, who pr...
The SPAC attack The number of companies going public on the US stock market via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) has hit almost 300 this year - and it's only the end of March. According t...
In the last 12 months, the US stock market (S&P 500 index) has gone up 70% — a bounce that almost no-one would have predicted during March of last year, when stocks were crashing and the pandemic was ...
This week Stripe, the digital payments company, raised $600m at a $95bn valuation. That officially makes Stripe Silicon Valley's most valuable startup, and puts it second only to Bytedance — the Chine...
Roblox has become the latest startup to join the public markets in a direct listing, with its share price rising more than 60% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $38bn and change. No,...
Bumble, the dating app which has focused on the experience of women on its platform, has filed with the SEC for an IPO which could value the company at more than $6bn. Bumble is just the latest dating...
This week two tech giants debuted on the stock market: Airbnb and DoorDash, with both companies soaring on their first day of trading — DoorDash shares jumping more than 85% from their IPO price, and ...
This week electric vehicle start-up Arrival announced a deal to become a public company — valuing the stealthy British company at a lofty $5.4bn. Like many other companies this year, Arrival isn't goi...
In September 2007 Joe Gebbia sent his friend Brian Chesky an email which read: "I thought of a way to make a few bucks...". The idea was to turn their place in San Francisco into a bed and breakfast f...
For anyone who went to one of 23andMe’s ‘spit parties’ back in 2008, the good news is you’ll likely never go to one again. But, for anyone that still optimistically owns shares in the company, the bad...
Life comes at you fast. Just 26 days ago, we wrote about Bill Ackman's plan to leverage his X account to help raise $25 billion for his new US closed-end fund, Pershing Square USA. But it appears that...
It looks like one of my favorite feats of financial engineering might be mounting a comeback. From The Financial Times : New fundraising [for SPACs] has been improving slowly this year, rising about 2...