Oatly: Things have turned a little sour since the company's IPO in May
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: They're meant to be rare, but increasingly they seem everywhere
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 wants to become a public stock itself, filing for an IPO
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...
BuzzFeed's big year: Listicles and crazy quizzes have paid off as BuzzFeed targets a $1.5bn valuation in SPAC deal
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...
China's Uber: The "Uber of China", Didi Chuxing, has just filed for an IPO
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...
AMC > GameStop: Reddit traders are at it again
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...
The doughnut IPO: Krispy Kreme wants to go public, again
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...
Milk wars: Oat milk has had a quick ascendance in popularity, can it unseat almond?
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...
Penny stocks: A record number of penny stocks are changing hands
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 blank cheque boom: Why the market for SPACs is exploding
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...
Stocks: Stock markets haven't risen this much in a 12-month period for a long, long time
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 ...
The world's most valuable startups: What are they, and where are they?
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: The gaming platform that kids are obsessed with just joined the stock market
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,...
Swiping right: How couples meet has changed a lot since the '90s
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...
Y Combinator: We dive into YC, the start-up incubator that has backed both Airbnb & DoorDash
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 ...
The blank cheque boom: How 2020 has been the year of the SPAC
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...
Airbnb's IPO delays: Something they may now regret?
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...
23andMe looks to go private as value keeps falling
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...
RIP Bill Ackman’s IPO
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...
Return of the SPAC
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...