If you'd bought a single share of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) when it made its IPO back in 1997, you would've paid $18. Had you held onto that single share, your investment would be worth more than $28,000 today. As of Feb. 26, Amazon was trading for...
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Shares of United Wholesale Mortgage (NYSE: UWMC) shot up by as much as 16% at one point in the early hours of trading. The company announced on Twitter today that it had been included in the preliminary list of IPO additions for the Russell 1000...
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Investors appear excited to buy shares in impending public companies Oscar Health and Coupang. TechCrunch covered both extensively during their ramp toward the public markets, and more recently regarding their IPO march. And now, with a combined...
Vizio has revived its plans to go public more than five years after its first attempt at an IPO. The TV and sound bar manufacturer has submitted a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its proposed initial public offering....
According to an amended S-1 filing, South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang expects to price its initial public offering between $27 to $30 per share, potentially raising up to $3.6 billion. After the IPO, Coupang will have a total of 1.7 billion...
Buzzy mega-rounds and high-profile IPOs often dominate headlines. But many of those companies were once early-stage and scrapping to raise a seed round.
Today, Chicago Ventures, a VC firm that often leads seed-stage rounds, announced the close of...
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Some top hedge funds reportedly were shorting tech IPOs as soon as they could, and now it appears that many of the same hedge funds could be piling back into the shares. These four companies offer...
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Robinhood Said To Push Forward With IPO Plans For March, Despite Recent Chaos
Well, we might finally have an answer as to why Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev was so eager to go on a non-stop PR tour over the last few weeks - one that included...
According to news reports, Elon Musk's SpaceX is now worth $74 billion. That number is based on the company's implied valuation after having recently raised $850 million in new capital from private stock sales. How much the company is really worth,...
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The financial story of the year did not start in lower Manhattan or in the wealthy enclaves of Greenwich Connecticut, but rather on Wall Street Bets-a NSFW chatroom on Reddit. The on-again, off-again meme stock trading frenzy has captured the...
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Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ: SIVB), which caters heavily to the start-up community, has already cashed in on several high-profile tech IPOs over the last year such as BigCommerce Holdings and Root.Now, it looks like it's about to hit again on the...
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The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, came into its own in 2020. The so-called "blank-check company" exists with the sole purpose of conducting an initial public offering (IPO). It then uses the funds raised from the IPO to acquire...
There was strong demand for shares of Bumble (NASDAQ: BMBL) during its recent IPO. Stock for the online dating app made their debut earlier this month and surged 64% on its first day of trading, but it has lost ground in the weeks since. There are...
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The market for initial public offerings (IPO) has been hot over the past year and shows no signs of cooling. Unicorns, or companies worth more than $1 billion, have become the rule rather than the exception, with a growing number of start-ups easily...
It's easy to see why Bumble (NASDAQ: BMBL) was a hot debutante two weeks ago. Online dating has never been as popular as it is right now with traditional social gatherings harder to come by in the new normal. Bumble happens to have the world's...
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It's no secret that leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been planning to go public, but as its initial filing was confidential, we didn't know too much about the business itself. However, Coinbase publicly filed for its upcoming direct...
We've seen hundreds of SPACs go public over the past year, and we're seeing an increasing number of these blank check companies target real estate businesses. Not only that, but we're now seeing real estate investment trusts starting to launch SPACs...
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Airbnb on Thursday reported $859 million in Q4 revenue, surpassing analyst expectations.
Airbnb saw a "frenzied" IPO in December 2020 and weathered a battered travel industry amid COVID-19.
Better days may be ahead...
This morning DigitalOcean, a provider of cloud computing services to SMBs, filed to go public. The company intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “DOCN.”
DigitalOcean’s offering comes amidst a...
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The number of Chinese companies selling stock shares on American exchanges hit a 10-year high in 2020, despite the rising U.S.-China tensions and the threat by Washington to delist companies that do not meet American accounting standards.
A...
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