Author Archives: Jan Paschal

Anticipation is the word in the IPO market. Anthropic is likely to unveil its first public SEC filing for the Claude AI maker’s blockbuster IPO next week – possibly on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, when Wall Street gets back to work after the Labor Day holiday. Anthropic’s IPO could raise as much as $100 billion, […]

Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VIII (IPHXU) – part of Michael Blitzer’s SPAC franchise – raised $250 million – pricing 25 million units at $10.00 each – in its SPAC IPO on Thursday night, Aug. 27, 2026. Each unit consists of one share and one-third of one redeemable warrant, the prospectus said. Inflection Point Acquisition VIII […]

JATT III Acquisition, a newly minted healthcare SPAC, soared in its NASDAQ debut – up 14.5 percent to close at $11.45 on Wednesday (Aug. 26, 2026). JATT III Acquisition (JTTT), a stock-only SPAC, jumped $1.00 when it started trading – opening at $11.00. Most SPACs trade fairly close to $10.00, the standard price for a […]

Southern Cross Acquisition II   (SCATU), a New York-based SPAC with ties to China, raised $75 million with the pricing of its SPAC IPO – 7.5 million units at $10.00 each – on Tuesday night, Aug. 25, 2026. On Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026 – Southern Cross Acquisition II   (SCATU) opened flat – at $10.00 – and closed in […]

Friday night lights with solar power and battery storage: CoVolt Power (KVLT Proposed) of Houston filed to go public after the closing bell tonight. This company designs, engineers and builds utility-size solar power plants as well as battery energy storage systems (BESS) and high-voltage transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure. The IPO’s estimated proceeds are $100 […]

Lyntris (LYNX) slashed its IPO’s size at pricing to 17 million shares – down from 24 million shares in the prospectus – and priced the deal at $17.50 – $1.50 below the bottom of the $19.00-to-$22.00 range in the prospectus – to raise $297.5 million on Tuesday night, Aug. 18, 2026. Those numbers represent a […]

Trive Capital-backed Lyntris (LYNX Proposed) – a defense tech start-up – is the only IPO set for lift-off for the week of Aug. 17, 2026. That’s not unusual for mid-August. It’s traditionally a slow period for the IPO market – peak vacation time for many IPO pros and traders in the countdown to the Labor […]

Londian Wason New Energy Tech (FOIL) upsized its IPO at pricing to 4.3 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) – up from 3.57 million in the prospectus – and priced its IPO at $22.00 – the top of its range – to raise $94.3 million on Tuesday night, Aug. 11, 2026. The Chinese company is one […]

Lyntris Inc. (LYNX), a U.S. Department of Defense contractor, launched its $492 million IPO early today to price next week. Lyntris Inc.’s IPO consists of 24 million shares at a price range of $19.00 to $22.00 to raise $492 million – if priced at the  $20.50 mid-point  of its range, according to its S-1/A filing […]

Londian Wason New Energy Tech (FOIL Proposed) of China is the only IPO set to price in the second week of August. This shows that IPO bankers are ready for the late summer slowdown, which traditionally runs from mid-August until after Labor Day. Londian Wason, one of the world’s largest producers of copper foil for lithium […]