Author Archives: Jan Paschal

AIRO Group Holdings (AIRO), a drone manufacturer, avionics, training and electric air mobility company, priced its IPO at $10.00 – down from its price range of $14.00 to $16.00 – and increased the number of shares to 6.0 million – up from 5.0 million shares in the prospectus – to raise $60.0 million on Thursday night, […]

“Ring My Bell” indeed. Chime Financial (CHYM) surged at its opening trade to $43.00 – up $16.00 for a gain of 59.26 percent when it started trading at 12:49 p.m. EDT today – Thursday, June 12, 2025 – on NASDAQ. Volume was about 3.09 million shares. Chime’s stock has given up some ground since then […]

Singapore-based shipbroker Vantage Corp. (VNTG) priced its small IPO of just 3.25 million shares at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$5.00 price range – and raised $13 million on Wednesday night June 11, 2025. Vantage Corp.’s stock opened at $4.39 today – Thursday, June 12, 2025 – on the NYSE – American Exchange and hit an […]

Chime Financial (CHYM) priced its long-awaited IPO at $27.00 – $1.00 above the top of its $24.00-to-$26.00 range – and sold 32 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $864 million on Wednesday night, June 11, 2025. At pricing, Chime has a market cap of about $9.84 billion. Chime’s stock […]

Ategrity Specialty Holdings (ASIC), a P&C insurer that caters to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), priced its IPO at $17.00 – $1.00 above the top of its $14.00-to-$16.00 price range – and sold 6.67 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $113.39 million on Tuesday night, June 10, 2025. Ategrity’s […]

Voyager Technologies (VOYG), a Denver-based space and defense contractor, increased its IPO’s size at pricing to about 12.35 million shares – up from 11 million shares in the prospectus – and priced the IPO at $31.00 – $2.00 above the top of its range – to raise $382.85 million on Tuesday night, June 10, 2025. The […]

Blue Water Acquisition Corp. III (BLUWU) increased its SPAC IPO’s size to 22.0 million units – up from 20.0 million units – and priced the deal at $10.00 per unit – the price in the prospectus – to raise $220.0 million on Monday night, June 9, 2025. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share […]

Caris Life Sciences, Inc. (CAI Proposed), a cancer-focused precision medicine pioneer, revealed its IPO terms – 23.53 million shares at a price range of $16.00 to $18.00 – to raise $400.0 million, if priced at the $17.00 mid-point of its range – in an S-1/A filing early today, Monday, June 9, 2025. At pricing, Caris […]

Slide Insurance Holdings, Inc. (SLDE Proposed) slid right onto the IPO runway early today. The coastal specialty P&C insurer disclosed its IPO terms – 20.0 million shares at a price range of $15.00 to $17.00 to raise $320.0 million, if priced at the $16.00 mid-point of its range, according to its S-1/A filing dated June […]

A middle-of-the-road moment:  Omada Health (OMDA), a provider of virtual healthcare to people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, priced its IPO at $19.00 – the mid-point of its $18.00-to-$20.00 range – and raised $150.1 million on Thursday night, June 5, 2025. Omada Health priced 7.9 million shares – the number of shares in the […]