Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

  Wall Street’s SPAC IPO machine priced two more big blank check deals on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025, and raised a total of $395 million. Both SPACS were set to make their debuts today – Wednesday, June 18, 2025,  on NASDAQ. Both SPACs were priced in line with the terms in their prospectuses: – Pioneer […]

Caris Life Sciences (CAI) priced its IPO at $21.00 – $1.00 above the top of its recently increased range – and sold 23.53 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $494.12 million on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025. The price range was $19.00 to $20.00 – increased on Monday, June […]

Slide Insurance Holdings Inc. (SLDE) increased its IPO’s size by 20 percent to 24 million shares and priced the IPO at $17.00 – the high end of its $15.00-to-$17.00 range – to raise $408 million on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025. The Florida home and condo  insurer had a market cap of about $2.19 billion […]

Jyong Biotech Ltd. (MENS), a Taiwan-based biotech developing drugs to treat benign prostate hyperplasia and to prevent prostate cancer, priced its IPO at $7.50 – the low end of its range – and sold 2.7 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $20.0 million on Monday night, June 16, […]

Caris Life Sciences, Inc. (CAI Proposed), an AI TechBio precision medicine pioneer focused on cancer, increased its IPO price range to $19.00 to $20.00 – up from its initial price range of $16.00 to $18.00 – and kept the number of shares at 23.53 million shares – to raise $458.84 million, if priced at $19.50, the […]

Now, Voyager: The IPO market’s rocket launch in June produced a couple of moonshots and a week that gave IPO players something to celebrate. The momentum – and the moment – began to take shape in May with the successful IPOs of eToro (ETOR), MNTN, Inc. (MNTN) and Hinge Health (HNGE). A moonshot occurs when […]

Jefferson Capital, Inc. (JCAP Proposed), a profitable consumer debt purchaser and debt collection company, unveiled its IPO terms – 10.0 million shares at a price range of $15.00 to $17.00 – to raise $160 million, if priced at the $16.00 mid-point, in an S-1/A filing early today, Friday, June 13, 2025. Of the 10 million […]

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 […]