Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Hand over a $5 bill and get $1 back – that’s the scenario if you had bought a share of stock in these small IPOs: Two Hong Kong companies – DarkIris (DKI), a mobile games developer – and Etoiles Capital Group (EFTY), an investor relations services firm – each priced their small IPOs at $4.00 […]

Heartflow, Inc. (HTFL) priced its IPO at $19.00 – $1.00 above the top of its recently increased price range of $17.00 to $18.00 – and sold 16.7 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $316.7 million on Thursday night, Aug. 7, 2025. Bain Capital-backed Heartflow had a market cap of $1.57 billion […]

WhiteFiber (WYFI) priced its IPO at $17.00 – the high end of its $15.00-to-$17.00 range – and upsized the deal at pricing to 9.38 million shares – up from 7.81 million shares in the prospectus – to raise $159.38 million on Wednesday night, Aug. 6, 2025. WhiteFiber’s stock opened at $25.00 – up 47 percent […]

Firefly Aerospace (FLY), a U.S. space and defense contractor, increased its IPO’s size to 19.3 million shares – up from 16.2 million – and priced its IPO at $45.00 – $2.00 above the top of its recently increased range of $41.00 to $43.00 – to raise $868.3 million on Wednesday night, Aug. 6, 2025. Shares […]

Heartflow, Inc. (HTFL Proposed) pumped up the size of its IPO early today – increasing both the number of shares and the price range – to raise $292.25 million – up from initial estimated proceeds of $200 million – according to an S-1 filing dated Aug. 6, 2025. Heartflow (HTFL) now is offering 16.7 million shares […]

CTW Cayman (CTW), a Tokyo-based company that offers free-to-play HTML5 games based on popular Japanese anime characters, cut its IPO at pricing to 2.4 million shares – down from 3.0 million shares in the prospectus – and priced the IPO at $5.00 – the low end of its $5.00-to-$6.00 price range – to raise $12 […]

Bullish (BLSH Proposed), the parent of Bullish, the global crypto exchange platform, and CoinDesk, an information services business, disclosed the terms for its $598.9 million IPO early today – Monday, Aug. 4, 2025 – and launched the deal to price next week. Bullish is offering 20.3 million shares at a price range of $28.00 to […]

Heartflow, Inc. (HTFL Proposed) disclosed the IPO terms for its $200 million IPO and launched the deal early today – Friday, Aug.  1, 2025 – to price next week. The coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnostics company is offering 12.5 million shares at a price range of $15.00 to $17.00 to raise $200.0 million – if […]

First SPAC to debut in August 2025: HCM III Acquisition Corp. (HCMAU) priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 22 million units at  $10.00 each – and raised $220 million on Thursday night, July 31, 2025. HCM III Acquisition Corp. (HCMAU) started trading today – Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 – at […]

FIG dessert, anyone? Figma (FIG) more than doubled its IPO price – opening at $85 – up nearly 158 percent in its New York Stock Exchange debut early this afternoon. From that moonshot at the first tick, Figma (FIG) shares just kept climbing – hitting a session high above $116 and tapering off slightly to trade at […]