Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

BeLive Holdings (BLIV), a Cayman Islands-incorporated holding company with  operating subsidiaries in Singapore and Vietnam, priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.00 and sold 2.45 million shares – the terms in the prospectus – to raise $9.8 million on Thursday night, April 3, 2025. Shares of BeLive Holdings (BLIV) opened flat at $4.00 at about noon […]

Lianhe Sowell International Group Ltd. (LHSW), the parent of a machine vision products and solutions company in China, priced its IPO at $4.00  – the low end of its $4.00-to-$5.00 range – and raised $8.0 million on Wednesday night, April 2, 2025. Shares of Lianhe Sowell International Group opened today – Thursday, April 3 – […]

Top Win International Ltd. (TOPW), the parent of a Hong Kong wholesaler of Rolex watches and other luxury watch brands, priced its small-cap IPO at $4.00 – the bottom of its $4.00-to-$6.00 price range – and sold 2.664 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $10.66 million on Tuesday night, […]

SmartStop Self Storage REIT (SMA) priced its lPO at $30.00 – below the $31.50 mid-point of its $28.00-to-$35.00 price range – and sold 27.0 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – on Tuesday night, April 1st. Shares of SmartStop Self Storage REIT opened at $32.40 – up 8 percent from their […]

A super-sized REIT IPO – SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (SMA Proposed) – gets the April parade going for the IPO market. SmartStop Self Storage REIT is offering 27.0 million shares at a price range of $28.00 to $35.00 to raise $850.5 million – if priced at the $31.50 mid-point of its range.  SmartStop Self […]

CoreWeave, Inc. (CRWV Proposed), an NVIDIA-backed AI platform company that runs 32 data centers, is the big name on this week’s IPO Calendar. Livingston, N.J.-based CoreWeave’s IPO totals 49.0 million shares – with 47.18 million shares offered by CoreWeave and 1.82 million shares offered by the selling stockholders – at a price range of $47.00 […]

Baiya International (BIYA), the parent of a Chinese job-matching and recruitment services platform, priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$6.00 range – and sold 2.5 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $10.0 million on Thursday night, March 20, 2025. The stock slipped to open […]

RedCloud Holdings plc (RCT) priced its small-cap IPO at $4.50 – near the low end of its $4.00-t0-$6.00 price range – and sold 4.44 million shares (4,444,445 shares) – to raise about $20.0 million on Thursday night, March 20, 2025. RedCloud Holdings’ stock opened flat at $4.50 at 11:10 a.m. EDT today – Friday, March […]

Gesher Acquisition Corp. II (GSHRU), a SPAC that will search for a target business in Israel, raised $125 million – as expected – by pricing its IPO of 12.5 million units at $10.00 each – on Thursday night, March 20, 2025. Gesher Acquisition II is expected to start trading today – Friday, March 21, 2025 […]

CoreWeave, Inc. (CRWV Proposed), an AI cloud platform company, unveiled the terms for its long-awaited IPO – 49 million shares at a price range of $47.00 to $55.00 to raise $2.5 billion – in an S-1/A filing early today – Thursday, March 20, 2025. It may not be a coincidence that CoreWeave’s filing comes on the […]