Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM), a Phase 1/Phase 2 biotech, priced its downsized IPO at $16.00 – the low end of its $16.00-to-$18.00 range – on Thursday night, April 4, 2024. The deal’s size was slashed to 6.88 million shares (6,875,000 shares) – down from 8.8 million shares in the prospectus. Contineum Therapeutics raised $110.0 million – well below […]

UL Solutions Inc. (ULS Proposed) set the terms and the date for its $770 million IPO early today – Tuesday, April 2, 2024 – in a post-Easter parade of deals that could raise more than $1 billion. The product testing and safety standards company disclosed in its S-1/A filing today that it plans to offer […]

April got underway for the IPO market early today – Monday, April 1, 2024 –  with the launch of Phase I biotech Contineum Therapeutics (CTNM Proposed). The San Diego-based biotech, which is developing drugs to treat progressive MS (multiple sclerosis) and IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis), plans to price its $149.6 million IPO later this week to […]

Boundless Bio (BOLD) priced its IPO at $16.00 – the mid-point of its range – on just 6.25 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $100.0 million on Wednesday night, March 27, 2024. The Phase 1/Phase 2 cancer biotech’s stock sank in its first day of NASDAQ trading  on Thursday, March […]

Cancer biotech Boundless Bio (BOLD Proposed) leads the short playlist for the four-day holiday week of March 25, 2024, with its $100 million IPO. The U.S. stock market will be closed Friday, March 29, for Good Friday, which marks the start of the three-day Easter holiday weekend. The rest of this week’s IPO Calendar consists […]

Auna S.A. (AUNA), a Latin American healthcare provider backed by Peru’s private equity firm Enfoca, priced its IPO at $12.00 – $1.00 below its $13.00-to-$15.00 range – on 30.0 million shares- the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $360.0 million on Thursday night (March 21, 2024). Auna raised $60 million less than […]

(Updated with Reddit’s debut on the NYSE on Thursday afternoon, March 21, 2024) Reddit (RDDT) shares surged to close at $50.44 – up $16.44 from their IPO price for a gain of 48.35 percent – in their New York Stock Exchange debut today (Thursday, March 21, 2024) on volume of about 47.75 million shares. Reddit […]

Toward the stars: Astera Labs (ALAB) stock opened at $52.56 – up $16.56 for a 46 percent gain from its $36.00 IPO price – on NASDAQ at 12:39 p.m. EDT today – Wednesday, March 20, 2024 – and didn’t look back. Volume on Astera Labs’ opening trade was about 2.64 million shares, NASDAQ records show. […]

Astera Labs (ALAB Proposed), the AI-driven semiconductor connectivity company, priced its IPO at $36.00 – $2.00 above the recently increased price range – on Tuesday night (March 19, 2024). The IPO’s size was 19.8 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus. Astera Labs raised $712.8 million on Tuesday night. Astera’s IPO is expected to […]

By Jan Paschal – Posted March 18, 2024  Astera Labs (ALAB Proposed) – an AI play – increased  its IPO’s size early today to 19.8 million shares – up from 17.8 million shares – and raised the price range to $32.00 to $34.00 – up from $27.00 to $30.00. Under the new terms, Astera Labs expects to raise $653.4 million –  up […]