Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Instacart (CART) shares shot up 40 percent to open at $42.00 – up $12.00 from their $30.00 IPO price – in their NASDAQ debut at 12:49 p.m. EDT today (Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023),  NASDAQ records showed. Volume was about 2.59 million shares on the opening trade, according to NASDAQ. Instacart’s stock rose as much as 43 […]

Instacart (CART ) priced its IPO at $30.00 – the high end of its recently raised price range of $28.00 to $30.00 – on Monday night (Sept. 18, 2023). The online grocery delivery pioneer sold 22.0 million shares – the same number of shares in the prospectus – at $30.00 each to raise $660.0 million in the […]

Shopify-backed Klaviyo Inc. (KVYO proposed), a marketing and data automation software company, raised its price range early today – to $27.00 to $29.00 – up from $25.00 to $27.00 initially – reflecting the warm buzz surrounding the tech unicorn’s IPO. The Boston-based company kept the number of shares at 19.2 million – 11.51 million shares from […]

Tech unicorns are back out on the IPO dance floor. Instacart (CART proposed), the online grocery delivery pioneer, and Klaviyo (KVYO proposed), a marketing and data automation software company, are leading this week’s IPO Calendar of 10 deals – nine IPOs and one tiny NASDAQ uplisting. Bankers expect to raise about $1.2 billion, if all […]

A vanilla ice cream cone or a hot fudge sundae with the works: Two biotech IPOs took different approaches to pricing their deals on Thursday night (Sept. 14, 2023). Neumora Therapeutics (NMRA) priced its IPO in sync with the terms in its prospectus – 14.7 million shares at $17.00, the mid-point of its $16.00-to-$18.00 price […]

Arm Holdings plc (ARM) shares shot up 24.7 percent to close at $63.59 – up $12.59 from their $51.00 IPO price – in their first day of NASDAQ trading on Thursday (Sept. 14, 2023). The day got off to a great start for Arm, the biggest U.S. IPO in nearly two years. Arm’s stock jumped 10 percent […]

Birkenstock let the other sandal drop after the close. The iconic German sandal manufacturer filed its F-1 late this afternoon (Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023) without disclosing terms for its U.S. IPO other than the proposed symbol “BIRK” and the venue. This will be a New York Stock Exchange listing. Birkenstock’s IPO filing comes near the […]

Instacart, Inc. (CART proposed) filed terms for its long-awaited IPO – 22.0 million shares at $26.00 to $28.00 – early today (Monday, Sept. 11, 2023). Of the 22.0 million shares, Instacart is offering only 14.1 million shares, while selling stockholders are offering 7.9 million shares. If the IPO is priced at the $27.00 mid-point of […]

The IPO market kicks into high gear this week. SoftBank Group’s chip CPU unit  Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) is set to price its $4.7 billion IPO – the biggest IPO since Rivian (RIVN) in November 2021 – on Wednesday night (Sept. 13, 2023). Instacart (CART proposed), the online grocery delivery service, is expected to disclose its […]

SoftBank Group’s Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) showed its IPO cards early today: 95.5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a price range of $47.00 to $51.00 to raise $4.68 billion ($4,679.5 million) in what will be the biggest IPO of 2023, according to its F-1 filing dated Sept. 5, 2023. If Arm prices its […]