Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Hong Kong-based VSME Media Holdings Ltd. (VSME) priced its IPO in sync with its prospectus – 2.0 million shares at $5.00 to raise $10.0 million – on Wednesday night (Sept. 27, 2023). VSME Media Holdings’ stock jumped $1.00 – or 20 percent – to open at $6.00 at 10:30 a.m. EDT today (Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023) […]

As September draws to a close, the IPO Calendar looks like an Asian buffet. Seven of this week’s 10 small-cap IPOs are for companies headquartered in Asia. Hong Kong (China) and Singapore each claim two IPOs in the week ahead. Japan, Taiwan and Pakistan are each home to one IPO set for pricing during the […]

Shares of Spain’s Turbo Energy SA (TURB) shot up $1.89 – up 37.8 percent from their $5.00 IPO price – to open at $6.89 at 10 a.m. EDT today (Friday, Sept. 22, 2023) on the NASDAQ. Volume was just shy of 101,000 shares on the first trade. The stock hit an intraday high at $7.90 in the morning […]

Tech unicorn Klaviyo, Inc. (KVYO) priced its IPO at $30.00 – $1.00 above its recently increased price range – to raise $576 million on Tuesday night (Sept. 19, 2023). The Boston-based marketing and data automation software company’s IPO consisted of 19.2 million shares – the same number in the prospectus. The above-range pricing at $30.00 gave […]

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 […]