Author Archives: Jan Paschal

Affirm Holdings, Poshmark, Inc. and Playtika Holding are among the names to note on this week’s IPO Calendar. Bankers expect to raise about $5.2 billion from 12 deals. Eight IPOs and four SPAC offerings are on tap so far. Millennials and Gen Z consumers, who were born in the years 1981-2012, are the target audience for […]

The IPO market hit the accelerator for 2021 when seven deals landed on this week’s IPO Calendar early today. This is the earliest start for the IPO market in recent memory. IPO pricings typically begin between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17, IPOScoop’s records show. IPO bankers expect to raise about $1.55 billion in proceeds from […]

No IPOs are scheduled for pricing this week  as bankers take a break for the holidays. This is a short work week. An abbreviated U.S. stock trading session will end at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 24th, for Christmas Eve. The U.S. stock market will be closed on Friday for Christmas Day.  To all […]

WISH is the word circled by IPO investors this week. ContextLogic, Inc., which runs Wish.com, a bargain hunters’ mobile shopping site, is going public with a proposed symbol – WISH – that’s right in tune with the holiday shopping season. This deal is joined by BioAtla, Inc.(BCAB proposed), a cancer-focused biopharma, and Upstart Holdings, Inc. […]

C3.ai (AI proposed), DoorDash (DASH proposed) and Airbnb (ABNB proposed) are the hottest tickets to the Unicorns’ Ball this week.  C3.ai is generating a lot of buzz – no mean feat in a week when two celebrity unicorns, DoorDash and Airbnb, are set to go public at last. Bankers expect to raise about $8.4 billion […]

(Editor’s Note: This column was updated Tuesday morning, Dec. 1, with the news of Airbnb’s IPO filing terms and trade date.) Seven deals are on this week’s IPO Calendar.  But IPO investors are focused on their holiday wish list. That list – topped off by unicorns – took a step closer to reality today when DoorDash (DASH […]

Ozon Holdings PLC, often called “Russia’s Amazon,” is leading the short IPO Thanksgiving Parade this week. The Ozon deal is the first traditional Russian IPO in the U.S. since May 2019 – and it’s attracting a lot of interest. In addition to Ozon, three SPACs and one small-cap IPO are expected this week. Bankers expect […]

Healthcare deals dominate this week’s IPO Calendar. Sotera Health Co. (SHC proposed) and Maravai LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. (MRVI proposed) are expected to raise $2.3 billion – or a little more than half of the $4.4 billion in estimated IPO volume from 11 deals scheduled so far this week. (We’ll have more on these deals in […]

IPO bankers are getting back into the post-election swing of things this week with a biotech-driven calendar. U.S. stocks soared to record highs today – with the Dow up almost 5 percent – on news from Pfizer about progress on a COVID-19 vaccine and two days after Democrat Joe Biden became the president-elect of the […]