Kodiak AI (KDK) began trading on the Nasdaq on Thur 25 Sept 25

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. builds and operates self-driving trucks. The company delivers freight for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. It offers solutions in the areas of updating automated drivers, a network of transfer points facilitates, and fleet management tools. 

• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
• Founder and CEO Don Burnette
• Incorporated in 2018 
• HQ based in Mountain View, California, with an operations center in Lancaster, Texas
• https://kodiak.ai

Kodiak AI (KDK) began publicly trading on the Nasdaq via a SPAC deal (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics merged with Ares Acquisition Corp. II (AACT) to form the new company.

 

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Kodiak was founded in 2018 by industry veteran, Don Burnette, with a vision of becoming the trusted world leader in autonomous ground transportation dedicated to commercializing driverless trucking at scale. In 2024, we believe Kodiak became the first company to announce delivery of a driverless trucking product to a customer.
 

Beta Bionics (BBNX) began trading on the Nasdaq on Thur 30 Jan 25

Beta Bionics is a diabetes technology company. Its iLet Bionic Pancreas is an automated insulin delivery system that received FDA clearance in 2023 for people with Type 1 diabetes. 

• Sector: Healthcare
• Industry: Medical Devices
• Full Time Employees: 279
• Founded by Edward R. Damiano in 2015 
• Headquartered in Irvine, California
• https://www.betabionics.com

Completed its initial public offering (IPO) on January 30, 2025. 

The IPO raised $234.6 million 

Ticker: BBNX

IPO details

• The IPO was for 13,800,000 shares of common stock at $17 per share 
• The underwriters had the option to purchase an additional 1,800,000 shares 
• Beta Bionics also sold 1,000,000 shares in a private placement to an existing investor at $17 per share 
• BofA Securities, Piper Sandler, and Leerink Partners were the lead bookrunners for the offering 

Jupiter Neurosciences (JUNS) began trading on the Nasdaq on Tue 3 Dec 24

Jupiter Neurosciences, Inc., a clinical stage research and development pharmaceutical company, develops resveratrol platform products primarily for the treatment of neuroinflammation. It is developing JNS101, which is in Phase II trial for the treatment of Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare inherited disease that causes damage to the nervous system, as well as mobility dysfunctions; and JNS108 that is in Phase II trial for treating mild cognitive impairment/early Alzheimer's disease. 

The company was formerly known as Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Jupiter Neurosciences, Inc. in August 2021.

• Sector: Healthcare
• Industry: Biotechnology
• Full Time Employees: 4
• Incorporated in 2015 
• Headquartered in Jupiter, Florida
• https://jupiterneurosciences.com/

Ticker: JUNS

 

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Oklo Inc. (OKLO) began trading on the NYSE on Fri 10 May 24

Oklo Inc. manufactures an emission-free, megawatt-scale atomic generator. The company develops a new kind of nuclear reactor that's small, portable, waste, and carbon-negative. Oklo Inc. has a partnership with Argonne National Laboratory. 

Oklo plans to supply provide clean, reliable, affordable energy to customers across the artificial intelligence, data center, energy, defense, and industrial markets, among others.

• Sector(s): Utilities
• Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric
• Full Time Employees: 78
• Incorporated in 2013 
• Based in Santa Clara, California.
• https://www.oklo.com

IPO: Fri 10 May 2024  after completing its business combination with AltC Acquisition Corp.

 

 

 

Oklo is working with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to develop the Aurora Powerhouse 

Oklo anticipates the first commercial Aurora powerhouse will be deployed in 2027. 

Oklo's Aurora powerhouse

The Aurora Powerhouse is a small, modular nuclear reactor designed by Oklo to produce clean, emission-free energy. 

It is a liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor that is designed to operate on both fresh high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) and used nuclear fuel. 

The Aurora Powerhouse is intended to be low-cost, reliable, and have a small footprint.

Features:

• Fuel: Uses recycled high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
• Power output: Can produce up to 50 megawatts of electricity
• Heat: Can produce usable heat
• Refueling: Can operate for 40 years without refueling
• Cooling: Uses heat pipes for heat removal
• Core: Buried underground

Applications:

• Data centers: Can power AI, cloud, and enterprise data centers
• Factories: Can power industrial sites
• Communities: Can power communities facing unreliable energy supplies
• Defense facilities: Can power bases

DDC Enterprise (DDC) began trading on the NYSE on Fri 17 Nov 23

DDC Enterprise Limited provides ready-to-heat, ready-to-cook, and ready-to-eat plant-based meal products in Hong Kong and internationally. It also provides marketplace, advertising, and content distribution and placement services to third-party brands and products. 

• Sector: Consumer Defensive
• Industry: Packaged Foods
• Full Time Employees: 104
• Incorporated in 2012 
• Based in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
• https://ir.daydaycook.com

 Ticker: DDC

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ticker:  FTCI

 

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The August IPO breaks out higher after confirming that it has scheduled its Q2 earnings report, which will represent co's first quarterly financial release since going public, for September 2; co previously provided preliminary results for the quarter, seeing adj. net revs of $5.3 bln and adj. EBITDA of $3.8 bln. The stock has now added circa +27% during the most recent three sessions.

BNTX trades above its $15.00 IPO pricing point

Continued volatility for the recent IPO; the stock now trades above its $15.00 IPO pricing point for the first time in more than a week.

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Owl Rock Capital Corporation (ORCC) began trading on the NYSE on Thur 18 July 19

• NEW YORK, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective today, Owl Rock Capital Corporation is renamed to Blue Owl Capital Corporation and, beginning with today's trading session, its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange will be "OBDC". 
• Blue Owl Capital Corporation is managed by an investment adviser that is an indirect affiliate of Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE: OWL). Effective today, the Company's investment adviser is renamed as "Blue Owl Credit Advisors LLC".
  

Owl Rock Capital Corp. priced its initial public offering of 10 million shares of common stock at $15.30 per share for the specialty finance company focused on lending to U.S. middle-market companies. Shares started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 18, under the ticker ORCC.

Moderna (MRNA) began trading on the Nasdaq on 7 December 2018

Moderna, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that is focused on drug discovery and drug development based on messenger RNA (mRNA). The company creates synthetic mRNA that can be injected into patients to help them create their own therapies.
The pharma is shaping its mRNA platform into prophylactic and cancer vaccines, as well as immuno-oncology, regenerative and systemic therapeutics.
The company was formerly known as Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Moderna, Inc. in August 2018.

Sector: Healthcare
Industry: Biotechnology
Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Number of employees: ~700
Founded: 2010
http://www.modernatx.com

Offer size: $604 million; 21.7 million shares 

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Yum China (YUMC) began trading on the NYSE on 25 October 2016

• The Louisville, KY-based restaurant company, which operates quick-serve names like KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, span off its Yum China division.

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Yum China Holdings, Inc. operates as a restaurant company in China. As of November 1, 2016, the company had 7,300 restaurants in approximately 1,100 cities. It holds exclusive right to operate and sub-license the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands in China, as well as owns the East Dawning and Little Sheep concepts. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Milestones in China

• 1987 – KFC opens its first China location in Beijing
• 1990 – Pizza Hut opens its first China location in Beijing
• 2001 – Pizza Hut Home Service launches in Shanghai
• 2004 – KFC opens its 1,000th restaurant in China
• 2005 – First East Dawning restaurant opens in Shanghai
• 2012 – Yum! Brands acquires Little Sheep
• 2013 – Pizza Hut Casual Dining opens its 1,000th restaurant in China
• 2015 – KFC opens its 5,000th restaurant in China
• 2016 – Separated from Yum! Brands and became an independent company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange

Extraction Oil & Gas (XOG) began trading on the Nasdaq on 12 Oct 2016

Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., an independent oil and gas company, focuses on the acquisition, development, and production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid reserves in the Rocky Mountain region, primarily in the Wattenberg Field of the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin of Colorado.

• Sector: Energy
• Industry: Oil & Gas E&P
• Full Time Employees: 227
• Founded in 2012
• Headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
• http://www.extractionog.com

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