initial public offerings (IPOs) trading on American exchanges
Showing posts with label AI IPOs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI IPOs. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2020

IPOs this week : Dec 7 - 11, 20 (wk 50)

IPOs expected to price 

  • DoorDash (DASH); DoorDash expects to raise over $3B after targeting an even higher price range of $90 to $95 to imply a Chipotle-like market valuation of over $35B. 
  • C3.ai (NYSE:AI); machine learning software specialist C3.ai, shooting to raise over $500M through its offering. 
  • Airbnb (ABNB); Airbnb goes public with the travel sector still being disrupted by the pandemic, but expectations high. "It’s the Apple of travel," says Atlantic Equities ahead of the debut. Airbnb set a projected target range of $44 to $50 a share for its IPO. The company plans to sell 50M shares, while existing shareholders are selling another 1.9M.
  • Hydrofarm Holdings (HYFM);  Hydrofarm aims to raise $130M to grow out its vertical farming business and 
  • Certara (CERT), which uses biosimulation software to create virtual trials that use virtual patients to predict how drugs behave in different people. The company is profitable is in its early going. 
  • PubMatic (PUBM), programmatic advertising firm is looking to bring in $75M.
IPO lockup expirations

  • Vroom (NASDAQ:VRM) on December 7, as well as Lantern Pharma, (NASDAQ:LTRN), Biopharma Generation Bio (NASDAQ:GBIO), AZEK Company, (NYSE:AZEK) and Avidity Biosciences (NASDAQ:RNA) on December 8.

Friday, May 19, 2017

Veritone (VERI) began trading on Nasdaq on 12 May 2017

  • The California-based artificial intelligence player raised $37.5M, pricing its 2.5M share IPO in the middle of the hoped-for $14-$16 range.
  • The company has developed an aggregated platform of mostly third-party video and audio analysis engines and is controlled by CEO Chad Steelberg and President Ryan Steelberg, who are brothers and together own 74% of company stock pre-IPO.
  • The company is changing its focus from its legacy media business to a new "AI Platform" composed of mostly third-party technologies.






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