Elastic (ESTC) began trading on the NYSE on 5 October 2018

Elastic (ESTC) provides online search capabilities. Elastic is reported to be in competition with public cloud companies like Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), and Splunk (SPLK).

• Priced 7 million shares at $36, above the increased $33-35 range, and up from an earlier price range of 26 to 29. 
• Opened for trading at $70 
• Raised $252 million 
• https://www.elastic.co/

Incorporated in The Netherlands and based in Mountain View, Calif., Elastic says its search technology finds information and insights from large amounts of data, available for a diverse set of applications and use cases.

The Service
Elastic is a search company that equips companies such as Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA), Uber, Adobe Systems Inc., (ADBE) and Sprint Corp. (S).

The company considers search to be foundational to a wide variety of experiences that are facilitated by the company's ability to instantly discover relevant information from large amounts of data.
"When you hail a ride home from work with Uber, Elastic helps power the systems that locate nearby riders and drivers," said Elastic's IPO prospectus. "When you look for a partner on Tinder, Elastic helps power the algorithms that guide you to a match."

Elastic Revenue Up 79%
For the three months ended July 31, Elastic reported revenue of $56.6 million, up 79% from the year-ago period. It had a net loss of $18.6 million in that period, vs. $9.9 million in the previous quarter.

Playa Hotels & Resorts (PLYA) began trading on Nasdaq on 8 May 2017

Playa Hotels & Resorts began trading on the Nasdaq on Monday, May 8, after the all-inclusive resorts operator completed its merger with Pace Holdings Corp., a division of private equity company TPG.

• Playa CEO and chairman Bruce Wardinski and his management team will continue to run the combined company. Pace CEO Karl Peterson and former Sabre Corp. CEO Tom Klein have been appointed to Playa's board of directors.
• On March 1, Pace shareholders approved the transaction, which makes Playa the only publicly traded all-inclusive resorts company.
• Playa's portfolio consists of 13 resorts across Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, including properties operating under Hyatt's Ziva and Zilara brands.

uniQure N.V. (QURE) began trading on the NASDAQ on 5 February 2014

The company, based in Amsterdam, develops gene therapies. It raised $91.8 million after offering 5.4 million shares at $17 per share. It will use the money raised to finish building a manufacturing facility in Lexington, Mass., and for clinical trials. Its shares are listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "QURE." They fell $2.39, or 14.1 percent, to $14.61.

uniQure B.V.
Meibergdreef 61
Amsterdam, 1105 BA
Netherlands

Website: http://www.uniqure.com

Business Summary

uniQure BV, a biopharmaceutical company, develops gene therapies through its modular technology platform for the treatment of genetic or acquired diseases. The company offers Glybera for the treatment of patients with lipoprotein lipase deficiency, an orphan metabolic disease. It also develops a pipeline of additional adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies, including AMT-060, a gene therapy for the treatment of hemophilia B; AMT-021 for acute intermittent porphyria; AMT-110 for Sanfilippo B syndrome; and AAV2/glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor for Parkinson's disease, as well as various programs that are in early preclinical development stage. The company has collaborations with Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., Digna Biotech, Institut Pasteur, and University of California San Francisco. uniQure BV was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI) started trading on the NASDAQ

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a global semiconductor company and a supplier. The Company provides High-Performance Mixed-Signal and Standard Products solutions. NXP’s product solutions are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. It is engaged with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide and over 58% of its sales are derived from Asia Pacific (excluding Japan).

The Company operates in four segments: High- Performance Mixed-Signal, Standard Products, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate and Other. On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH. On February 8, 2010, Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) completed its acquisition of its television systems and set-top box business lines. As a result of the transaction, NXP owns 60% of Trident.