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- Aug 18, 2026Aug 18, 2026Lyntris Prices IPO Below Range at $17.50 a Share Pulse story
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- Aug 31, 2026What SpaceX's Record IPO Means for What's NextSpaceX's June IPO priced at a $1.77 trillion valuation, the largest in history -- and the fall pipeline behind it, from Anthropic to DeepSeek to Kakao Mobility, is the real test of whether that was a ceiling or a floor.→
- Aug 31, 2026The Fall IPO Pipeline, By the Numbers237 IPOs have priced in the US so far in 2026, up 3% from this point last year -- but August was a pause, and the real test is whether Anthropic, DeepSeek, Nscale and Kakao Mobility actually price in the weeks ahead.→
- Aug 31, 2026Why I'm Skeptical of the 'IPO Window Is Open' StoryEveryone's calling this the best IPO market in years, and the aggregate numbers back that up -- but Monday's tape and Lyntris's soft debut are the two data points the bulls keep leaving out.→
- Aug 21, 2026Defense Tech's Private Funding Boom Builds Toward IPOsCrunchbase's roundup of this week's biggest funding rounds shows defense tech and AI infrastructure leading private capital deployment, increasingly feeding a public defense-tech IPO pipeline rather than staying purely private.→
- Aug 21, 2026The Defense-Space IPO Ladder, By the NumbersThis week's Castelion, Lyntris and Gravitics numbers together show a wide split in how public and private markets are pricing defense and space companies at almost the same moment.→
- Aug 21, 2026Where 2026's Record IPO Money Is Actually LandingBreak 2026's roughly $160B in IPO proceeds down by sector and it's concentrated in a handful of mega-deals -- space, AI and defense -- while smaller biotech, SPAC and fintech listings continue at a steadier pace underneath.→
- Aug 21, 2026Why I'm Wary of This Week's Pre-Revenue IPO RushGravitics is reaching Nasdaq with zero revenue via reverse merger the same week Castelion raised private capital at 26x contracted revenue -- a pattern worth pushing back on before it becomes the default path for hardware startups.→
- Aug 20, 2026What This Week's IPO Slate Says About Small-Cap TechThursday's stock slide didn't stop 7 IPOs from pricing the same day, including Lyntris' downsized defense-sector debut -- a sign the IPO window is staying open even as broader indices wobble on rate concerns.→
- Aug 18, 2026Lyntris Prices IPO Below Range at $17.50 a ShareDefense-tech roll-up Lyntris priced its IPO at $17.50 a share, below the $19-$22 target range, raising roughly $297.5 million ahead of its NYSE debut under ticker LYNX -- a real-time gut check on defense-tech IPO demand after weeks of bullish sector coverage.→
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Why I'm Skeptical of the 'IPO Window Is Open' Story
Everyone's calling this the best IPO market in years, and the aggregate numbers back that up -- but Monday's tape and Lyntris's soft debut are the two data points the bulls keep leaving out.
THE VC READ
The Defense-Space IPO Ladder, By the Numbers
IPO
The Defense-Space IPO Ladder, By the Numbers
This week's Castelion, Lyntris and Gravitics numbers together show a wide split in how public and private markets are pricing defense and space companies at almost the same moment.
BY THE NUMBERS
What This Week's IPO Slate Says About Small-Cap Tech
IPO
What This Week's IPO Slate Says About Small-Cap Tech
Thursday's stock slide didn't stop 7 IPOs from pricing the same day, including Lyntris' downsized defense-sector debut -- a sign the IPO window is staying open even as broader indices wobble on rate concerns.
DEEP DIVE
Lyntris Prices IPO Below Range at $17.50 a Share
IPO$297.5M raised at $17.50
Lyntris Prices IPO Below Range at $17.50 a Share
Defense-tech roll-up Lyntris priced its IPO at $17.50 a share, below the $19-$22 target range, raising roughly $297.5 million ahead of its NYSE debut under ticker LYNX -- a real-time gut check on defense-tech IPO demand after weeks of bullish sector coverage.
DEEP DIVE