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Starfighters Space Amends S-1 After PIPE Closing
Starfighters Space, which flies a fleet of seven Mach 2+ F-104 fighter jets from Cape Canaveral toward a suborbital launch license, filed an S-1/A registering resale shares from a May 2026 PIPE placed by Cantor Fitzgerald.
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Small-Cap S-1 Bundle: Dare Bioscience, RZ Wellness
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Small-Cap S-1 Bundle: Dare Bioscience, RZ Wellness
Dare Bioscience registered resale shares tied to an August warrant placement, while RZ Wellness amended its S-1 to sell 5.5 million shares at 3 cents apiece for a $165,000 OTCQB offering -- among the smallest public raises on record.
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Sadot Group Warns of 'Going Concern' in S-1/A
IPO$200M financing package
Sadot Group Warns of 'Going Concern' in S-1/A
Sadot Group filed an amended S-1 registering 4.25 million resale shares tied to a $200 million financing package, disclosing a going-concern warning, a $13.6 million working-capital deficit and zero commodity revenue for the quarter.
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Capstone 72 Files to List Its Home-Flipping REIT
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Capstone 72 Files to List Its Home-Flipping REIT
Capstone 72, a Cleveland-founded single-family home renovation and resale platform, amended its S-11 to price shares at $4 and list on Nasdaq under CAPI, targeting expansion into Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Chicago in 2026.
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Southern Cross Acquisition II Prices $75M SPAC IPO
IPO$75M SPAC IPO
Southern Cross Acquisition II Prices $75M SPAC IPO
Southern Cross Acquisition II priced a downsized $75 million SPAC IPO on Nasdaq, cutting its offering by 25% from an original 10 million units to 7.5 million ahead of trading under ticker SCATU.
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Failed Crypto SPAC Rebrands as Velos, Extends Runway
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Failed Crypto SPAC Rebrands as Velos, Extends Runway
M3-Brigade Acquisition V Corp renamed itself Velos Acquisition I Corp after its business combination with digital-asset firm ReserveOne collapsed, with shareholders extending the SPAC's deadline to August 2027.
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Two More S-1s Land: Enhanced Group, Serina Therapeutics
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Two More S-1s Land: Enhanced Group, Serina Therapeutics
Enhanced Group filed a new S-1 on August 25 while biotech Serina Therapeutics registered up to 12.5 million shares for sale to Roth Principal Investments, two more entries in this week's dense small-cap SEC filing pipeline.
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Shein Prices Hong Kong IPO at $27B, Down 70% From Peak
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Shein Prices Hong Kong IPO at $27B, Down 70% From Peak
Shein launched its long-delayed Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of roughly $27 billion, a 70% drop from the $98.2 billion private-market mark it carried in 2022, as revenue growth has nearly stalled.
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Ten SPAC and S-1 Filings Hit the Tape in 48 Hours
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Ten SPAC and S-1 Filings Hit the Tape in 48 Hours
At least ten S-1 and SPAC registration filings landed with the SEC over August 24-25, 2026, spanning energy, biotech, fuel delivery and five separate blank-check companies.
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Ocean Power Technologies Files S-1 for New Offering
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Ocean Power Technologies Files S-1 for New Offering
Ocean Power Technologies, a publicly traded wave-energy and marine-robotics company built around its PowerBuoy platform, filed a new S-1 registration with the SEC on August 25, 2026.
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Ingenic Semiconductor Launches $410M Hong Kong IPO
IPO$410M
Ingenic Semiconductor Launches $410M Hong Kong IPO
Beijing-based fabless chipmaker Ingenic Semiconductor launched a Hong Kong share offering to raise up to $410 million, joining a wave of mainland Chinese chip companies tapping Hong Kong's capital markets for international expansion.
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EquityZen's Haslett on the AI-vs-SaaS Secondary Divide
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EquityZen's Haslett on the AI-vs-SaaS Secondary Divide
EquityZen's Phil Haslett says private-market secondaries now trade at an average 38% discount to last funding round, but AI-native startups from 2023 onward are pricing at premiums while 2021-vintage SaaS names sell at steep markdowns.
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Oura Eyes September IPO at $16B-Plus Valuation
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Oura Eyes September IPO at $16B-Plus Valuation
Smart ring maker Oura is reportedly planning a US IPO as soon as September that could raise up to $3 billion and value the company above $16 billion, roughly 50% higher than its valuation less than a year ago.
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Rainier Acquisition Corp Amends S-1 for Up to $86M Blank-Check IPO
IPO$86M
Rainier Acquisition Corp Amends S-1 for Up to $86M Blank-Check IPO
Rainier Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands blank-check company formerly named Chardan Healthcare Acquisition 4, filed an amended S-1 on August 24 for an offering of up to 8.625 million units, with $75 million to $86.25 million headed into trust.
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Heyer Brothers File S-1 for Haymaker SPAC No. 5
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Heyer Brothers File S-1 for Haymaker SPAC No. 5
Steven and Andrew Heyer filed an S-1 for Haymaker Acquisition Corp V, their fifth consumer-focused blank-check company after prior SPACs that took OneSpaWorld, ARKO and Biote public.
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Polar Power Files New S-1 for DC Systems Maker
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Polar Power Files New S-1 for DC Systems Maker
Polar Power, a Gardena, California maker of DC power and hybrid solar systems for telecom, military and off-grid customers, filed a new S-1 registration with the SEC on August 24, 2026.
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Live Oak Merchant Files S-1 for Sixth SPAC Vehicle
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Live Oak Merchant Files S-1 for Sixth SPAC Vehicle
Live Oak Merchant Partners filed an S-1 for Live Oak Acquisition Corp VI, its sixth blank-check company, after prior vehicles took Danimer Scientific and Navitas Semiconductor public and merged Live Oak V with Teamshares in June.
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Trump Bought SpaceX Shares Weeks After Its Blockbuster IPO
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Trump Bought SpaceX Shares Weeks After Its Blockbuster IPO
President Trump purchased SpaceX shares roughly two weeks after the company's blockbuster IPO, a disclosure that raises fresh conflict-of-interest questions given SpaceX's extensive federal contracts.
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Essential Minerals Acquisition Corp Files S-1 for $150M Blank-Check IPO
IPO$150M
Essential Minerals Acquisition Corp Files S-1 for $150M Blank-Check IPO
Essential Minerals Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands blank-check company targeting critical-minerals deals, filed an S-1 on August 24 for a proposed offering of 15 million units at $10 apiece, tying SPAC issuance directly to the supply chains feeding AI and.
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Oura Eyes September IPO at $16B+ Valuation
IPO$16B+ valuation
Oura Eyes September IPO at $16B+ Valuation
Smart-ring maker Oura is reportedly preparing a US IPO as soon as September that could raise up to $3 billion at a valuation above $16 billion, nearly 50% above the $11 billion mark it carried after an $875 million round last year.
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Serina Therapeutics Files to Sell Shares for Parkinson's Drug
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Serina Therapeutics Files to Sell Shares for Parkinson's Drug
Biotech Serina Therapeutics filed an S-1 covering up to 12.5 million shares tied to a stock purchase agreement, funding continued development of its lead Parkinson's disease candidate SER-252 built on its POZ drug-delivery platform.
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Polar Power Files S-1 as Off-Grid Demand Grows
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Polar Power Files S-1 as Off-Grid Demand Grows
Polar Power, a Gardena, California maker of DC power systems for telecom towers, defense sites and off-grid installations, filed an amended S-1, its second registration statement in under a month.
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Miami Beach's NextNRG Files S-1 for Mobile Fuel Delivery
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Miami Beach's NextNRG Files S-1 for Mobile Fuel Delivery
NextNRG, a Miami Beach-based on-demand and subscription mobile fuel delivery company led by CEO Michael Farkas, filed a new Form S-1 on August 24 alongside a Series C preferred stock issuance, as its fleet-fueling business scales.
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Shein Targets a $26 Billion IPO Valuation
IPO$26B
Shein Targets a $26 Billion IPO Valuation
Shein expects to price its long-delayed listing at a valuation around $26 billion, well below the $66 billion mark it carried in its 2023 private round.
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Nine New SEC Filings Test a Crowded IPO Calendar
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Nine New SEC Filings Test a Crowded IPO Calendar
Nine new SEC registration statements filed August 24, spanning energy, biotech, minerals and blank-check issuers, show smaller companies still testing public markets this week.
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Five New S-1 Filings Show the IPO Window Stays Open
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Five New S-1 Filings Show the IPO Window Stays Open
A fresh batch of SEC S-1 filings spanning energy, biotech and blank-check issuers shows smaller companies continuing to test the public market even as headline IPO attention stays on mega-cap listings.
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GridAI Technologies Amends S-1 for Grid Software Listing
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GridAI Technologies Amends S-1 for Grid Software Listing
GridAI Technologies Corp has amended its S-1 to pursue a public listing for its AI-driven grid management software, betting utilities will pay for automated load-balancing as data-center demand strains capacity.
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Unitree's 460% IPO Pop Was Normal for China
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Unitree's 460% IPO Pop Was Normal for China
Unitree's robot maker debut surged 460% on its first day, an outcome that reflects the structure of Chinese IPO pricing rules more than unique enthusiasm for the company.
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Nvidia and Salesforce Earnings Take the Spotlight
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Nvidia and Salesforce Earnings Take the Spotlight
Nvidia and Salesforce report into a market that has grown skeptical of AI capex, making guidance more consequential than the quarters themselves.
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Holtec Nuclear Amends S-1 as SMR Demand Meets AI Power
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Holtec Nuclear Amends S-1 as SMR Demand Meets AI Power
Holtec Nuclear Corp has amended its S-1 filing as small modular reactor developers ride growing data-center power demand into the public markets.
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Anthropic and OpenAI's Parallel Paths to Going Public
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Anthropic and OpenAI's Parallel Paths to Going Public
Anthropic and OpenAI both have draft S-1s in motion, but their public postures differ sharply -- Anthropic racing toward a size comparable to SpaceX, OpenAI's CFO explicitly declining to treat the process as a race.
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Anthropic's IPO Filing Will Flag AI Backlash as Risk
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Anthropic's IPO Filing Will Flag AI Backlash as Risk
Anthropic's forthcoming IPO filing will include AI backlash -- public and regulatory skepticism toward the industry -- as a formal risk factor, sources tell CNBC, an unusually candid disclosure for a company chasing SpaceX's record size.
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Anthropic Eyes IPO Big Enough to Beat SpaceX
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Anthropic Eyes IPO Big Enough to Beat SpaceX
Anthropic is preparing to file publicly for an IPO it expects to match or exceed SpaceX's record-setting size, with some investors modeling a valuation above $2 trillion.
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2026 US IPO Volume Nears the 2021 Record
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2026 US IPO Volume Nears the 2021 Record
US companies have raised roughly $160.6 billion in IPO proceeds through August 19, putting 2026 within reach of 2021's full-year record of $175 billion even before Anthropic's own listing is counted.
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Three Biotechs File S-1s in the Same Week
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Three Biotechs File S-1s in the Same Week
Tempest Therapeutics, Aptevo Therapeutics and Alzamend Neuro all filed S-1 registration statements this week, a reminder that the biotech IPO pipeline keeps moving even in a news cycle dominated by trillion-dollar AI listings.
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Three SPACs File This Week Hunting for Targets
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Three SPACs File This Week Hunting for Targets
Dune Acquisition Corp III, Albatross Acquisition Corp and Three Lions Acquisition Corp all filed amended S-1 registrations this week, adding to a modest but real pipeline of blank-check vehicles still working through the SEC process.
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Defense Tech's Private Funding Boom Builds Toward IPOs
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Defense Tech's Private Funding Boom Builds Toward IPOs
Crunchbase'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.
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The Defense-Space IPO Ladder, By the Numbers
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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.
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Where 2026's Record IPO Money Is Actually Landing
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Where 2026's Record IPO Money Is Actually Landing
Break 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.
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2026's SPAC Comeback, Read Through Three Deals
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2026's SPAC Comeback, Read Through Three Deals
Three SPAC deals in as many weeks -- Karman Line's blank-check filing, FORT Robotics' $557M merger, and a new physical-AI safety category -- show the SPAC structure quietly finding real footing again in defense and robotics.
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Why I'm Wary of This Week's Pre-Revenue IPO Rush
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Why I'm Wary of This Week's Pre-Revenue IPO Rush
Gravitics 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.
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Nvidia's Investment Pullback Is a Signal for 2026's IPO Class
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Nvidia's Investment Pullback Is a Signal for 2026's IPO Class
Jensen Huang has signaled Nvidia's stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely its last private investments in either company -- a strategic recalibration ahead of both labs' expected public listings, not a vote of declining confidence.
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Why I'd Rather Back the Acquirer Than Wait for the IPO
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Why I'd Rather Back the Acquirer Than Wait for the IPO
Between Stripe buying OpenRouter and SpaceX buying Anysphere, $67.5B moved through M&A in six weeks. Anthropic's IPO won't price until November at the earliest. As an early check-writer, I'd rather back the company doing the buying.
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What This Week's IPO Slate Says About Small-Cap Tech
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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.
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Why 2026's IPO Pipeline Is Running at Its Fastest Pace in Years
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Why 2026's IPO Pipeline Is Running at Its Fastest Pace in Years
The week of August 16-22 alone saw 11 IPO pricings Monday, 6 Tuesday, 7 Wednesday, 7 Thursday and 4 more scheduled Friday -- 35 pricings in a single week, the clearest sign yet that the IPO window has genuinely reopened.
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Why Anthropic's IPO Math Points to a $1T+ Debut
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Why Anthropic's IPO Math Points to a $1T+ Debut
Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 on June 1 targeting a November 30 pricing, off a $965B Series H and $47B run-rate revenue -- market forecasters put the median 90-day post-IPO market cap at $1.14 trillion.
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SpaceX Stock Falls Below IPO Price on Share Unlock
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SpaceX Stock Falls Below IPO Price on Share Unlock
SpaceX shares fell as much as 6% and dropped below their $135 IPO price after 319 million more shares became tradable, erasing roughly $103B of the company's implied market value in a single day.
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Gravitics Sets Terms for $125M Space-Station IPO
IPO$125M IPO
Gravitics Sets Terms for $125M Space-Station IPO
Space-infrastructure company Gravitics set terms for a $125M Nasdaq listing via reverse merger, aiming to build private space station modules despite zero revenue and a $24.5M six-month net loss.
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Rebellions Bets on a Korea IPO as Nvidia Circles
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Rebellions Bets on a Korea IPO as Nvidia Circles
Rebellions' CFO calls a Korea Exchange listing the company's top priority, even as Nvidia opens early talks about a possible investment in or acquisition of the same $2.3B AI chipmaker.
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Castelion Hits $13B Valuation to Mass-Produce Missiles
IPO$1B Series C at $13B
Castelion Hits $13B Valuation to Mass-Produce Missiles
Defense startup Castelion raised a $1B Series C co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle and JPMorgan at a $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles in New Mexico, as the Pentagon races to close a stockpile gap with China.
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Airwallex Bets on Autonomous Finance, Delays IPO Timing
IPO$11B valuation (July raise)
Airwallex Bets on Autonomous Finance, Delays IPO Timing
Airwallex is repositioning from cross-border payments into an AI-native financial operating system focused on autonomous finance, while president Lucy Liu says it still targets IPO-readiness by year-end.
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OpenAI 'Will Be a Public Company in 2027,' CFO Tells Staff
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OpenAI 'Will Be a Public Company in 2027,' CFO Tells Staff
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting the company will be public by 2027 or sooner, framing the IPO as a fundraising milestone rather than a finish line, while acknowledging Anthropic could go public first.
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OpenAI CFO Tells Staff: Public Company 'in 2027', Maybe Sooner
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OpenAI CFO Tells Staff: Public Company 'in 2027', Maybe Sooner
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told an all-hands that the company 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner if growth keeps inflecting, and said Anthropic listing first is 'no problem' since OpenAI is 'running our own race.'
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Cerebras Faces Its Own Lockup Cliff Before September
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Cerebras Faces Its Own Lockup Cliff Before September
Up to 84 million Cerebras Class B shares become eligible to convert and sell by the end of August, about 2.4 times the 34.5 million shares sold in its IPO, with another 87 million unlocking in September and October.
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ServiceNow's $7.75B Armis Deal Bucks 'Saaspocalypse' Fears
IPO$7.75B acquisition
ServiceNow's $7.75B Armis Deal Bucks 'Saaspocalypse' Fears
ServiceNow's stock fell 42% in early 2026 on fears AI agents would make enterprise software obsolete, but its $7.75B acquisition of cybersecurity startup Armis helped drive a 41% May rally and outperformance versus Salesforce and Workday.
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Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn Class
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Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn Class
Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator top the list of investors backing 2026's new unicorns, with 250 companies reaching billion-dollar valuations through August 15 -- up from 193 in all of 2025, per Crunchbase data.
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Unitree Robotics Rockets 629% in Shanghai Trading Debut
IPO$904M raised, 629% debut pop
Unitree Robotics Rockets 629% in Shanghai Trading Debut
Unitree Robotics surged as much as 629% in its Shanghai debut, briefly hitting a $66B valuation before settling up 460% at roughly $47B, becoming the first humanoid robot maker listed in mainland China.
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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.
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Peacock Raises Prices 18% Right After Turning a Profit
IPO$17 to $20 ad-free
Peacock Raises Prices 18% Right After Turning a Profit
Peacock raised prices across all tiers for the fourth time in four years, months after posting its first quarterly profit of $189 million in adjusted EBITDA, with the ad-free plan going from $17 to $20 a month.
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Fort Robotics to Go Public in $557M SPAC Deal
IPO$557M enterprise value
Fort Robotics to Go Public in $557M SPAC Deal
Fort Robotics, a Mark Cuban-backed safety-infrastructure company for autonomous machines, agreed to go public via SPAC at a $557 million enterprise value -- the first public company built specifically for physical-AI safety.
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