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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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Nvidia's Moat Moves From Silicon to Its Balance Sheet
IPO$500B financing pact
Nvidia's Moat Moves From Silicon to Its Balance Sheet
With AMD and Google narrowing Nvidia's technology lead, the company is deploying its balance sheet instead -- a $500 billion GPU financing pact with Wall Street, a $105 billion OpenAI backstop and $30.2 billion in equity holdings.
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Tesla Readies a Public Cybercab Launch in Austin
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Tesla Readies a Public Cybercab Launch in Austin
Tesla is planning a public launch of the Cybercab in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information, though the two-seater without a steering wheel or pedals has often been spotted testing with both installed.
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Rare-Earth Miner Tactical Resources Hits Nasdaq
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Rare-Earth Miner Tactical Resources Hits Nasdaq
Tactical Resources began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker TREO on August 18 via a SPAC merger with Plum Acquisition Corp. III, positioning the company to process rare-earth tailings in Texas as US critical-minerals policy intensifies.
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Kraken's Krak App Launches a 2% Cash-Back Debit Card
IPOUp to 2% cash back
Kraken's Krak App Launches a 2% Cash-Back Debit Card
Kraken's Krak money app launched a US debit card paying up to 2% back in cash or bitcoin, spendable from more than 600 currencies and crypto assets converted at the point of purchase.
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SpaceX Tows an Intact Starship to Christmas Island
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SpaceX Tows an Intact Starship to Christmas Island
SpaceX recovered an intact Starship after a 24-day tow across the Indian Ocean to Christmas Island, the first time a ship survived splashdown without disintegrating and the first chance to inspect flown heat shield hardware.
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Two New Aerospace SPACs Price $300M in Combined IPOs
IPO$300M
Two New Aerospace SPACs Price $300M in Combined IPOs
Karman Line Acquisition Corp and NorthStrive Acquisition Corp I priced a combined $300 million in blank-check IPOs targeting aerospace, defense and industrial manufacturing.
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Pony AI's Robotaxi Revenue Jumps 691% in Q2
IPORobotaxi rev. $12.1M, +691%
Pony AI's Robotaxi Revenue Jumps 691% in Q2
Pony AI reported Q2 revenue up 69% to $36.2 million, with robotaxi service revenue up 691% to a record $12.1 million as its fleet grew to 2,000 vehicles and Uber committed to more than 4,000 robotaxis across international markets including Europe.
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ECB Economists Say an AI Valuation Correction Is Likely
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ECB Economists Say an AI Valuation Correction Is Likely
European Central Bank economists wrote that research on past technological revolutions points to a likely correction in current stock valuations, with the drawdown arriving whether or not investors are being irrational about AI.
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Korean Retail Investors Pile Into US Stocks
IPO$4.5B in July
Korean Retail Investors Pile Into US Stocks
South Korean retail investors made $4.5 billion in net purchases of US securities in July, part of $73.6 billion in 2025 alone, as domestic market volatility pushes 'ant investors' toward US equities and leveraged semiconductor ETFs.
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CXMT's Rise to China's Most Valuable Firm, Explained
IPO$524B market cap
CXMT's Rise to China's Most Valuable Firm, Explained
Memory chipmaker CXMT overtook Tencent as China's most valuable listed company just weeks after a 466% IPO debut, putting a number on how central memory chips have become to China's AI buildout.
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OpenAI's Revenue Run-Rate Doubles to $40B Pre-IPO
IPO$40B run-rate
OpenAI's Revenue Run-Rate Doubles to $40B Pre-IPO
OpenAI's revenue run-rate has topped $40 billion, roughly double where it stood at the end of 2025, sharpening the case for its Wall Street debut even as the risks Pulse flagged in its IPO warning coverage remain unresolved.
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The IPO Window Is Open for Four Companies, Not Forty
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The IPO Window Is Open for Four Companies, Not Forty
The 2026 tech listing boom is real in aggregate and concentrated in practice: a handful of megacap names carry the volume while the median venture-backed company still cannot clear the bar underwriters are setting.
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AI's Best Exits Are Trades, Not Listings
IPO$7B+ largest AI trade sale
AI's Best Exits Are Trades, Not Listings
Stripe's $7 billion purchase of OpenRouter, SpaceX's Cursor deal and consolidation among eVTOL makers point to strategic acquisition replacing the public offering as the primary liquidity path for AI-era companies.
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Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on a Stunning Turnaround
IPO$29.5B market cap
Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on a Stunning Turnaround
Reddit joins the S&P 500 before markets open on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta, following a stock rally triggered by the inclusion announcement.
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This Week's IPO Filings Are Mostly Small Shells
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This Week's IPO Filings Are Mostly Small Shells
Eight S-1-family filings hit the SEC between August 13 and 17, and none are venture-scale tech debuts -- a reminder that most weeks in an active IPO year still produce shell registrations and small financials, not headline listings.
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What's Left in the 2026 IPO Pipeline
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What's Left in the 2026 IPO Pipeline
SpaceX's $1.77 trillion June debut made Q2 2026 the biggest quarter for U.S. IPOs on record, and OpenAI and Anthropic are both racing toward their own public listings before year-end -- the two biggest names left in a pipeline that's otherwise thinning out.
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Cooling Inflation, Intel Raise Lift the AI Trade
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Cooling Inflation, Intel Raise Lift the AI Trade
A cooler-than-expected inflation report and Intel upsized $20 billion stock sale helped push the odds of a Fed hold at the September meeting to 67%, up from 55%, a backdrop that matters for how pending mega-IPOs get priced this fall.
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The 2026 IPO Class Scorecard: Who's Actually Winning
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The 2026 IPO Class Scorecard: Who's Actually Winning
A hot IPO window doesn't guarantee a hot stock afterward -- Cerebras is down sharply on its second earnings report even after raising guidance, while Reddit and SanDisk show post-listing performance hinges on execution, not debut pricing.
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US IPO Proceeds Are Running 7x Ahead of 2025
IPO$114.1B raised YTD
US IPO Proceeds Are Running 7x Ahead of 2025
SEC data shows traditional US IPOs raised roughly $114.1 billion through June 30, more than seven times the $14.8 billion raised over the same period in 2025, spread across AI infrastructure, industrials, healthcare and consumer sectors.
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Anthropic Backers Model a $2-3 Trillion October IPO
IPO$2T-$3T (modeled)
Anthropic Backers Model a $2-3 Trillion October IPO
Anthropic investors are modeling a $2 trillion IPO valuation for October, with some projecting as high as $3 trillion, based on annualized revenue expected to reach $100 billion to $120 billion by year-end.
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SharonAI Amends IPO Filing as Neocloud IPO Wave Builds
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SharonAI Amends IPO Filing as Neocloud IPO Wave Builds
SharonAI Holdings, an Australian neocloud operator partnering with Nvidia on GPU clusters, filed an amended S-1 registering $691.7 million in convertible notes and 26 million resale shares as it builds out AI data center capacity.
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Anthropic Reportedly Plans $2 Trillion IPO for October
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Anthropic Reportedly Plans $2 Trillion IPO for October
Anthropic is preparing a stock listing that investors and bankers believe could value the company near $2 trillion as soon as October, the largest public offering in history and more than double its last private mark of $965 billion.
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Six Companies Filed for US Listings This Week: The S-1 Rundown
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Six Companies Filed for US Listings This Week: The S-1 Rundown
At least six companies filed IPO paperwork with the SEC on August 12, spanning AI infrastructure, biopharma, fintech and minerals -- a reminder the listing pipeline stays busy behind mega-IPO headlines like Anthropic's.
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Unitree's $9B IPO Subscription Closes, Debut Set for Late August
IPO~$900M raise at $9B valuation
Unitree's $9B IPO Subscription Closes, Debut Set for Late August
Unitree's STAR Market IPO subscription window closed Wednesday after pricing at 150.80 yuan a share and a $9 billion valuation, with the humanoid robot maker's Shanghai trading debut now expected between August 17 and 21.
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Robinhood's YC-Linked Retail Fund Nears NYSE Debut
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Robinhood's YC-Linked Retail Fund Nears NYSE Debut
Robinhood Ventures Fund II, a closed-end fund giving retail investors exposure to 80 early-stage startups linked to Y Combinator, closes its share-request window August 12 ahead of a planned NYSE debut at $25 a share on August 13.
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Chinese Copper Foil Maker Londian Wason Preps NYSE Debut
IPO$75M target
Chinese Copper Foil Maker Londian Wason Preps NYSE Debut
Londian Wason New Energy Tech, a Shenzhen-based electrolytic copper foil producer for EV batteries, set terms to raise $75 million on the NYSE under ticker FOIL, with pricing expected around August 12.
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Biotech IPO Window Closes Its Strongest Week Since Spring
IPO~$972M, 4 deals
Biotech IPO Window Closes Its Strongest Week Since Spring
BlossomHill and Latigo Biotherapeutics both closed upsized IPOs by August 10, capping a four-deal stretch that also included Braveheart Bio and Attovia Therapeutics pricing above or near the top of their ranges.
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Unitree's STAR Market IPO Subscription Opens at $9B
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Unitree's STAR Market IPO Subscription Opens at $9B
Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO subscription formally opened at a roughly $9 billion valuation, the first profitable, scaled humanoid robotics company to go public on a major exchange.
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Attovia Therapeutics Climbs 29% After $289M IPO
IPO$289M IPO
Attovia Therapeutics Climbs 29% After $289M IPO
Attovia Therapeutics priced an upsized $289 million IPO and climbed 29% on debut, the fourth biotech in two weeks to price well above its original terms.
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Caris Leads a Wild Week for Recent IPO Stocks
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Caris Leads a Wild Week for Recent IPO Stocks
Caris Life Sciences jumped 21.6% on a beat-and-raise quarter while BillionToOne fell 29.8% despite beating estimates, the sharpest split in the Renaissance IPO Index in weeks.
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BillionToOne's Selloff Is a Warning for Biotech IPOs
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BillionToOne's Selloff Is a Warning for Biotech IPOs
BillionToOne beat Q2 estimates by a wide margin and still fell nearly 30% because it reiterated rather than raised guidance -- a signal about how little room newly public companies have left to disappoint.
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What BofA's Extreme Bull Signal Means for Your Marks
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What BofA's Extreme Bull Signal Means for Your Marks
BofA's Bull & Bear indicator hit 9.7, its highest since 2021 and above the firm's own 8.0 sell threshold — a trace's-take on what that extreme reading should change about how GPs mark portfolio companies against public comps.
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Biotech IPOs Are Pricing Above Range Again
IPO$532.5M combined
Biotech IPOs Are Pricing Above Range Again
BlossomHill and Braveheart Bio both upsized and priced above their original ranges this week, the clearest two-deal signal yet that the biotech IPO window -- closed to all but the strongest names in 2024-2025 -- is reopening.
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Latigo Biotherapeutics Jumps 17% in $345.6M IPO
IPO$345.6M IPO
Latigo Biotherapeutics Jumps 17% in $345.6M IPO
Latigo Biotherapeutics priced its upsized IPO at $18 a share for $345.6 million and jumped 17% in its Nasdaq debut, the third biotech offering in two weeks to price above range.
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Wall Street Rallies on Weak Jobs Data as Software Earnings Beat
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Wall Street Rallies on Weak Jobs Data as Software Earnings Beat
A weak July jobs report sent stocks to a broad rally on rate-cut bets, with Atlassian and Twilio posting blowout earnings beats -- even as Bank of America's own sentiment gauge hit its most bullish reading since 2021.
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SpaceX Swings From Post-Earnings Drop to 16% Rally
IPO$7.81B Q2 revenue
SpaceX Swings From Post-Earnings Drop to 16% Rally
SpaceX stock fell 8% after a Q2 earnings beat spooked investors on capex, then rallied 15.83% three days later as its first lockup expiration passed without heavy selling and the Cursor deal stayed on track.
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BofA's Sell Signal Hits Highest Level Since 2021
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BofA's Sell Signal Hits Highest Level Since 2021
Bank of America's Bull & Bear sentiment indicator jumped to 9.7 -- its highest reading since 2021 and above the firm's own 8.0 sell-signal threshold -- even as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both rallied Friday on weak jobs data.
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Atlassian Stock Jumps 36% on Cloud, AI Earnings Beat
IPO+35.6% stock move
Atlassian Stock Jumps 36% on Cloud, AI Earnings Beat
Atlassian shares surged as much as 35.6% after fiscal Q4 revenue beat estimates by $100M+ on 31% cloud growth, with co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes pledging to personally buy up to $250M of stock.
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Cloudflare Stock Jumps 15% on Earnings Beat
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Cloudflare Stock Jumps 15% on Earnings Beat
Cloudflare shares jumped as much as 17% after beating Q2 estimates and raising full-year guidance, with AI-driven demand for network security and infrastructure cited as the key growth driver.
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BlossomHill Prices Upsized $150M IPO, Debuts on Nasdaq
IPO$150M IPO
BlossomHill Prices Upsized $150M IPO, Debuts on Nasdaq
BlossomHill Therapeutics priced an upsized IPO at $16 a share for $150M and began trading on Nasdaq under BLSM, more than 50% above the $100M target Pulse flagged when the company first filed.
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Braveheart Bio Prices Upsized $382.5M IPO on Nasdaq
IPO$382.5M IPO
Braveheart Bio Prices Upsized $382.5M IPO on Nasdaq
Braveheart Bio priced its IPO at $18 a share, above range, raising $382.5M for a cardiovascular drug licensed from China's Hengrui Pharmaceuticals -- a sign the biotech IPO window is reopening after two rough years.
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SpaceX's Rocky Unlock Is a Warning for OpenAI
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SpaceX's Rocky Unlock Is a Warning for OpenAI
SpaceX shares are trading near $108, down more than half from their post-IPO high, just as the first of four straight monthly unlock events begins -- a live case study for OpenAI and Anthropic on what happens once lockups start expiring.
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Unitree Prices IPO at $9B on Shanghai Market
IPO$904M IPO, ~$9B valuation
Unitree Prices IPO at $9B on Shanghai Market
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.80 yuan a share, raising roughly $904 million and valuing China's first publicly traded humanoid robot maker at about $9 billion.
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