On-demand shuttle service and software company Via has confidentially filed to go public, the company said in a statement. The company has not yet determined how many shares will be offered or what the price range for the proposed offering will look like, as is typical for this sort of release. Via follows Reddit in […]
Voi scooters raises $115M Series D round as it preps to enter new cities — and for an IPO
The European e-scooter market is currently the main battleground for companies playing in the micromobility space, taking advantage as they are of Europe’s relatively compact cities and the desire of populations to move to more sustainable transportation. In 2021, players like Tier, Voi and Dott continued to raise VC backing. But the war for funding […]
China’s AI giant SenseTime postpones IPO after US blacklisting
SenseTime, one of China’s most valuable AI solution providers, is putting its $767 million public listing on hold, the company said Monday. The announcement came three weeks after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange gave the go-ahead to SenseTime’s IPO. On December 10, the U.S. Department of Treasury added the firm to a list of “Chinese […]
LG Energy Solution gets Korea Exchange’s nod for planned IPO
LG Energy Solution, the battery unit wholly owned by LG Chem, received preliminary approval for an initial public offering, the Korea Exchange said in a statement on Tuesday. LG Energy Solution is reportedly planning to submit its IPO application to Financial Supervisory Service as early as this week, aiming to list at the end of […]
Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets
Sweetgreen is an incredibly well-backed unicorn that just happens to make salads instead of, say, enterprise software.
3 things GitLab’s wild IPO pricing says about public markets
At minimum, we can say that public markets are as welcoming to high-growth SaaS as private markets. And perhaps, with GitLab’s IPO pricing, slightly warmer.
IsoPlexis, a company uncovering a ‘new layer’ of cell data, aims for $125M in market debut
Shares of IsoPlexis, a company creating tools to zoom in on the flurry of protein activity surrounding a single cell, began trading on Friday. The company aims to raise about $125 million with the IPO, which will be used to build the commercial team and advance the company’s plans to play a bigger part in […]
Geely’s Volvo Cars will file for initial public offering on Stockholm’s Nasdaq
Volvo Cars, the Swedish carmaker owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding, said Monday it would file for an initial public offering and list on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, in a transaction that’s expected to raise up to $2.9 billion (25 billion Swedish kroner). The deal could value the automaker at up to $25 billion, The […]
7 takeaways from Rivian’s IPO filing
Rivian, the electric automaker backed by Amazon, Ford and a cornucopia of heavy-hitting institutional investors like T. Rowe Price Associates and Coatue, finally made its once-confidential IPO filing public. The company, which started in 2009 as Mainstream Motors before adopting the Rivian name two years later, has exploded in terms of people, backers and partners […]
Rivian’s IPO filing is now public
Electric vehicle startup Rivian, which started deliveries of its R1T pickup truck in September, released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States. The S-1 document filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not include terms for its offering. The filing — one of the most anticipated of […]