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Startups are hoping for a turnaround in funding

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 30, 2024
Startups are suffering a hangover from the binge years of early COVID-era investment.
"A lot of the 2021 tech IPOs did not make public investors money,” says Kyle Lui, general partner at venture capital firm Bling Capital. “Eighty-four percent of the IPOs from 2021 are still underwater.”
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Investors now get to see behind the scenes of newly public Reddit

by Elizabeth Trovall
May 7, 2024
Selling data to help train AI models is a big part of Reddit's plan to make money now that it's a public company.
Reddit went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March.
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Will Reddit's IPO bet pay off?

by Savannah Peters
May 7, 2024
We’ll get quarterly results from Reddit after the bell today, the first chance to see the company's earnings since its stock market debut back in March.
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What is a SPAC, and why do companies use them?

by Stephanie Hughes
Mar 25, 2024
SPAC stands for special purpose acquisition company. It's how the parent company of Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is planning to go public.
Trump Media & Technology Group could start trading on the market as early as today thanks to an assist from a SPAC.
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Reddit plans to let its users get in on the ground floor of its initial public stock offering

by Stephanie Hughes
Mar 11, 2024
The idea is to reward them for their loyalty.
Reddit will reserve about 8% of the shares it’ll be selling for users and moderators, alongside some board members and friends and family of employees.
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Birkenstock IPO stumbles out of the gate

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Oct 11, 2023
The maker of sensible sandals has been around for 250 years. So why did it go public now?
Traders wearing Birkenstock sandals work the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. The 250-year-old company had its IPO today.
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Birkenstock finds comfort and support on the New York Stock Exchange

by Damien McGuinness
Oct 11, 2023
Birkenstock shares started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, pricing its IPO at $46 per share.
Once a fashion faux-pas, Birkenstock — which went public on Wednesday — is now a fashion must-have around the globe.
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A lot goes into pricing a stock IPO

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Sep 14, 2023
And that's before the shares even get to the P in the acronym: the public. First there's the "roadshow," later, hopefully, the "pop."
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Why Birkenstock's IPO filing is encouraging for investors

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 13, 2023
The supportively soled shoe brand is the latest company to file to sell stock to the public after a long IPO drought. The move indicates a stable, confident market.
Birkenstock, the German maker of comfortable footwear, will sell shares on the New York Stock Exchange, signaling a stable financial environment.
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ARM's IPO will test the broader IPO market

by Justin Ho
Sep 6, 2023
The chip design company Arm is going public later this year, in the biggest IPO since 2021. If investors are interested, other companies could start going public, too.
Arm, a British-based company owned by a Japanese firm, designs chips used in most smartphones.
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