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Spotify Gears Up For $1B IPO
March 01, 2018

Music streaming service Spotify has filed for a direct listing of its shares as it prepares for its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in late March or early April. According to NPR, instead of entering the market through an IPO, Spotify will simply...

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Reg A+ IPOs Lose More Investors’ Money Than They Make
February 12, 2018

Rules aimed at removing hurdles for small companies to list on the stock market aren’t resulting in much gains for investors. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing Dealogic, out of the eight companies that went public last year under a provision...

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Spotify Gets Ready To Go Public
January 04, 2018

Spotify might go public this year, about one year later than the company originally planned. Unnamed sources told Axios that Spotify filed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents in December for an initial public offering (IPO). The documents are still confidential. Sources in a CNBC report, however, claimed...

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Stitch Fix Investors Fear The “Blue Apron Flu”
December 20, 2017

Stitch Fix had a tough day, with its first earnings report after its IPO sending its shares went into a tailspin. According to Tech Crunch, Stitch Fix closed up just 1 percent on its first day of trading, but did not have a good week...

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Chinese FinTech IPOs Don’t Dazzle Wall Street
December 18, 2017

Newly listed Chinese FinTech companies in the U.S. are struggling on Wall Street, leaving investors with unexpected losses and posing as a setback to other Chinese firms hoping to go public. According to news from The Wall Street Journal, 16 companies from China have debuted on...

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BarkBox’s Next Move: IPO Or Sale
December 06, 2017

The parent company of BarkBox, the subscription service for dog products, is gearing up to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in the next six months. According to news from CNBC, citing Bark co-founder and chief executive Matt Meeker, the company would also consider a sale...

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Blue Apron’s Market Cap Cut By Two-Thirds
November 14, 2017

In Wall Street parlance, a busted initial public offering (IPO) is one that trades below the initial price afforded right out of the gate, on its first day of trading. And so, Blue Apron has the IPO blues, to the tune of 70 percent. Almost that...

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Uber Eyes 2019 IPO
November 10, 2017

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday (Nov. 9) that the company is targeting 2019 for its initial public offering. Speaking during The New York Times’ DealBook conference that was covered by TechCrunch, the new CEO of the ride-hailing company disclosed the targeted IPO timeline. In...

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Stitch Fix Eyes IPO With Almost $1B In Sales
October 20, 2017

Stitch Fix has officially filed for an initial public offering, revealing that it earned nearly $1 billion in annual sales. According to news from The Wall Street Journal, the six-year-old personal shopping startup’s revenue surged to $977 million in the year ending July 29, from $73 million...