General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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SPACs added 52 IPOs in H1 2026 while corporate issuers lost 23, SEC data show
SPACs made up 118 of the 208 IPOs in the SEC's first-half 2026 data, and corporate IPOs fell from 111 to 88. Proceeds still reached more than $137 billion against more than $27 billion a year earlier, carried by fewer, larger corporate deals.
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IPO flows supplied more than half of Morgan Stanley's record $232 billion wealth inflow
Morgan Stanley said more than half of its record $232 billion in third-quarter net new assets was tied to IPO-related flows, including SpaceX. That leaves under $116 billion from all other sources, roughly the total analysts expected if wealthmanagement.com's "doubled" is literal.
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report third-quarter results Tuesday, with Morgan Stanley and Bank of America following Wednesday. Oppenheimer has cut its investment banking revenue estimate by 9.5%, and a bank ETF is down 7.7% in a month, according to The Daily Upside.
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Goldman sees US equity issuance easing to $600bn in 2027 after a record year
Goldman Sachs projects $600 billion of US equity issuance in 2027, with $175 billion from IPOs and $425 billion from follow-ons, convertibles and SPACs. That keeps stock sales near the record the bank expects 2026 to set, with AI spending the reason companies keep coming back to sell.
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A Bloomberg report says Anthropic wants an offering at least the size of SpaceX's record raise. Against a $965 billion private mark, that implies placing roughly 8 percent of the company.
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Oura postponed its Nasdaq IPO in the week it was slated to list, while reporting a profit and projecting 90% revenue growth for fiscal 2026. Bloomberg ties a run of delayed deals to a market waiting on Anthropic, so the test for Oura is whether it comes back on the same terms after that listing.
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Oura postpones a $15.6 billion IPO that would have paid selling shareholders 73% of the cash
Oura has postponed an IPO that valued it at up to $15.6 billion, with existing holders selling 73% of the shares on offer. To pay that price, public buyers had to see an AI health platform in a company whose sales still lean on a ring.
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Missing OpenAI and Anthropic megarounds pull North American venture funding down 35% to $92 billion
Investors put $92 billion into North American startups in the third quarter, 35% less than in the second, Crunchbase data show. Crunchbase ties most of the gap to OpenAI and Anthropic skipping megarounds, so the swing measures two companies' calendars more than investor appetite.
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Renaissance Capital blames issuers' own pricing for the IPO stall since SpaceX's float
Oura, SB Energy, EG Group and Holtec have postponed listings in the four months since SpaceX's $75bn June float. Several have no tie to AI, so founders planning an exit face a pricing problem in every sector and a pipeline drifting toward 2027.
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Anthropic aims to start marketing its IPO by the week of Nov. 9, according to Bloomberg, with investors putting its value near $2 trillion. Teams building on Claude will soon be able to read the vendor's losses and spending plans in quarterly public filings.
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Accelevation's $540 million Nasdaq IPO sends $360 million to private equity backer Olympus Partners and $180 million to the company, before underwriting fees. The company's share is slated to repay debt and cover the costs of the listing, with general corporate purposes listed last.
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Oura postponed its $2.2bn Nasdaq IPO on pricing day after its shares reportedly looked set to sell at the bottom of their $40-to-$44 range. Even $40 a share would have valued the profitable ring maker near $14.2bn, above its 2025 private round, so the dispute is over how far above.
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X-energy's halved shares test the exits behind nuclear's record $6 billion funding year
Investors have put more than $6 billion into nuclear fission and fusion startups in 2026, a record by Crunchbase's count. The IPO market those investors would one day sell into has marked most recent nuclear listings far below their peaks.
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Venture-backed IPO proceeds roughly doubled in 2026's first half even without SpaceX's $86 billion
SpaceX took $86 billion of the $110.8 billion venture-backed companies raised in first-half 2026 IPOs, per Crunchbase, leaving $24.8 billion for the rest. That remainder is still about double last year's $12.6 billion, though the count of listings covers only companies valued at $1 billion or more.
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SoftBank's data centre arm filed on September 1 to raise $5bn to $7bn on Nasdaq, and the price under discussion works out at about 180 times an annualized half-year revenue of $139m against $439bn of contracted backlog.
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Shinhan cuts five Korean brokerage targets after turnover fell 59% from June to September
Shinhan Securities now expects Mirae Asset Securities to earn 16.1 billion won in the third quarter against a 181.5 billion won consensus, and it has taken the stock's price target down 26%, to 37,000 won.
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Three extra years of hold need 22.5% more exit value to leave private equity's investors level
Sebastien Canderle says buyout managers still cannot sell, so capital pension funds had budgeted to arrive after four or five years sits at carrying value while CalPERS's estimated 7% a year keeps compounding against it.
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UNC's endowment turned a crisis-era SpaceX bet into a 30% year
Roughly 10% of the nearly $15bn portfolio sat in one pre-listing position, and even a year at 30% leaves the big-endowment cohort's three-year record a long way behind the S&P 500's.
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