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U.S. cannabis firm Verano to go public with US$2.8B valuation

Dec 4, 2020
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By David George-Cosh

I need a "heads up" when "public." Could not find a way to purchase the original company.

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New board. This is where it is at. I could use someone to add content.


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Yep,,, been hearing about this company. Thanks

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/bill-gates-backed-ev-battery-supplier-to-go-public-through-spac-deal.html

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050115/how-track-upcoming-ipos.asp

Unity Technologies
Ticker: NYSE (U)
Trad IPO
Filing date:
IPO date:

Snowflake
Ticker: SNOW
Trad IPO
Filing date: Aug 24th
IPO date:

Asana
Ticker: SANA
Direct listing
IPO date:

JFrog
Ticker: FROG
Trad IPO
IPO date:

Corsair Gaming
Ticker: CRSR
Trad IPO
IPO date:

Sumo Logic
Ticker: SUMO
Trad IPO
Filing date: Aug 24th
IPO date:

Palantir Tech
Ticker: PLTR
Direct listing
Filing date: July 6th
IPO date: late September

AirBNB
IPO date:

Bentley Systems
Ticker: BSY
Trad IPO
IPO date:

Amwell (American Well)
Ticker: AMWL
Trad IPO
IPO date:

Grabbed some SQ under 13.

**KEYO** THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP . I'm already in & my recent attempts to buy more have caused it to go up. The float is small & it's locked up. Can't buy KEYO in big blocks. Just not possible.

NantHealth, LLC will be going public probably this year. Last September, Forbes wrote...

Why didn't I hear about this?

12/22/2014 @ 10:12AM Forbes
The IPO Class Of 2015: After Alibaba, Is Uber The Next Blockbuster?

The years-long resurgence of the IPO market in the wake of the financial crisis has been marked by several trends, one of which is the regular appearance of blockbuster offerings. Since 2010, each year has included at least one deal that captured the market’s attention whether because of its size (Alibaba.com in 2014), its stumbles (Facebook in 2012) or its circumstances (General Motors GM -0.99% in 2010). Looking ahead to 2015, Uber is starting to look like it could be that blockbuster.

“Every year there’s been that one defining deal,” says Paul Bard, director of research at IPO-focused Renaissance Capital. There are other candidates for 2015 – Airbnb, Pinterest, Snapchat are among the 40 tech firms valued at more than $1 billion according to venture-capital tracker CB Insights – but to Bard, “Uber is the wildcard.”

Bard sees Uber — officially Uber Technologies — positioned for an IPO in the next 12-16 months. “If not 2015, then early 2016,” he says.

If the car-sharing app does hit the market in 2015 it will likely be faced with a market that is growing increasingly discerning with respect to new offerings. The past 12 months were the best for deals and dollars since 2000, but returns fell back toward long-term averages after a stellar 2013 and more than half the companies that debuted have fallen below their offering prices. (See “Alibaba Leads Big IPO Year, But Returns Slip.”)

Still, market participants say the appetite for new growth companies remains.

“We’ve never been busier,” says Neil Dhar, who runs the capital markets business at PwC. “I’m bullish about momentum. The good news is because there’s so much competition it’s a bit of survival of the fittest”

That upbeat view reflects a generally sanguine perspective that the IPO market will stay hot. If it does, some of the themes and companies below are likely to be featured.

Hot Wheels

Uber may go public in 2015, but it won’t be because it needs the money. The on-demand car company raised $1.8 billion in fresh funding at a $40 billion valuation in early December, including a $600 million investment from China’s Baidu , and had Goldman Sachs out pitching clients on a convertible debt offering that would drop another few billion into the company’s coffers. But both deals add to the roster of shareholders for whom a public offering is the likeliest opportunity to cash out. The Goldman-sold convertible deal is actually said to include a coupon that escalates if the company doesn’t conduct an IPO in the next four years.

It seems unlikely the car-hailing company gets that far without hitting the public markets. Bard thinks the offering could come in late 2015.

Not A Borrower, But A Lender Be

Modified Shakespeare lines aside, the success of lending platforms like OnDeck and Lending Club in December sets the stage for more activity in the space in 2015. Both had sparkling day-one debuts, rising 56% and 40% respectively.

Matt Harris of Bain Capital Ventures, an investor in OnDeck, says he’s been eyeing about a dozen companies in the space that could be earmarked for the public markets, given the lack of natural buyers. “The banks can’t buy these businesses and tech hasn’t shown interest in what would be quite a different model for them,” says Harris.

Now that both Lending Club and OnDeck have a public currency with which to do deals – Harris says Lending Club has an impressive “funding chassis” with the billions of dollars interested in funding unsecured consumer loans, which would make deals for lenders accretive – there may be some names that never reach the IPO stage.

Still, Bard highlights a handful of firms including the likes of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending platform, and SoFi, a student loan financing operation, as potential 2015 debuts. Just recently, SoFi Chief Executive Mike Cagney told Forbes the company is aiming for a 2015 IPO.

Post-GoPro Perils

GoPro showed a real appetite for name-brand consumer devices more than doubling after its June IPO, and the forthcoming Apple Watch may go a long way toward finally bringing wearables to the fore in the way techies have been predicting for years.

Given that trend, the wearables market looks ripe for a move into the public market. Bloomberg reports fitness-tracking wristband company Fitbit has tapped Morgan Stanley to pursue a deal. Rival Jawbone, which also makes portable Bluetooth speakers, struggled to fill a funding round this fall, but could still be in play for an IPO depending on how investor expectations develop.

The Valuation Game

A potential complication, Bard points out, is a divergence in private and public market valuations. Bain Capital Ventures’ Harris agrees, calling 2014 “a nearly flawless year in the private markets, [but] hardly been flawless in the IPO market.”

Box is one company that got caught in that trap, as the timing of its public filing in March coincided with a revaluation of high-growth technology stocks. Expect the cloud storage company to try again in 2015.

Other companies that held off on potential 2014 deals include online marketing software firm Yodle and domain name seller GoDaddy, Triton Research notes in a recent report. One other, Good Technology, could look even more attractive in the wake of the recent hacking attack on Sony. The company makes security software applications for mobile devices, particularly crucial for businesses and governments dealing with sensitive data.

Restaurant Row

The chase for the next Chipotle Mexican Grill has been a fun parlor game for the past few years, with deals like Zoe’s Kitchen, Noodles & Co and Potbelly coming in and out of favor as buyers bet on fresh concepts with small footprints thriving through geographic expansion. In 2015 Shake Shack looks likely to join the ranks, given reports it has tapped bankers with an eye toward a $1 billion valuation.

Hotel-Killer Holdout

Airbnb would seem a natural fit for a 2015 IPO, given its $10 billion-plus valuation, but the company seems more inclined to pull whatever levels it can to hold off on a public debut. In October the Wall Street Journal reported the company was arranging a round of employee share sales that would bring in new investors at a $13 billion valuation.

Money Manager Migration

Coming up with ways for employees to get liquidity without an IPO is one of the creative efforts some companies have explored, but creativity isn’t limited to tech companies and venture capitalists. More and more, mutual funds and hedge funds that traditionally bought shares in and after initial public offerings have jumped the divide between public and private markets. Plenty of managers owned stakes in Facebook before its 2012 IPO and the trend has just grown more common since, including in Uber’s most recent fundraising.

Uber IPO as this years highest valued IPO

2014 was a significant year for IPOs. While its unlikely that 2015 will also be, i think many of them are eyeing on Uber to be the highest valued IPO this year.The company has a valuation of $40 billion. It has raised a capital of almost 10 times its rivals.
When Uber does IPO its going to be best offering this year.

PharmaCan Capital Corp. Announces Commencement of Trading on the TSX Venture Exchange
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec. 17, 2014) -

PharmaCan Capital Corp. (TSX VENTURE:MJN) ("PharmaCan") is pleased to announce that it has commenced trading on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") under the symbol "MJN".

As Canada's leading medical marijuana merchant bank, PharmaCan provides capital and strategic partnership to licensed companies, or those actively seeking a license, to produce medical marijuana pursuant to Canada's Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations ("MMPR"). PharmaCan has a diversified portfolio, including five of the twenty-three producers licensed by Health Canada.

"PharmaCan's diversified portfolio includes investments in some of the best companies and management teams operating in the MMPR program," said Paul Rosen, PharmaCan's President & CEO. "PharmaCan and its investees are committed to ensuring that Canadians have stable access to quality-assured medical marijuana, produced in accordance with the MMPR."

Following its public listing, PharmaCan will continue to invest in best-in-class businesses and management teams operating or seeking to operate under Canada's MMPR program.

"The decision to become a publicly listed company was in response to overwhelming interest from potential investors," said Mr. Rosen. "As a well-financed, reliable and experienced partner, PharmaCan is committed to the responsible development of the medical marijuana industry in Canada."

PharmaCan's senior management team is comprised of Paul Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Glen A. Huber, Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer. PharmaCan's Board of Directors is comprised of Lorne Gertner, Paul Rosen, Alan Friedman, Ryan Roebuck, Glen A. Huber, Michael Krestell and Steven Isenberg.

PharmaCan has 34,786,562 common shares issued and outstanding. In connection with completing its listing on the TSX-V, PharmaCan granted an additional 500,000 stock options at an exercise price equal to the greater of i) $1.15 per share, representing the price of PharmaCan's most immediate round of treasury financing, or ii) the closing price of PharmaCan's shares on December 17, 2014, to certain PharmaCan executive officers, directors and consultants, pursuant to PharmaCan's stock option plan.

PharmaCan

PharmaCan is a company in the business of investing in companies either licensed, or actively seeking a license, to produce medical marijuana pursuant to Canada's Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations ("MMPR"). PharmaCan has a diversified portfolio of investments including investments in three of the fifteen companies that are listed on Heath Canada's website as licensed to produce and sell medical marijuana as well as another two of the eight companies that are listed on Health Canada's website as licensed to produce medical marijuana.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Investor Relations
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(416) 504-0004
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Can we keep an eye out for this one?

CDx Life, a Science and Technology Company based in La Jolla, CA, has started taking pre-orders for MyDx - the world's first portable analyzer for everyone.

MyDx leverages technology developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), used by Nasa and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for other applications. Acting as an electronic nose, MyDx is engineered to detect molecules in vapor.

The analyzer itself has a user friendly interface designed to easily communicate with any iOS or Android smartphone. Once the app is downloaded and the device is synced, a very small sample can be placed in the sample chamber, which is then heated to release the chemicals of interest into the vapor phase for detection.

Over the course of the next 24 months, the MyDx team will be rolling out the four different sensors, the first of which is the Canna Sensor - programmed to test for the presence of the most important compounds of interest in Cannabis, including THC and CBD. Using the associated App, MyDx will allow patients to track how each marijuana strain is making them feel or helping them relieve, based on the chemical composition of the plant, not the way it looks, smells or sounds.

"What people are inhaling today is more or less a black box," said Daniel Yazbeck, one of the financial backers of the project. MyDx is a device that will improve consumer's health and empower an industry with the science it deserves to achieve true and practical quality control."
MyDx has launched a campaign on the popular crowdfunding website Indiegogo.com, with an initial goal of pre-selling at least 100 devices in order to predict future demand. Everyone who donates $199.00 or more will save $200 of the projected retail price of $399, and will be the first to help define and receive MyDx before it hits the broader market.
The CDx team has created a product that complements the use of medical marijuana in order to help people in need, such as cancer patients. Consumers can finally learn and understand exactly what and how much they are putting in their bodies.

About CDx
CDx, Inc. was founded on the mission of empowering people to live healthier lives by understanding the purity of everything they eat, drink, and inhale. While CDx plans to ship MyDx globally, the team has made a strategic decision not to offer the cannabis application to customers in states that have not legalized the adult possession and consumption of cannabis either medically or recreationally.
MyDx - A Device for a Better Life

I want to research this ...

Now the waiting game begins as the company prepares for what it hopes will be a quick turnaround time in receiving final inspection. Those hopes have received a boost with recent news Mettrum (TSX:V.MT, Stock Forum) has received its second MMPR, while Aphria (TSX:V.APH, Stock Forum) and TheHydropothecary (soon to go public) have also joined the license holder parade.

AUSTRALIA’S first initial public offering (IPO) in a medicinal marijuana company is three times oversubscribed, giving high hopes to its founder’s ambitions to become “the George Clooney of medicinal cannabis”.

Perth-based Phytotech, due to list on the Australian Securities Exchange on December 22, is seeking to raise A$5 million (R47m). Founder and executive director Ross Smith said investors – some from as far afield as Russia and the US – had already asked for shares worth $A15m.

“South of the equator there’s nothing available in the medicinal cannabis sphere,” Smith said. “We’re going to close it early because it’s so massively oversubscribed.”

Smith set up Phytotech in August to sell medicinal marijuana and develop a disposable device to inhale the drug. He envisions any advertising for the products to run along the lines of the ads for Nestle Nespresso coffee machines that feature Clooney.

“I’d be on the shore of Lake Como, puffing away and two beautiful women would come up and say, ‘Is that a Phytotech?’ and I’d say ‘Why, yes’,” Smith said.

According to the IPO prospectus filed with the stock market regulator, Phytotech plans to grow medicinal grade marijuana in Israel, the only country that allows exports of the drug, for sale in the US, Canada and Europe.

It is also positioning itself for possible changes in Australia. – Reuters

I will start to use this board and the "Public offering" board to help keep an eye out for news of pending IPO's.

IPO REPORT: MBLY http://www.equities.com/editors-desk/investing-strategies/ipo/ipo-report-mobileye-nv-mbly

https://www.youtube.com/user/MobileyeAWS

Just a shout out to Lady'b. Yes alive. Just went for a pack of smokes.

$AMC might be a Chinese stock that goes up!

$AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dalian Wanda Group Corporation Ltd.

Dalian Wanda Group Corporation Limited is a Chinese conglomerate company with activities in real estate, tourism, hotels, and entertainment. It is headquartered in Dalian in Northeast China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalian_Wanda_Group

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2012-05-21/china-company-buys-amc-movie-theater-chain/55106114/1

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-amc-wang-jianlin-china-richest-man-20130911,0,2105429.story#axzz2oxpFJxEU

Any new news on the Bloom Energy IPO?

Smith Electric Vehicles ipo in Q2. According to UK broker W.H.Ireland, newly appointed as house broker to Tanfield Group (LSE:TAN). So somewhere between 4 and 17 weeks away. Presumably preceeded by a publicity roadshow. Meanwhile the only way that a small investor can buy into it is via a stake in Tanfield Group - the UK engineering company who maintain a 27.22% stake in Smith. Tanfield's share price has climbed by a third in the last month in anticipation of the ipo, (and because of worldwide strong growth in demand for powered access platforms, which are their main business).

Well it was a long time coming, but Smith Electric has finally submitted its S-1 Filing for a Nasdaq ipo. May see some estimated/actual valuation figures today?

The filing comes one day after New York voted 'Yes' to Smith's application for tax concessions allowing the establishment of Smith's second US truckbuilding facility, in The Bronx. Stock in the UK company that currently part-owns Smith, Tanfield Group, are up around 28% already this morning on the London stockmarket.

Details Regarding The Upcoming Facebook IPO

In a normal economic year, there are dozens of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Most IPOs are routine affairs in which companies go public by selling shares of their company to raise capital for current and future business needs. Occasionally, an IPO towers above the rest and dominates the IPO market and headlines. The 2012 IPO calendar will be dominated Facebook’s IPO, which is likely to occur in the spring of 2012.

http://rocknj.hubpages.com/hub/Details-Regarding-The-Upcoming-Facebook-IPO

Smith Electric Vehicles ipo coming soon.

Further to my previous hints of something happening soon at Smith Electric Vehicles - this report appeared in the Business News section of The Times (London,UK) yesterday:


Bargain-hunters were looking again at Tanfield, the troubled maker of milk floats and aerial work platforms. A funding crisis and other problems left shares that changed hands for more than 950p in 2007 at 11¼p by last Autumn. Since then, the Tyne and Wear company has rallied to 44¾p, rising a further 1¾p yesterday. The interest lies in Smith Electric Vehicles, the American maker of zero-emission lorries that Tanfield sold to Smith Electric late last year. Earlier whispers that Tanfield may be looking to sell the 32.2 per cent stake that it retained gave way to rekindled speculation of a Nasdaq listing this year. Goldman Sachs was rumoured to be in line to handle a $500 million to $1 billion flotation, which if correct would price Tanfield’s stake at worst at more than double the present market value of the company.
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I own stock in Tanfield Group (LSE:TAN) which is rising strongly ahead of the expected Smith ipo.

Renren:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/renren-shares-are-set-for-market-debut/
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/69305052/
http://www.renaissancecapital.com/Renren-Inc./ipo-RENN.html

HomeAway Files for IPO Valued at as Much as $230 Million

By Nick Turner and Lee Spears - Mar 11, 2011 3:57 PM PT

HomeAway Inc., a vacation-rental website, filed to sell as much as $230 million worth of shares in an initial public offering, joining a resurgence in dot-com companies going public.

Morgan Stanley (MS) will lead the IPO, HomeAway said today in a regulatory filing. The company, which will trade under the ticker “AWAY,” also is working with Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)

HomeAway, a six-year-old company based in Austin, Texas, runs the largest online marketplace for vacation rentals. The company, facing mounting competition from sites such as Airbnb Inc., says it may use some of the IPO proceeds to acquire businesses and add product lines. HomeAway’s IPO is larger than the pending deals of two other Internet companies: LinkedIn Corp. and Pandora Media Inc.

“This is certainly one of the larger venture-backed IPOs to have filed in quite some time,” said Lise Buyer, principal of Class V Group, an IPO advisory firm in Palo Alto, California. “There’s clearly an appetite in the marketplace for solid new growth stories.”

HomeAway’s sales climbed 40 percent to $167.9 million last year, according to the filing. That helped the company narrow its net loss to $18.3 million, or 48 cents a share, from $25.8 million, or 70 cents, in 2009.
Rental Listings

HomeAway has more than 540,000 rental listings in 120 countries, according to its website. Homeowners pay an annual fee of about $300 to list, and the site is free for renters. In addition to HomeAway.com, the company runs Vacation Rentals by Owner, or VRBO.com, and VacationRentals.com.

HomeAway raised about $500 million in private capital from Austin Ventures, also based in Austin, and Redpoint Ventures in Menlo Park, California, which first invested in HomeAway in 2005. Redpoint, along with Palo Alto, California-based Technology Crossover Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners, invested $250 million in 2008.

Last year, HomeAway bought Escapia Inc. and Instant Software Inc., providers of software for vacation rentals, which together represent almost 1,700 property-management customers, HomeAway said in October.

The IPO is likely to happen by June, two people familiar with the matter said last month. Pandora, an Internet-radio company, announced plans in February to raise $100 million in an IPO. LinkedIn, a business networking site, filed for an IPO in January that would raise as much as $175 million.

To contact the reporters on this story: Nick Turner in San Francisco at nturner7@bloomberg.net; Lee Spears in New York at lspears3@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Thomas Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net

Zipcar To Go Public, Seeking $89 Million From IPO

On of the world’s top car sharing companies, Zipcar, is planning to make an initial public offering. It recently amended its Securities and Exchange Commission filing, and is now seeking about $89.2 million from sale of 8.3 million shares at around $14-16 each.

The company has been in business since 1999 with regional service for its by-the-hour hybrid rentals. Zipcar has been making money, but also plagued by expenses keeping it from being an outright success story.

Nevertheless, it is moving forward to sell 6.6 million shares with stockholders selling an additional 1.6 million. The deal is being underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Co. and JPMorgan.

The company is expected to be listed on the NASDAQ exchange under “ZIP.” This is essentially what the company netted after losses in 2009, when the green company reported being $4.7 million in the red.

It has garnered 400,000 paying customers in the decade since opening. Some of its IPO will go toward repayment of debt.

Source: http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/04/zipcar-to-go-public-seeking-89-million-from-ipo.html




GNPR

"Smith Electric intends to put 100,000 electric trucks on the road in 4 years."

Quoted from the 3 minute video in this link:

http://www.fouryearsgo.org/2011/03/04/feature/smith-electric-vehicles-4-year-goal/

"Bryan really accomplished his mission at the Table Of Twenty. All twenty companies put in MAJOR orders for electric trucks. It was a major triumph, and it was a game-changer for the industry"


(If that link fails or is discontinued, go to the blog at the fouryearsgo.org website and search for Smith)


Still no date announced for the ipo - but the company is this week taking part in the Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summitt in Indianapolis, so listen out for interviews.

Smith Electric Vehicles ipo, 2011. One to watch for in my view. This company, based in Kansas City, Missouri, was set up in 2009 as the US offshoot of a long-established UK maker of electric vehicles, but purchased that UK parent company on January 1st 2011. The UK company has been building battery powered roadgoing delivery trucks for about 90 years, and many thousands of them have remained in use for 30 years or more. So this is no frivolous speculative venture - this is a company that knows what it's doing, with decades of real experience and expertise to call on.

With highway-capable electric trucks being a relatively unfamiliar concept in the USA, the company has decided not to try and service their emerging customer base from one factory, but to set up local assembly/service facilities in 20 states. The next one is about to be announced (Feb/March) and will likely be in California. Media coverage arising from that will almost certainly be the starting point for their pre-ipo publicity campaign. Boss Bryan Hansel has hinted at mid-2011 for the ipo, and I am guessing maybe August - by which time they might have pencilled in suggested sites for factories 3 and 4?

Their initial KC facility is currently delivering about ten trucks a week, mostly to bigname customers. At present they are all the Smith Newton model, which is the world's biggest highway capable electric truck in regular production.

Range anxiety is an issue with electric cars - but not with depot-based fleets of delivery trucks (such as postal fleets and urban parcel fleets), which cover known routes and return to a central base each night, where they can recharge or can swap battery packs.

I already hold a stake in Tanfield Group - the UK company (London ticker LSE:TAN) which previously owned Smith Electric and which, at the moment, retains a 49% stake in the US company. I expect that percentage to be reduced when new stock is offered in the ipo, or in any interim fundraising. But for the timebeing it allows me to benefit from any pre-ipo excitement that might lift Tanfield Group's stock price.

http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/06/tesla-ipo-set-for-end-of-june.html


this is going to be good, especially withe the increase financing from china, and cozy relationship elon musk is having with hungry venture capitalists.

gl

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I wonder if you have any thoughts on upcoming AOSL (Alpha and Omega Semiconductor) launch ?



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Tesla Motors Plans $100 Million I.P.O.
February 1, 2010, 6:47 am
Tesla

Tesla Motors, the electric car company in Silicon Valley, said on Friday that it had filed plans to sell shares to the public.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla said it was seeking to raise $100 million in an initial public offering, though that amount could change. An offering would be a vindication for the company, which has struggled, sometimes publicly, with technological problems, production delays and internal turmoil, The New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller writes.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, has also battled critics who have doubted whether the company could ever succeed financially.

In the nine months that ended last September, Tesla posted a net loss of $31.5 million on revenue of $93.4 million. Last February, Mr. Musk wrote customers that the company would be profitable by midyear. Tesla has lost money each quarter, and it warned in the filing that revenue would probably fall and losses climb until the Model S, a mass-market sedan, was on the roads.

Tesla told potential investors in the filing that its business model would help it avoid the woes that have beset traditional automakers. Because Tesla designs, manufactures, sells and services its own vehicles, it can operate more cost-efficiently and quickly incorporate customer feedback into production of the cars, it said.

According to the filing, Tesla has sold 937 of its Roadster sports cars, at $109,000 each. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., says the Roadster can accelerate from zero to 60 miles an hour in under four seconds.

Tesla showed the Model S last March and said it would sell for around $57,400. At the time, Mr. Musk said it would be available in 2011, but the due date has since been moved to 2012. The company has warned that it could encounter serious delays, much as the Roadster did. Two thousand people have reserved Model S vehicles with $5,000 deposits, according to the filing.

Tesla has raised about $240 million from investors, including the German automaker Daimler and the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Mr. Musk, who made his fortune when PayPal, a company he co-founded, was sold to eBay, also invested in the company.

Tesla also received a $465 million long-term loan from the Energy Department, which was given warrants to buy up to 9,255,035 common shares upon the closing of the offering at an exercise price of $2.51.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank Securities are listed as underwriters.

Go to Article from The New York Times »
Go to Press Release from Tesla »
Go to S.E.C. Filing from Tesla »

I never got a round TRIT

ITEM 7.01 REGULATION FD DISCLOSURE.




The purpose of this filing is to clarify certain information that was recently forwarded to a limited number of individuals by the Registrant’s investor relations / public relations firm. On September 15, 2009, certain individuals received an email from the Registrant’s investor / public relations firm directing their attention to an article about the Registrant’s recently completed initial public offering because it thought the article would be of interest to those individuals. This article was posted on a third party website, www.seekinglpha.com . The Registrant did not directly or indirectly participate in the creation of this article. While the article generally quoted material directly from the final prospectus for the Registrant’s initial public offering, the author of the article provided readers with his estimates for the Registrant’s revenues and future stock price.


The Registrant wishes to emphasize that it does not adopt or endorse the author’s estimates relating to future revenues and stock prices. To date, the Company has not published any earnings guidance. To the extent the Registrant wishes to provide the investing public with earnings guidance, it will do so through a formal press release and the filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

TRIT up 23% on a down day

Tri-Tech Holding Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ

BEIJING, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIT), a premier Chinese company that engineers, manages and monitors China's municipal sewer systems, natural waterways and resources, announced today its initial public offering (IPO) of 1,700,000 ordinary shares at $6.75 per share. Shares will begin trading tomorrow under the ticker symbol "TRIT" on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Tri-Tech Holding expects to receive net proceeds of approximately $10.18 million from the IPO and intends to use the net proceeds for working capital, product R&D, application expansion and sales and marketing.

TRIT new IPO looking good

NYSE Lowers IPO Public Float Requirement

August 21, 2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission has okayed a proposed rule change filed by the New York Stock Exchange to lower its public float requirement for initial public offerings.

The amendment lowers the public float requirement for IPOs, spin-offs, and companies listed under the Exchange’s Affiliated Company standard from $60 million to $40 million.

The lower public float requirement applies to real estate investment trusts listed under Section 102.05, but not closed-end funds listed under Section 102.04 (which continue to be subject to a $60 million public float requirement ) or special purpose acquisition companies listed under Section 102.06 (which are subject to a $200 million public float requirement).

Comments are due 21 days after publication in the Federal Register.

On Deck - Week of 6/29

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OpenTable, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- OpenTable, Inc., a leading provider of free online reservations for diners and guest management systems for restaurants, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 3,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20.00 per share. A total of 1,572,684 shares are being offered by OpenTable, Inc., and a total of 1,427,316 shares are being offered by selling stockholders. In addition, OpenTable, Inc. has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any. The sole bookrunning manager of the offering is Merrill Lynch & Co. The senior co-manager is Allen & Company LLC, and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and ThinkEquity LLC are the co-managers. OpenTable's common stock will trade on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "OPEN."

A registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2009. Any offer or sale will be made only by means of a written prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from the offices of Merrill Lynch & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 4 World Financial Center, New York, New York 10080.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to their registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About OpenTable, Inc.

OpenTable provides solutions that form an online network connecting reservation-taking restaurants and people who dine at those restaurants. Our solutions include our proprietary Electronic Reservation Book which computerizes restaurants' host-stand operations and replaces traditional pen-and-paper reservation books, as well as www.OpenTable.com, a popular restaurant reservation website which diners use to find, choose and book tables in real-time. The OpenTable network includes approximately 10,000 restaurant customers, spanning all 50 states and select international markets. Since its inception in 1998, the company has seated approximately 100 million diners through online reservations. OpenTable is headquartered in San Francisco, California.


SOURCE: OpenTable, Inc.

OpenTable, Inc.Investor Relations, 415-344-6520investors@opentable.comShannon Stubo, 415-344-4200Senior Director, Corporate Communicationssstubo@opentable.comCopyright Business Wire 2009

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