Another day, another deal. That’s sometimes how it feels around the GeekWire newsroom as we track the latest venture rounds, private equity buyouts, acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs and every other transaction.… Read More
In a region better known for its tech startups and legions of software engineers, it’s biotech companies that have helped lead a recent IPO boom in the state of Washington,… Read More
Eliem Therapeutics joined the ranks of publicly traded companies from Washington state, pricing 6.4 million shares at $12.50 and raising $80 million. It originally planned to sell 4.5 million shares… Read More
The upcoming public offering for Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company Absci reflects a soaring IPO market and adds to the growing prosperity of Pacific Northwest biotech companies. The company’s success also… Read More
Another day, another deal. Keeping up with the flurry of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs and venture capital these days is no easy task. In fact, IPO dollar volume for 2021 has… Read More
SPACs. IPOs. M&A. The past 12 months ushered in a frenzy of deal activity, with mammoth public offerings and blockbuster acquisitions. Today in GeekWire Awards voting, we’re recognizing some of… Read More
Sana Biotechnology raised $587.5 million in an initial public offering, a significant cash haul that the 3-year-old Seattle company will use to continue a quest to treat disease using cutting-edge… Read More
Editor’s note: Sana Biotechnology priced shares on Wednesday evening, raising $587.5 million. See full story here. Sana Biotechnology — the Seattle upstart that’s looking to treat a variety of… Read More
Less than three years after it was founded and with no revenue on the books, Sana Biotechnology filed to go public on Wednesday in what would be the latest Seattle… Read More
In a year when large swaths of the economy sputtered due to the pandemic, Wall Street opened its doors to new entrants with 218 companies raising $78 billion through initial… Read More
Qualtrics, which splits its headquarters between Seattle and Provo, Utah, is aiming to go public at a valuation of $12 billion to $14.4 billion, according to a report by CNBC.… Read More
Editor’s note: Kristen Hamilton is a Seattle entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Koru and Onvia, helping to lead the latter company to an initial public offering in 2000. She wrote… Read More
Leen Kawas is truly a unicorn. The 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of Seattle biotechnology company Athira Pharma would be the first woman to guide a company to an initial public… Read More
Another company is zooming onto Wall Street, signaling that the window for initial public offerings is opening up even amid a fragile period for the global economy. ZoomInfo Technologies, a… Read More
DoubleDown Interactive is rolling the dice on an initial public offering, hoping to raise up to $100 million on the Nasdaq stock market. The company, which has longtime roots in… Read More
Federal regulators are looking into Slack’s stock market debut earlier this year as part of a broader investigation focused on recent tech IPOs, according to a new report. The Wall… Read More
WeWork’s dramatic fall from grace, which saw its valuation fall from $47 billion to a reported $8 billion amid an IPO fiasco, was just one example of a larger reckoning… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies had a heck of a first day as a public company. Shares of the Seattle-based biotech, which makes technology to diagnose and treat diseases by reading the immune… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies has raised the price for its initial public offering, putting itself in a position to raise more cash than any other biotech IPO this year. The Seattle-based company,… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies, a high-flying startup that makes technology to read the human immune system, has officially filed to go public and seeks to raise $230 million from investors. Founded in… Read More
The first wave of 2019 initial public offerings appears back on track after the government shutdown, with Slack announcing Monday that it has submitted a draft registration statement to the… Read More
Qualtrics, which sells software that helps companies understand how to keep customers satisfied, is going public. The company, which has co-headquarters in Provo, Utah and Seattle, plans to raise $200… Read More
Shares in Elastic, a software-as-a-service company that helps other companies find, sort, and analyze their internal data, soared Friday in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Elastic’s stock… Read More
Avalara is looking to bring its beach motif and signature orange to the New York Stock Exchange. The Seattle company, which makes software to help companies better adhere to complex… Read More
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning and before ringing the opening bell got a few chills. With Smartsheet branding draping… Read More
nLight priced its initial public offering above the expected range at $16 per share on Thursday night as the Vancouver, Wash.-based laser-maker raised $96 million. It is expected to start… Read More
Smartsheet is gearing up to go public this week, and Wall Street appears to like what it sees. The Bellevue, Wash.-based software company today boosted the anticipated stock price range… Read More
Pivotal broke free of the Dell Technologies conglomerate Friday morning, listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange at $15 and becoming the latest enterprise tech company to go… Read More
Smartsheet plans to raise as much as $120 million through its upcoming initial public offering, new documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show. The 13-year-old Bellevue, Wash.-based software… Read More
The way Steve Singh sees it, big changes are coming to the enterprise software world. “There will be a next generation SAP or Oracle that will be created in the… Read More