This situation highlights what many are beginning to see as the main issue of junior markets like AIM. Although ASOS was able to build a successful company while listed, they’ve reached a pivotal point where growth is no longer possible without graduating to a main market.
2021 was a big year for IPOs. With almost 1,500 companies listing around the world, the number of IPOs nearly doubled in 2021 compared to the year before. The amount of capital raised surpassed $525 billion.
There is likely to be huge interest in Robinhood’s IPO, given the swirling speculation about the company on social media forums and the media coverage the company received as it became a central figure in the GameStop craze earlier in the year.
New research from Globacap, the end-to-end capital management ecosystem, has revealed that UK firms have raised approximately £615 billion privately during the pandemic despite the economic conditions.Many firms have chosen to raise money privately rather than seeking IPOs and on a particularly positive note, a quarter raised more private investment than expected during Covid.
In 2017, UiPath introduced their vision of ‘a robot for every person.’ Borrowed from Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who, in the 1970s, set the goal of putting a ‘computer on every desk.’ Dines has predicted similarly, that there would be a software robot for every person.
LeBron James or Michael Jordan might be the best basketball player, but if you gave them ice skates, I’m not sure they’d be Wayne Gretzky.I think there are a lot of SPACs now. Some will do well and some won’t. For the right companies, SPACs are great vehicles, but it’s not a fit for everybody.
Recently there was a scandal that we covered at #DisruptionBanking involving German digital payment giant Wirecard. € 1.9 billion went missing. The story may have led the Chinese government to understand that it needs to scrutinize Fintech companies more; and that fraud does happen in this sector.
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