Deals & Exits
Cerebras IPO surges 68% as public markets bless AI hardware challengers
The wafer-scale chip maker prices above range to raise $5.55B, validating architectures built to challenge Nvidia's dominance.
Deals & Exits
SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25T all-stock deal, fusing rockets and AI
Elon Musk consolidates his empire, folding the Grok maker into SpaceX as a wholly owned subsidiary and merging orbital infrastructure with frontier AI.
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Google to acquire cloud-security startup Wiz for $32B in landmark deal
The all-cash agreement — later completed in 2025 — ranks among the largest cybersecurity acquisitions ever and validates a new generation of cloud-native security.
Deals & Exits
Reddit finally goes public, first big social IPO in years
Nearly two decades after its founding, the forum giant lists on the NYSE at a ~$6.4B valuation, buoyed by AI data-licensing deals.
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Instacart and Klaviyo test the reopening as the IPO window cracks open
Two profitable software names price within days of Arm, giving the market its first read on down-cycle exits.
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Arm returns to public markets in the year's biggest IPO
The SoftBank-owned chip designer raises nearly $5B on Nasdaq, a rare bright spot that reopens a frozen IPO window.
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Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44B, then guts it
The world's richest man closes his on-again, off-again acquisition and immediately begins a radical, chaotic restructuring of the social platform.
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Rivian raises ~$12B in the year's biggest IPO, EV hype meets public markets
The Amazon- and Ford-backed truck maker prices above range and briefly commands a market value north of $100 billion — before it has meaningfully delivered.
Deals & Exits
Coinbase goes public in landmark direct listing, crypto's Wall Street moment
The largest U.S. crypto exchange debuts on Nasdaq at a fully diluted valuation near $86 billion, a high-water mark for the ZIRP-era bull run.