Terms Tracker for the Week Ending August 21, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. Two more IPOs priced this week, bringing the August count to eight and the 2026 year-to-date count to 143, just one less than full-year 2025’s count of 144. More
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending August 14, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. A quick programming note: I’m on vacation this week, so this will be a shorter edition of the column. More
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending August 7, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. Five more IPOs priced this week to kick off August and bring the 2026 year-to-date count to 140. More
Gravity Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: GVACU) has filed for a $250 million SPAC with a generalist focus, but with strong ties to Asia and the Middle East. The team is led by CEO Iris Zhao, a Malta citizen based in the UAE who brings the group's prior SPAC experience, having served as COO of Mars Acquisition Corp, which IPO'd in 2023. More
Is risk appetite back? The S&P 500 is back near record highs and the Dow is currently topping 53,000 after a brutal July, and that's usually good news for deSPAC announcements and SPACs in general. More
TCGX Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:TCGX) announced the pricing of its $75 million IPO and its shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "TCGX" on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. More
Luminous Acquisition (Nasdaq: LUMIU) has filed for a $105 million SPAC built around the ARC Group investment-banking network. Luminous keeps its mandate broad, planning to search for a target with an enterprise value of $700 million or more in whatever sector best fits its team's background. More
1776 Acquisition Corp (NYSE: SVSX.U) has filed for a $150 million SPAC led by a first-time team with roots in small-cap capital markets and the digital-asset world, casting a wide net across technology-enabled sectors. More
July closed with a cleanup of some of the older vintages of SPACs. Six of the seven SPACs that liquidated in June and July first came public back in 2020 or 2021, and had spent four-plus years on extensions before finally handing cash back to holders. More
Newbridge Acquisition Limited (Nasdaq:NBRG) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with AI and functional water firm Startech Group Inc. in a deal that values the target at a $1 billion base purchase price. More
