Finance Watch: 2021 Now Has More IPOs Than 2020, But With $3.2bn Less
US Total Reaches 87 Compared To Last Year’s 86
Executive Summary
Public Company Edition: It took 256 days for 2021 to surpass the 2020 record of 86 biopharma initial public offerings in the US in one year. Also, Procaps raised $115m ahead of its SPAC merger and aTyr and bluebird raised $75m each.
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