Generate Biomedicines made its public debut last week. The clinical‑stage company, which positions itself as a pioneer in AI‑driven drug design and development, enters the market with a pitch that its generative biology platform can accelerate and broaden therapeutic discovery.

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Generate Biomedicines (GENB) opened on February 27 at $15.00. The company priced 25M shares at $16.00. The deal priced at the midpoint of the $15.00-$17.00 target range. Generate Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company that says it is "pioneering the AI revolution in biotechnology and drug design and development."

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Fortress Value Acquisition V (FVAV) opened on February 26 at $10, after it priced its initial public offering of 25M Class A ordinary shares at a price of $10.00 per share.
APEX Tech Acquisition (TRAD) opened on February 26 at $9.98, after it priced its initial public offering of 10M units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one ordinary share and one right to receive one-fourth of one ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination.
MOZAYYX Acquisition (MZYX) opened on February 25 at $9.96, after it priced its upsized initial public offering of 26.1M units at $10.00 per unit.
ClearThink 1 Acquisition (CTAA) opened on February 24 at $9.95, after it priced its initial public offering of 12.5M units at $10.00 per unit.

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Generate Biomedicines – up over 6% at $13.48.

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UPCOMING IPOS: Upcoming IPO and direct listings expected include Liftoff, Cerebras Systems, ayPay (PAYP), and OpenAI.

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Liftoff Mobile - The company announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The total number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The offering is subject to market and other conditions and the completion of the SEC's review process.
Cerebras Systems – The company has filed confidentially for a U.S. initial public offering, The Information's Valida Pau and Katie Roof report. The re-filing comes after a major sales pact with OpenAI, the authors note.
PayPay Corporation - The company filed for an initial public offering of American depositary shares, or ADSs, and has applied to list the ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "PAYP." The prospects filed with the SEC states, "As Japan's leading financial technology company, we are dedicated to our goal of becoming a digital finance platform for all... We launched this service in October 2018 and it rapidly expanded to become a nation-wide leading cashless payments ecosystem that had approximately 72 million PayPay registered users as of December 31, 2025, representing a penetration of 75% among 96 million smartphone users in Japan. With the acquisition of PayPay Card Corporation in October 2022, our platform evolved to a next-generation payments ecosystem, seamlessly integrating our code-based payment and credit card payment services through our PayPay app."
OpenAI - The company is accelerating its plans for a public listing as rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, now planning on listing in Q4 of this year, Berber Jin, Corrie Driebusch, and Kate Clark of The Wall Street Journal report. OpenAI is holding discussions with Wall Street banks about a potential initial public offering and has hired several executives to oversee its finance team, sources told the Journal.
SpaceX - Elon Musk is targeting mid-June for the timing of SpaceX's initial public offering, IPO, Ivan Levingston, Stephen Morris, and Mercedes Ruehl of The Financial Times report, citing five people familiar with the matter. The company is looking to raise $50B at a valuation of $1.5T, the sources added.

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