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Topic: IPO

Iran conflict jolts Indian IPO market, threatens slowdown after two record years

Potential issuers now have to contend with heightened volatility denting investor appetite and clouding visibility on valuations.

Sify Infinit to seek $4.2 billion valuation in India IPO

The unit of Nasdaq-listed Sify Technologies Ltd has reportedly begun investor meetings to raise Rs 3,700 crore through a share sale in mid-March

ThePrint Off The Cuff with Ashishkumar Chauhan, National Stock Exchange CEO and MD

Ashishkumar Chauhan, National Stock Exchange CEO and MD, was in conversation with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

Largest IPO ever: Musk suggests timing SpaceX IPO with his 55th birthday, Jupiter-Venus alignment

SpaceX is looking to raise as much as $50 billion in the offering at a valuation of about $1.5 trillion, the FT reported, which would make it the largest IPO in history.

$22 billion-capital: How 2025 became the year of the Indian IPO

More than 200 companies either received approval to list from the securities regulator or lodged prospectuses for IPOs this year — the highest tally in 27 years.

Meesho’s big bang market debut: From small social commerce experiment to 79x IPO

Investors placed bids for 221 crore shares against the 27.79 crore shares on offer as Meesho joins a long list of series of tech IPOs capitalising on a thriving primary market.

Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

3 yrs after IPO, ED digs out Varanium Cloud’s ‘pump & dump scheme, 150 shell firms, 400 mule accounts’

ED claims to have busted racket of illegal diversion of public funds after the tech firm raised Rs 36.6 cr in IPO in 2022. Probe stems from FIRs against promoter Harshavardhan Sabale.

Lenskart IPO sold out in 5 hours, but sparks concern over high startup valuations

Analysts say the worry is that mutual funds — whose inflows are dominated by household money — may be paying steep valuations for startups yet to establish profitability.

India’s labour mobility experiment, and inside homecoming of ‘one of the world’s oldest rebels’

Global media also writes on Indian stock markets and a Canada-born separatist who feels 'betrayed' by Carney government’s renewal of ties with India.

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi wants to jail Himanta Sarma but Congress has a Bihar-sized problem in Assam

The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.