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Topic: IPO

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.

Curious case of Lenskart co-founder Sumeet Kapahi’s ‘untraceable’ Delhi University degree & marksheet

DRHP document of company going for IPO states that its global head of sourcing cannot trace his B.Com degree & marksheet from Delhi University.

Indians zoom past China on private jets, tale of the fake embassy & world’s 2nd biggest IPO market

BBC reports on ‘positive move’ of India resuming tourist visas for Chinese nationals after nearly five years and Scotch market in India.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.