By Jarrett Banks When it comes to regional expansion, Uber Technologies, Inc., Just Eat Takeaway, and Doordash tend to take big bites. Who might be their next M&A target? One prime candidate to consider is food ordering and delivery business...

By Jarrett Banks Online used-car retailers like Vroom, Inc., Shift and Carvana Co. have thrived as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the adoption of e-commerce and the rejection of public transportation. Now Carlotz Inc., a privately held company that...

  XL Fleet Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tod Hynes and Jon Ledecky, Chairman & CEO of Pivotal Investment Corp. II By Jarrett Banks XL Fleet Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tod Hynes wants you to know one thing above...

By Jarrett Banks In an interview with IPO Edge, Jack Cassel, Nasdaq’s VP of New Listings & Capital Markets, said Nasdaq Private Market, which helps pre-IPO companies facilitate shareholder liquidity, is seeing an uptick in its transaction pipeline as the...

The IPO market is on pace to be the hottest in 20 years, with half of the volume coming from sizzling SPAC deals. But as more and more SPACs appear, investors should be increasingly careful about which ones they consider...

Haymaker Acquisition Corp. II is in a Deal to Create Newly-Formed Company ARKO Corp.   Andrew and Steven Heyer’s 2nd Haymaker SPAC to Bring Convenience-Store Owner Public New Company to Be Renamed ARKO Corp. (Expected NASDAQ ticker: ARKO) ARKO is...

SmileDirectClub Inc. Executives Recently Bought $15 Million Worth of Shares in the Company By Jarrett Banks and John Jannarone The Covid-19 pandemic has been accelerating change across a broad swath of industries, including orthodontics, and teledentistry has proven the safest...

IPO Edge hosted a virtual forum with leading SPACs, companies, and advisors to discuss the market outlook, including expected dealmaking in the remainder of 2020. The approximately 90-minute event was held Wednesday, September 2, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. To watch...

  Phosphorus CEO Alex Bisignano By Jarrett Banks The genomics-as-a-service model was flying high before the Covid-19 pandemic. But Phosphorus Chief Executive Officer Alex Bisignano couldn’t sit still. The New York-based firm secured FDA emergency use authorization for in-home saliva-based...

Companies focused on cannabis and related industries have recently discovered several ways to access the capital markets. Increasingly, they have pursued special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, as a path to going public. SPAC fundraising has reached a record in...