The Impact of Market Volatility on IPO Performance

Market volatility, the statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index, is an omnipresent force in the financial world. Its influence is particularly acute during one of the most critical corporate events: an Initial Public...

The AI Gold Rush Begins: OpenAI Goes Public

The landscape of global commerce is perpetually shifting, but few events promise a tremor as profound as the initial public offering of a company like OpenAI. The mere announcement of an OpenAI IPO would not merely be a financial transaction; it would be the official...

A Look Inside the IPO Roadshow

The IPO roadshow is a meticulously choreographed, multi-city marathon where a company’s senior leadership and its investment bankers present their investment thesis directly to the world’s most influential institutional investors. This critical period, typically...

From Non-Profit to Public: The OpenAI IPO Story

Founded in 2015 as an artificial intelligence research laboratory, OpenAI’s origins were rooted in a radical, counter-cultural ideal: to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Its initial structure was a 501(c)(3) non-profit,...