ICON raised a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to manufacture more robotic building systems. CNBC reported a $1.4 billion valuation, and the company says 2026 revenue is on pace to quadruple.
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- Builder
- Builder 33%
- Operator
- Operator 32%
- Investor
- Investor 35%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Blockchain.com's $4-6 billion IPO target repeats a markdown its private backers took in 2023
Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million in a U.S. IPO at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against a $14 billion peak in 2022. Most of that discount was already taken in a private round in 2023.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence45
An existing Zipline backer is negotiating to lead the round that reprices it at $20bn
Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Kepler bets $468M that memory density can come from new materials instead of EUV
The company's own number is SRAM as dense as 2nm or 3nm logic with no extreme ultraviolet lithography, and what publicly backs it is two years of mini-fab runs inside a GlobalFoundries plant in Singapore.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives80
- Confidence54
Kepler claims 2nm-class SRAM density out of 28nm fabs without buying EUV
Kepler Computing has $468mn, up to $245mn committed by the US Commerce Department, and mini fabs running inside GlobalFoundries, which is more than most memory startups get and still short of anything a buyer can schedule against.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives80
- Confidence48
Just 27 investor letters filed on SEC's filer-relief plan, leaving major asset managers absent
The largest index fund managers did not file, so the only investor positions on record for widening non-accelerated filer relief come from pension funds, a few asset managers and a fund trade group that wants pay disclosure kept.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives62
- Confidence56
Airwallex marks itself up 37% in six months, and tells you why it is not listing
A $320 million Series H values the payments company at $11 billion on an autonomous-finance story. Its president says it is still "not the best time" for an IPO.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives76
- Confidence55