Oregon State spinoff Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital Corp XI, targeting public trading with $300M+ in customer orders for next-generation bipedal units.
OpenAI and Anthropic's confidential IPO filings signal a shift in capital allocation toward AI companies, displacing consumer tech from the public market spotlight.
Verdict, Threshold, and Atomico argue that SpaceX's $1.75T IPO and potential OpenAI/Anthropic debuts will attract new capital rather than starve emerging startups.
The open-source database company has tripled its annual run rate and hired a CFO from Snowflake as it eyes public markets.
Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185/share and opened at $385, closing day one at $311 with a $66B market cap.
ChatGPT's user growth slowed dramatically in early 2026 while Claude surged 11x on downloads, putting pressure on OpenAI's IPO ambitions at a critical moment.