How companies actually went public
A research repository of completed go-public transactions — traditional IPOs, de-SPACs, direct listings, reverse mergers, spin-offs and uplistings. Each page reconstructs how the transaction was structured, who received the economic benefit, what valuation public investors paid and what happened after closing.
Every material fact carries a pinpoint citation identifying the form, filing date, accession number, named section and page — not just a link to a 400-page prospectus. Every calculated value shows its formula and the source of each input, and is re-checked on every build.
What makes a page here different
Completion is verified, not assumed
A filed registration statement does not prove a transaction closed. Each record reconciles an evidence package — effectiveness, final prospectus, Exchange Act registration, first trading and closing disclosure — before it is published.
Reconciliation is the product
Sources and uses, capitalization, dilution and sponsor economics are dispersed across filings and exhibits. The analysis reconstructs them into one reconciled view and shows where the underlying figures disagree.
Reported facts and site analysis stay separate
Issuer representations, this site's calculations, its assumptions and its conclusions are labelled distinctly. Calculations live in a structured register with machine-checked arithmetic.
Pages are maintained after closing
Trading performance, subsequent operating results, lockup expirations and later filings are tracked at one, three, six and twelve months, with a visible revision history.
Latest analyses
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Bob's Discount Furniture 2026 IPO
Bob's Discount Furniture sold 19.45 million primary shares at $17.00 in February 2026, raising $330.65 million gross and approximately $302.7 million net. The proceeds repaid a term loan borrowed three months earlier to help fund a $423.3 million dividend to pre-IPO holders. The offering was therefore principally a refinancing of a shareholder distribution rather than a source of growth capital, and Bain Capital retained approximately 73.2% after the over-allotment.
Coverage
The repository begins with completed 2026 transactions and works backward by year. Coverage rules, the transaction taxonomy and the SPAC policy — a completed de-SPAC receives one integrated analysis running from the SPAC's original IPO S-1 through the completed business combination — are set out in the coverage policy.
Structured data for every published transaction is available at /data/transactions.json.