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This Week in Pre-IPO

Week of August 17, 2026 – August 23, 2026

5 new IPO deep dives: Checkout.com, Switch, Databento, Public, AlphaSense.

1 · New deep dives

Checkout.com
Checkout.com IPO — $12B After $40B, $300B Volume, Profitable at Last, and No Plans to List

Checkout.com processed $300B+ in 2025 (+64%), grew net revenue 45% in 2024 and 30%+ in 2025, and turned its first full-year EBITDA profit (>10% adjusted margin) — at a $12B internal 409A valuation, 70% below its $40B Series D of January 2022. Every mark since…

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Switch
Switch IPO 2026 — Confidential Filing, a $50–80B Valuation Range, and the AI Data-Center Re-Listing

Switch — taken private by DigitalBridge and IFM at $11B in December 2022 — has reportedly filed confidentially for a US IPO as soon as November 2026 with BofA, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, alongside an a16z-led ~$2B private round near $50B and …

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Databento
Databento IPO — $97M NEA Series B, 6.65× Revenue Growth, and a Valuation Nobody Has Disclosed

Databento closed a $97.0M Series B led by NEA in 2026 (Form D first sale April 29, filed July 9) against $300M+ of demand, reports 6.65× year-over-year revenue growth, 97% enterprise retention and profitability at 24 employees — and has never disclosed revenu…

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Public
Public IPO 2026 — The $1.2B Agentic Brokerage With No Disclosed Revenue and No Filing

Public.com's last disclosed valuation is the $1.2B Series D of February 2021; the $135M Series D-2 in December 2024 (Accel; $105M equity + $30M debt) came with no price, Forge carries an unverified $983M mark, and secondary quotes are drifting down. Revenue h…

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AlphaSense
AlphaSense IPO 2026 — $7.5B Valuation, $700M ARR, and the Bankers in the Room

AlphaSense raised $350M at $7.5B on June 3, 2026 (Vitruvian, Accenture Ventures, J.P. Morgan AM), disclosed ARR above $600M in Q1 2026 — reportedly $700M+ by July — growing ~40%, hired a capital-markets CFO in April, and is reported to be working with adviser…

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2 · Filing watch

Roster names whose status is at or past a filing — ordered by last mark. Statuses are as recorded on the roster; a confidential draft is reported, not visible on EDGAR.

CompanyStatusYearLast mark
Anthropicfiled2027$1T
Sheinfiled2026$50B
Rippleexpected2026$19.1B
Discordfiled2026$15B
Switchfiled_confidentially2026$11B
Krakenexpected2026$10.9B
Grafana Labsexpected2026$9.5B
Bolt (Mobility)imminent$8.8B
Blockchain.comfiled2026$7B
StravaConfidentially filed for IPO2026$2.2B
MotiveFiled S-1 December 2025, NYSE:MTVE2026$2.1B
Turofiled$1.3B

3 · The IPO tape

Recent major-exchange debuts: return since offer price and the engine’s live read.

Recent IPOs tracked
30
Avg return since offer
+14.0%
Engine reads Buy / Sell
11 / 5

Best since offer

  • APMD Apnimed Inc. +98.4% · engine Strong Buy
  • IMC IMC Rare Earths Ltd. +62.0% · engine Neutral
  • DPC DPC Holdings PLC +51.8% · engine Neutral
  • BRVE Braveheart Bio Inc. +50.2% · engine Buy
  • TCGX TCGX Acquisition Corp. +48.7% · engine Neutral

Worst since offer

  • DSC DSC Holdings Ltd. -57.6% · engine Buy
  • FISN Deep Fission Inc. -46.0% · engine Neutral
  • SNSC SunScout Holding Ltd -38.6% · engine Neutral
  • ITG ITG Inc. -18.9% · engine Sell
  • STDN Standard Nuclear Inc. -11.3% · engine Buy

4 · Engine vs Street

Record since 2026-08-19
1–1
Open calls
62
Engine win rate
50%

Every call is on the record before it resolves — see the full ledger.

Every number above is on the site, dated and graded. Track the pre-IPO roster, filings and secondary marks on the Private Companies dashboard.

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