2021 IPO Calendar: These are the IPOs you need to watch

Last year was reportedly the biggest year for IPOs since the dot-com boom, and 2021 may surpass it. Below you’ll find the available details for some of the year’s potentially hottest initial public offerings.

Note that we’re not recommending these IPOs. Use this guide for your own research and due diligence before making any investment decisions.

Most anticipated IPOs for 2021

Below, you’ll find some of the most anticipated initial public offerings for the coming year. We expect these IPOs to generate a lot of buzz, and several of them have done so already.

Nextdoor

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Nextdoor, a neighborhood-oriented social network, is reportedly targeting an IPO in 2021 and seeking a company valuation between $4 to $5 billion. But no official plans have been released and no date has been set.

• Expected to go public: 2021
• Valuation: $4-$5 billion

Instacart

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The ubiquitous Instacart connects clients with surrogates who shop for and deliver groceries to your door — all through an app. With so many Americans home due to COVID, its sales hit an estimated $35 billion in 2020, putting the company in third place behind Amazon and Walmart.

• Expected to go public: 2021
• Valuation: $30-$40 billion

Stripe

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Payment processing and e-commerce giant Stripe has yet to announce plans for an IPO, but speculation abounds and the name appears on several publications’ lists of offerings to watch for in 2021. If it goes it would be one of the biggest of the year.

• Expected to go public: late 2021
• Valuation: $95 billion

2021 IPO calendar

Here are some of the other high-profile IPOs our editors are watching.

Scheduled IPOs

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Name	Symbol	Exchange	Status	Price	Shares	IPO Date
Getnet Adquirencia e Servicos para Meios de Pagamento S.A. American Depositary Shares When-Issued	GETVV.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
Minority Equality Opportunities Acquisition Inc. Warrants	MEOAW.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
Minority Equality Opportunities Acquisition Inc. Class A Common Stock	MEOA.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
Cascadia Acquisition Corp. Class A Common Stock	CCAI.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
Paragon 28, Inc.	FNA.US	NYSE	Expected	From USD 15 to USD 17	0	2021-10-18
2seventy bio, Inc. Common Stock When-Issued	TSVTV.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
bluebird bio, Inc. Common Stock Ex-Distribution When Issued	BLUEV.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
Cascadia Acquisition Corp. Warrant	CCAIW.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-18
SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp. Units	SMAPU.US	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 10 to USD 10	0	2021-10-19
Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp.	-	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 10 to USD 10	0	2021-10-19
Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp. Units	BMAQU.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-19
Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corp. Unit	ENTFU.US	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 10 to USD 10	0	2021-10-19
Global Technology Acquisition Corp. I Unit	GTACU.US	Nasdaq	Expected	-	0	2021-10-19
Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc.	SDIG.US	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 16 to USD 18	0	2021-10-20
P10, Inc.	PX.US	NYSE	Expected	From USD 14 to USD 16	0	2021-10-21
Vita Coco Company, Inc.	COCO.US	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 18 to USD 21	0	2021-10-21
Portillo's Inc.	PTLO.US	Nasdaq	Expected	From USD 17 to USD 20	0	2021-10-21
Enfusion, Inc.	ENFN.US	NYSE	Expected	From USD 15 to USD 17	0	2021-10-21
Winc, Inc.	WBEV.US	NYSE	Expected	From USD 14 to USD 16	0	2021-10-21

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Here are some of the other high-profile IPOs our editors are watching. (This is not a complete list of upcoming IPOs.)

Expected IPOs

What’s an IPO?

Companies stage an initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital and to reward early investors, officers and workers who’ve been given ownership shares. In a public offering, shares are sold via an underwriter, with most going to large institutional investors and select high-net worth investors.

In rare cases, the average retail investor may be invited to participate, but most will have to wait until shares are trading on an exchange.

On this page you’ll see two other kinds of initial offerings:

• Direct listings: In a direct listing, a private company sells existing shares held by employees or private shareholders on an exchange with no intermediary. The price per share depends upon how willing existing shareholders are to part with their shares.
• SPACs: In a SPAC merger, a company seeking to go public merges with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a blank check company with no operations other than to bring a private company public. This saves the private company time and effort, and it may increase its eventual share price. Public investors can buy into SPACs before the merger, but they rarely know what company a SPAC will take public.

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