Venture Capital / Underwriting / IPOs Terms

  1. Quiet Filing

  2. Quiet Period

  3. Red Herring

  4. Relisted

  5. Repackaging

  6. Reverse Greenshoe Option

  7. Reverse Takeover - RTO

  8. RiskGrades - RG

  9. Road Show

  10. Seasoned Issue

  11. SEC Form 424B2

  12. SEC Form 424B5

  13. SEC Form F-N

  14. SEC Form S-3

  15. SEC Form U-1

  16. Secondary Liquidity

  17. Secondary Market

  18. Secondary Offering

  19. Shadow Market

  20. Share Class

  21. Slow Market

  22. Small Corporate Offering Registration - SCOR

  23. Sophisticated Investor

  24. Special Purpose Acquisition Company - SPAC

  25. Spinning

  26. Stabilizing Bid

  27. Standby Underwriting (Standby)

  28. Subsequent Offering

  29. Teaser

  30. Tech Bubble

  31. Turkey

  32. Underpricing

  33. Undersubscribed

  34. Undigested Securities

  35. Undivided Account

  36. Venture-Capital-Backed IPO

  37. Waiting Period

  38. Window Of Opportunity

  39. Winner's Curse

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