Finance Watch: 2020 IPOs Surpass 2019 Total With 52 To Date
Executive Summary
ES: Public Company Edition: Fifty biopharma companies launched initial public offerings in the US last year and there have been 52 so far in 2020, including Metacrine, Dyne, Athira and COMPASS.
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