Omada Health Inc. rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange on June 6, marking its first day as a public company, but it won’t be the most recent IPO for very long. Continuing the brisk pace seen so far this year, Caris Life Sciences Inc. is hot on its heels with a road show in progress leading up to its expected debut on the Nasdaq next week.
GC Genome Corp. priced a Kosdaq offering of 4 million shares at ₩10,500 per share May 27, entailing a gross ₩42 billion (US$30.5 million) raise in early June. The Yongin, South Korea-based genomics subsidiary of GC Biopharma Corp. fixed its shares price to the top of its ₩9,000 to ₩15,000 price band May 27 after conducting demand forecasting on domestic and international institutional investors from May 19 to May 23.
Hinge Health Inc.’s flexibility produced big rewards as the digital therapy company for physical rehabilitation finally began trading on the NYSE under the symbol HNGE on May 22 after delaying its IPO twice. Hinge co-founders Daniel Perez and Gabriel Mecklenburg rang the opening bell for the stock exchange to celebrate the offering’s $437 million haul.
Medtronic plc revealed plans to spin off its underperforming diabetes unit as a separate public company during its fourth quarter 2025 earnings call May 21. The company expects to complete the separation within 18 months.
April may not have brought rain to med-tech, but tariffs and financial uncertainty certainly dampened the enthusiasm for IPOs. With those clouds lifting, three companies – Hinge Health Inc., Capsovision Inc., and Omada Health Inc. – appear ready to flower in May, potentially a harbinger of a return to the brisk pace for med-tech IPOs seen in the opening weeks of 2025 when eight companies raised nearly $1 billion.
After scrapping plans for an IPO in 2022, Hinge Health Inc. is taking a more favorable view of going public given the increased support seen for health care and med-tech stocks in recent months. The San Francisco-based company, a digital provider of physical therapy services, filed a form S-1 with the U.S. SEC stating it plans to offer an unspecified number of shares of class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange this year.
With more than three weeks left in the first quarter, the value of med-tech IPOs for 2025 already exceeds the funds raised from all IPOs for med-tech companies in the last two years combined. Kestra Medical Technologies Ltd. provides a clear example of how fast the market is heating up, with a final IPO that raked in more than twice as much as initially expected, while Advanced Biomed Inc. shows the appeal of the U.S. exchanges for non-U.S. companies.
Basel Medical Group Ltd. is the first Singapore-based med-tech to price an IPO on the Nasdaq this year, aggregating gross proceeds of $8.82 million on its debut. The funds will be used to power future M&As and business expansion plans in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the company said.
Reflecting a positive reception in the market, Kestra Medical Technologies Ltd. increased the target haul for its planned IPO from $100 million to between $140 million and $160 million in an S-1 amendment filed Feb. 26. The company will offer 10 million shares at $14 to $16 per share, with the final price to be set the week of Mar. 3, just ahead of the offering date.