
Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities, CICC, Tiger Brokers, and Snowball Securities were set to be the joint bookrunners on the deal. It had planned to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol LDOC. At Ximalaya, the average user spends 150 minutes a day on the app. The total number of podcast listeners surged to 425 million last year, compared with 348 million in 2017, according to data from iiMedia Research. In China, podcasting has also gained in popularity. The Beijing, China-based company was founded in 2014 and booked $154 million in sales for the 12 months ended March 31, 2021. Yu Jianjun, the co-founder and chief executive of podcast start-up Ximalaya FM. The company's product suite includes a digital continuous care platform for patients with critical diseases, an AI-enabled curation system for longitudinal medical data, and a precision life sciences platform for clinical research. So far this year, 31 Chinese issuers have raised $12.3 billion in US IPOs, more than all of last year, representing roughly 15% of the US IPO market by deal count and proceeds.īacked by Alibaba Health, LinkDoc Technology provides a platform that structures cancer patient data to enable precision medicine and personalized care. Days after DiDi Global's ( DIDI) $4.4 billion US IPO, the regulator announced that it was pulling DiDi's app from the app store until it came under compliance with certain data security requirements, causing the stock to crash. The news comes amid China's latest crackdown of its domestic internet companies, which has most recently focused on US listings. On Wednesday, LinkDoc filed an amendment where it added risks related to China's new capital markets regulation and oversight, which had been issued by the country's regulator the day before. It had filed to raise $200 million by offering 10.8 million shares at a price range of $17.50 to $19.50. Insiders and anchor investors had indicated an interest in buying 58% of the deal. The company had been expected to price its IPO on Thursday night. LinkDoc Technology, a Chinese healthcare data company specializing in oncology patients, postponed its IPO on Thursday.
