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A Hard Year For Software IPOs

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Crunchbase News - Funding Ma Title: A Hard Year For Software IPOs Date: 2026-09-16 11:00 Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/public/energy-ai-defense-saas-ipos-2026/ <p>If you’re looking to measure tech IPO market strength by the amount of money companies have raised, 2026 is certainly up there.</p> <p>U.S…
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  • The paucity of enterprise software IPOs this year is not entirely surprising given the impact of AI on the sector, as VCs pour capital into newer AI-first platforms and existing SaaS unicorns rush to incorporate AI

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  • Investment returns in tech IPOs are more concentrated than ever, with a winner-take-almost-all tilt in IPO proceeds more pronounced than in the past

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  • U.S. venture-backed technology companies have secured nearly $90 billion in domestic public offerings this year, the second-highest annual tally on record, with a few months still to go

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SpaceX · ipo proceeds share83 percent
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Enterprise Software Races to Govern and Consolidate Around Agentic AI
Enterprise software vendors are repositioning around autonomous AI agents. Salesforce is acquiring Braze, ServiceNow is launching agent governance tools (AI Passport, Super Intelligence Control Tower), SAP is pushing its 'Autonomous Enterprise', and Zeta is launching AthenaOS and its own inference model. Palantir is embedding itself in banking, aviation and sovereign AI infrastructure through partnerships with Customers Bank, Surf Air, Ondas and Armada. Governance, data sovereignty and enforced policy are emerging as preconditions for regulated sectors like finance. Investors such as Norwest see room to disrupt ERP and finance software, and they caution that AI should not be trusted with financial calculations. Consolidation and shareholder disputes (Salesforce/Braze, Tiny/Oso Cloud, ZenaTech/Boardwalktech) show the market reshaping.
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ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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