The humanoid robotics market is awash with money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised nearly $735 million at a valuation of nearly $3 billion. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics, closed a $935 million funding round valuing the
IQM, a full-stack quantum company from Finland, went public on the Nasdaq on Thursday via a SPAC merger at a valuation of around $1.9 billion. But stock prices did not rise. They spent most of the day below the IPO price – a lukewarm welcome. SPAC mergers don’t tend to be immediately popular with retail