Chinese crypto mining play Nano Labs cuts deal size by 45% ahead of $20 million US IPO

Nano Labs, a fabless chip designer in China centered on cryptocurrency mining, lowered the proposed deal size for its upcoming IPO on Tuesday.

The Hangzhou, China-based firm now plans to boost $20 million by providing 1.8 million ADSs at a worth vary of $11.35 to $11.51. The firm had beforehand filed to supply 3.5 million ADSs at a spread of $9.50 to $11.50. At the midpoint of the revised vary, Nano Labs will elevate -45% much less in proceeds than beforehand anticipated.

Nano Labs develops excessive throughput computing (HTC) chips, excessive efficiency computing (HPC) chips, in addition to distributed computing and storage options, sensible community interface playing cards (NIC) imaginative and prescient computing chips, and distributed rendering. Its merchandise are presently designed primarily for the mining of numerous cryptocurrencies, and embrace near-memory HTC chips with purposes within the ASIC-based Grin mining market and HPC chips used for embedding in Bitcoin mining machines.

Nano Labs was based in 2019 and booked $6 million in income for the 12 months ended December 31, 2021. It plans to checklist on the Nasdaq beneath the image NA. AMTD Global Markets, Maxim Group LLC, and Tiger Brokers are the joint bookrunners on the deal.