Lundbeck, Pfizer and Alexandria Real Estate Equities are all in line for exits after Imara revealed it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering.

Monthly analysis: July-August 2019

Three corporate venturing windfalls have resulted in three different strategies to maximise shareholder value over the long-term.

The developing digital health sector has had to wait almost three years for the public markets to open up to it, but when they did, it was corporate venturing portfolio companies that were first through the flotation exit doors.

“WeWork’s Bonkers IPO,” said Fortune’s daily newsletter. “The Weirdness of WeWork’s IPO Filing”, sister publication CEO Daily called it, adding: “If a recession is coming, the WeWork IPO filing… will be a fitting capstone for the peak.”

Comcast has reportedly purchased over-the-top video platform Metrological, providing an exit to Liberty Global.

Pfizer spinoff Springworks, which also counts GlaxoSmithKline as an investor, secured $162m in an initial public offering that followed $228m of funding.

Verizon Ventures Israel has exited audio production marketplace SoundBetter thanks to Spotify’s decision to acquire the company for an undisclosed sum.

TV content producer Platform One Media has been bought by Boat Rocker Media five years after it was co-founded by Liberty Global and Evolution Media.

We Company's largest investor is set to buy up about 25% of the shares in the IPO, which is likely to reduce its valuation from $47bn to as little as $15bn.