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Horizon Discovery plc IPO year

What is the IPO year of Horizon Discovery plc?

The IPO year of Horizon Discovery Group plc is 2014

What is the definition of IPO year?

Initial public offering is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.

Through IPO a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors. After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.

Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.

The IPO process is colloquially known as going public. Details of the proposed offering are disclosed to potential purchasers in the form of a lengthy document known as a prospectus. Most companies undertake an IPO with the assistance of an investment banking firm acting in the capacity of an underwriter. Underwriters provide several services, including help with correctly assessing the value of shares.

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What does Horizon Discovery plc do?

Horizon Discovery Group plc, a cell engineering company, engages in the design, manufacture, and application of gene editing and gene modulation tools in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through Screening, Research Reagents, Diagnostics, and BioProduction segments. It provides custom-made and off-the-shelf (OTS) RNAi gene modulation reagents, CRISPR reagents, synthetic SGRNAs, OTS cell models, and custom cell engineering services. The company also offers pooled CRISPR screens; arrayed RNAi and CRISPR screens, drug screens, and immunology assays; and RNAi and CRISPR screening libraries; and human T-Cell CRISPR screening service to meet the requirements of immunology based research in drug discovery. In addition, it provides OTS gene-edited CHO cells and custom CHO cell lines, and custom CHO gene engineering services; and OTS cell-based reference standards, made to order reference standards, and custom cell-based reference standards to evaluate molecular assays on a research use basis. The company serves customers in academic research labs, biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, and contract research and manufacturing organizations. It sells its products through direct field sales channel and e-commerce platform. The company has a partnership with the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop and commercialize base editing, a gene editing technology; strategic collaboration with Mammoth Biosciences to develop CRISPR tools to provide engineered cell lines for the biopharmaceutical industry; and collaboration with St George's University Hospital, London, and the European Molecular Genetics Quality Network to develop reference material for non-invasive prenatal testing. Horizon Discovery Group plc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

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