Online Lending Unicorn GreenSky Raises Over $800 Million

​GreenSky, a fintech company that facilitates loans for home improvement projects via smartphone applications, debuted Thursday on the public markets. The unicorn company priced on the high end of the range and sold well above its expectations of 34 million shares. Another notable IPO was that of EVO Payments, which is a payment processor. EVO raised $224 million.

• GreenSky, which provides consumer loans that originate at the point-of-sale system debuted on the NASDAQ under the ticker GSKY on Thursday. The company issued 38 million shares at a price of $23, raising approximately $874 million.
  

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• EVO Payments (NASDAQ: EVOP) began trading last Wednesday. Shares opened at $20.05, above the IPO price of $16. The company is a payment processor and collects fees from the number and value of transactions it processes. The company raised $224 million and intends to use that to buy an economic interest in parent company EVO Investco.