Open-source database provider MariaDB closed down ~40% in its NYSE debut following its SPAC merger; MariaDB had a $368M market cap at $11.55/share opening price (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Alex Harring / CNBC:
LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger  —  – Grindr surged in trading Friday in its first day under a new ticker following its merger with blank-check company Tiga.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
France-based Gravitee.io, a popular open-source API management service, raised $30M led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, bringing its total funding to $41M  —  Gravitee Topco Ltd., the creator of a popular application programming interface management service, is feeling richer today after closing on a $30 million funding round.

Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Malaysian payments technology company Super Apps Holdings plans to go public in the US via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.1B valuation, listed on the Nasdaq under TETE  —  Super Apps Holdings will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal …

Bloomberg:
Since its NYSE debut in November 2013, Twitter stock has grown 8.4% annually on average, below the S&P 500’s 11% and Nasdaq 100’s 15%, due to slow user growth  —  Elon Musk’s buyout marks the end of nine years of public trading in Twitter Inc., which debuted with a bang but failed to match …

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:
Autonomous trucking software company Embark lost ~98% of its market value, or ~$5B, since going public a year ago via a SPAC merger, amid a sector-wide downturn  —  Out of all the beaten-down public companies in the autonomous driving space, Embark Technology stands out as a conspicuously terrible stock market performer.

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Thiel-backed conservative video platform Rumble is up 37% after going public via SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M  —  Rumble Inc., the conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, became a publicly traded company Monday through a deal with a blank-check firm …