Raspberry Pi share sale

Raspberry Pi’s biggest shareholder has sold part of its stake less than two years after the company’s London listing, in a £60 million share sale priced at 550 pence a share. (investegate.co.uk) The seller was the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which placed 10,909,090 existing shares and said Raspberry Pi Holdings itself would receive none of the proceeds. After the deal, the foundation said it would still own 79,417,031 shares, or about 41% of the company. (investegate.co.uk) Arm Technology Investments 2 Limited, a subsidiary within the Arm Holdings group, bought £50 million of shares in the placing. BusinessCloud reported that Arm’s purchase came as part of the same transaction and left the chip designer increasing its exposure to Raspberry Pi. (businesscloud.co.uk) A secondary placing is a sale by existing shareholders, not a fundraising by the company. Raspberry Pi said that distinction plainly in its announcement: the shares came from the foundation, and the listed company did not issue new stock. (investegate.co.uk) That matters because Raspberry Pi only came to market on June 11, 2024, when it priced its initial public offering at 280 pence a share. The new sale price of 550 pence is 96.4% above that flotation price. (londonstockexchange.com) Raspberry Pi is best known for low-cost single-board computers, but its investor materials now pitch a broader business selling computing products into industrial and embedded markets through more than 100 approved resellers and licensees worldwide. (investors.raspberrypi.com) Arm’s involvement is not new. Arm said in 2023 that it had made a strategic investment in Raspberry Pi, describing a partnership that dated back to 2008 and had produced multiple Arm-based Raspberry Pi products. (newsroom.arm.com) The sale also comes weeks after Raspberry Pi published its 2025 final results and days after it released its 2025 annual report and notice of annual general meeting. The London Stock Exchange company page lists the secondary placing announcement on April 22, 2026, alongside those recent filings. (londonstockexchange.com) For now, the transaction changes who holds Raspberry Pi shares more than it changes Raspberry Pi’s balance sheet. The company stays public, the foundation remains its largest shareholder, and Arm has signaled it wants a bigger seat at the table. (investegate.co.uk)