 HashiCorp Inc. HCP, 8.44 started its public life with a 1.5 gain Thursday, on an otherwise downbeat day for Wall Street, after the San Francisco-based cloud adoption software companys initial public offering priced well above its expected range. The IPO priced late Wednesday at 80 a share, above previous projections of a pricing between 68 and 72 a share, as the company raised 1.22 billion. 