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| Apr 17, 2025 | Bunq and Webull: Two Titans in the Digital Finance Arena | In the fast-paced world of digital finance, two players are making headlines: Bunq and Webull. Each represents a different facet of the fintech revolution. Bunq, a Dutch neobank, is expanding its reach into the U.S. market, while Webull, an... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Online trading platform Webull soars 375% in second day on market after SPAC merger | After almost quintupling in value on Monday, Webull has a market cap of $29.6 billion.
Founded in 2016, Webull gained traction in the U.S. four years ago as people used their stimulus checks during Covid to place trades.
Webull’s competitor... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public | Derek Xu (left) and Victor Huang began their startup journey two decades ago. Now they’re taking a company public. (Airship AI Photos)
No VC, no problem.
Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investm... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Natural Plant Extraction Player, Chongqing Joywin Natural Products Co., Ltd. plans to go public in the US via a merge with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)with estimated valuation of $300 million | /EIN News/ -- Chongqing, China, July 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chongqing Joywin Natural Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Joywin) is a company that focuses on extracting various natural ingredients from plants, usi... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | Natural Plant Extraction Player, Chongqing Joywin Natural Products Co., Ltd. plans to go public in the US via a merge with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)with estimated valuation of $300 million | |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Industrial headset company RealWear and Seattle’s Cascadia Capital terminate SPAC deal | RealWear’s Navigator 500. The Vancouver, Wash.-based company was set to go public in a SPAC deal. (RealWear Photo)
A SPAC deal to take Vancouver, Wash.-based industrial headset company RealWear public has fallen apart.
Cascadia Acquisition ... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Industrial headset maker RealWear to go public via SPAC with Seattle investment bank | (RealWear Image)
RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based company that sells industrial hands-free wearable “assisted reality” headsets, is going public via a SPAC deal with Seattle-based Cascadia Capital.
The deal, announced Monday, will value t... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Why the SPAC route makes sense for Getaround | The SPAC route to listing on public markets was incredibly popular in 2020 and 2021, but many companies that took this avenue didn’t exactly fare well after going public. So why did consumer car rental marketplace Getaround decide to list b... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Bookending the blitz, Chamath Palihapitiya begins unwinding two SPACs | Nearly three years ago, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) spearheaded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya took the space tourism company Virgin Galactic public. It was the first human spaceflight company to trade on the NYSE — or an... |
| May 31, 2022 | The death knell for SPACs? | It was a tough day for special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, which had already fallen out of favor after roughly 18 months in the limelight.
First, Senator Elizabeth Warren announced today that she’s planning a bill that targets ... |
| May 10, 2022 | Goldman Sachs is exiting work on most SPACs because of liability concerns as regulators tighten guidelines, report says | Goldman Sachs is pulling out of work with most special acquisition purpose companies it took public, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The changes come as the SEC embraces a plan for tightening oversight of SPACs, including exposing underwriter... |
| May 3, 2022 | SPAC Market Cools in 2022, Meanwhile the SEC Has Proposed New Rules that May Undermine SPACs Further | Last year was a big one for the SPAC [special purpose acquisition company] market. Reportedly, 613 SPAC offerings were floated on an exchange easily topping 420 traditional initial public offerings. Since the beginning of 2022, SPAC offerin... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | The SEC is taking aim at SPACs with proposed rules to make disclosures more like those in a traditional IPO | The SEC put forward SPAC rules aimed at giving investors protections similar to those around traditional IPOs.
They call for disclosure of conflicts of interest and an end to overly optimistic language about future results.
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| Mar 9, 2022 | SPACs: Can They Truly Benefit Entrepreneurs? | Somdutta Singh, Serial Entrepreneur | MD, Assiduus Global | Investor | Bestselling Author | Advisor - Govt of India. |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Long-term projections by some SPAC stocks are proving to be wishful thinking as Virgin Galactic misses 2021 revenue target by 98% | Ultra-rosy revenue projections of some companies that went public via SPAC are falling short.
The SPAC IPO process allows private companies to go public quicker and cheaper than the traditional IPO route.
Virgin Galactic missed its 2021 rev... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | 6 top M&A bankers from firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan reveal which sectors they think are ready to catch fire in 2022 | From left: Stephan Feldgoise, global co-head of M&A at Goldman Sachs; Mark Shafir, global co-head of M&A at Citi; and Anu Aiyengar, co-head of global M&A at JPMorgan. Goldman Sachs; Citibank; JPMorgan; Rachel Mendelson/Insider T... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | BuzzFeed falls 11% in trading debut after going public in merger with blank check firm | Digital media outlet BuzzFeed began trading on Monday following its SPAC merger.
BuzzFeed shares initially surged but then slumped as much as 31%.
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Shares of BuzzFeed soared — and then sunk — Monday after the digital media comp... |
| Dec 6, 2021 | BuzzFeed falls 11% in trading debut after going public in merger with blank check firm | BuzzFeed employees work at the company’s headquarters in New York on January 9, 2014. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Digital media outlet BuzzFeed began trading on Monday following its SPAC merger.
BuzzFeed shares initially surged but then slumpe... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Just call it deal mania: A look at this year’s booming market for M&A, IPOs, SPACs and VC | A screenshot of GeekWire’s deal tracker, showing recent acquisitions, SPACs and IPOs. Click image for full list.
Another day, another deal.
That’s sometimes how it feels around the GeekWire newsroom as we track the latest venture rounds, pr... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez's SPAC and iconic Italian sticker brand Panini are in talks for a $3 billion merger, report says | Slam, the SPAC led by Alex Rodriguez, is exploring a merger with Italy's Panini, Bloomberg said.
The transaction could value the combined company at $3 billion.
Panini is famous in the soccer world for its collections of stickers and t... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez’s SPAC and iconic Italian sticker brand Panini are in talks for a $3 billion merger, report says | Alex Rodriguez. Gotham/GC Images/Getty
Slam, the SPAC led by Alex Rodriguez, is exploring a merger with Italy’s Panini, Bloomberg said.
The transaction could value the combined company at $3 billion.
Panini is famous in the soccer world for... |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Robinhood's timeline to go public slowed by the SEC's close scrutiny of its cryptocurrency business, report says | Robinhood's IPO plans have hit a snag as the SEC reviews its prospectus, Bloomberg reported.
The regulator has been looking into Robinhood's growing cryptocurrency business, the report said.
The investing app provider's listi... |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Robinhood’s timeline to go public slowed by the SEC’s close scrutiny of its cryptocurrency business, report says | Robinhood’s IPO plans have hit a snag as the SEC reviews its prospectus, Bloomberg reported.
The regulator has been looking into Robinhood’s growing cryptocurrency business, the report said.
The investing app provider’s listing, initially p... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | BuzzFeed agrees deal to go public via a SPAC merger with 890 Fifth Avenue Partners | BuzzFeed agreed to go public via a merger with SPAC 890 Fifth Avenue Partners, a SPAC focused on media and entertainment.
It plans to acquire youth-focused digital publisher Complex Networks under the deal.
The parent company will be named ... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | BuzzFeed is nearing a deal to go public via a SPAC merger, report says | BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is closing in on a deal to go public via a merger with SPAC 890 Fifth Avenue Partners, WSJ reported.
The deal with the blank-check company could come this week, people familiar with the situation told the WSJ.
Capital rais... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | BuzzFeed agrees deal to go public via a SPAC merger with 890 Fifth Avenue Partners | BuzzFeed agreed to go public via a merger with SPAC 890 Fifth Avenue Partners, a SPAC focused on media and entertainment.
It plans to acquire youth-focused digital publisher Complex Networks under the deal.
The parent company will be named ... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | The competition for SPAC mergers is intensifying, with 260 blank-check firms facing deadlines in the next 18 months, report says | The surge in SPACs over the past year is putting pressure on sponsors to find and complete an acquisition as deadlines loom.
There are about 260 SPAC companies with $87 billion on hand that face merger deadlines in the first three months of... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | The competition for SPAC mergers is intensifying, with 260 blank-check firms facing deadlines in the next 18 months, report says | The surge in SPACs over the past year is putting pressure on sponsors to find and complete an acquisition as deadlines loom.
There are about 260 SPAC companies with $87 billion on hand that face merger deadlines in the first three months of... |
| May 12, 2021 | Startup employees should ask these 3 key questions if their company goes public through a SPAC | Startup employees need to know that the process of going public through a SPAC doesn't have a material effect on how they sell their shares on the public markets. Samantha Lee/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subs... |
| May 5, 2021 | Beyond the fanfare and SEC warnings, SPACs are here to stay | Matt Johnson Contributor
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Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of QC Ware, a quantum computing software company. Matt was a managing director in private equity at Apollo Management and prior to that was a managing director in ... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Elon Musk says the SEC is sometimes too close to Wall Street hedge funds - and it's strange the regulator isn't clamping down more on some SPACs | Tesla chief Elon Musk said the SEC is sometimes "too close" to Wall Street hedge funds.
He added that it's strange the regulator isn't cracking down more on the SPAC frenzy.
The SEC is said to be exploring issuance of ne... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Elon Musk says the SEC is sometimes too close to Wall Street hedge funds – and it’s strange the regulator isn’t clamping down more on some SPACs | Tesla CEO, Elon Musk. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images
Tesla chief Elon Musk said the SEC is sometimes “too close” to Wall Street hedge funds.
He added that it’s strange the regulator isn’t cracking down more on the SPAC frenzy.
The SEC is ... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | JPMorgan is calling the top for SPACs - and says declining day-trader interest is to blame | The SPAC boom has peaked, according to a Wednesday note from JPMorgan.
The decline in SPACs since February has been driven by a slowing of retail money flow into stocks, according to the bank.
"SPACs come and go in waves, as they exhib... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | JPMorgan is calling the top for SPACs – and says declining day-trader interest is to blame | The SPAC boom has peaked, according to a Wednesday note from JPMorgan.
The decline in SPACs since February has been driven by a slowing of retail money flow into stocks, according to the bank.
“SPACs come and go in waves, as they exhibit bo... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | It takes two to Tango: The biotech using CRISPR to discover new cancer gene targets rides a $353M SPAC deal to Nasdaq | Editor’s note: Interested in following biopharma’s fast-paced IPO market? You can bookmark our IPO Tracker here.
The latest biotech-SPAC deal has arrived, and it’s dancing its way to Nasdaq to the tune of several hundred ... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | The Impossible Burger’s creator could go public at a $10 billion valuation, report says | Popular plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods is exploring going public at a $10 billion valuation, sources told Reuters.
The California-based company is considering a public listing via an IPO or SPAC, Reuters reported.
Shares in rival B... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | The Impossible Burger's creator could go public at a $10 billion valuation, report says | Popular plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods is exploring going public at a $10 billion valuation, sources told Reuters.
The California-based company is considering a public listing via an IPO or SPAC, Reuters reported.
Shares in rival B... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | MULTIPLAN CORPORATION
MultiPlan : Recent SPAC Litigation Focusing On State Law Claims | Most of the recent shareholder litigation that has followed the current wave of Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) offerings and associated business combinations has been based on federal securities law claims. However, as a case fi... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | SEC United States Securities and Exchange : SPACs, IPOs and Liability Risk under the Securities Laws | SPACs, IPOs and Liability Risk under the Securities Laws
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Over the past six months, the U.S. securities markets have seen an unprecedented surge in the use and popula... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | US SEC official warns SPAC dealmakers of the risks and complexities tied to blank-check mergers | A US regulatory official has warned SPAC dealmakers about risks and complexities in the space.
The SEC's Paul Munter said target companies should be prepared to become public.
The recent performance of blank-check companies disappointe... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | US SEC official warns SPAC dealmakers of the risks and complexities tied to blank-check mergers | A US regulatory official has warned SPAC dealmakers about risks and complexities in the space.
The SEC’s Paul Munter said target companies should be prepared to become public.
The recent performance of blank-check companies disappointed in ... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is eyeing a second SPAC deal even though he will miss his own Q1 timeline to find a first target | Pershing Square chief Bill Ackman is already planning a second SPAC, but hasn't yet found a first target.
Airbnb, Stripe, and Bloomberg LP were previously said to be among his blank-check firm's first targets.
Ackman said he belie... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is eyeing a second SPAC deal even though he will miss his own Q1 timeline to find a first target | Bill Ackman. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images/The New York Times
Pershing Square chief Bill Ackman is already planning a second SPAC, but hasn’t yet found a first target.
Airbnb, Stripe, and Bloomberg LP were previously said to be among his blank-... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Brief: US vertical farming group AeroFarms joins unicorn club, strikes SPAC deal to go public | US vertical farming startup AeroFarms has agreed a merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal will see AeroFarms go public on New York’s NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol ‘ARFM’.... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | A Cathie Wood ETF bought about 800,000 shares in a Serena Williams-backed SPAC that just entered a $1.6 billion deal | Cathie Wood. ARK Invest
Cathie Wood’s ARK Robotics fund bought about 800,000 shares in a SPAC backed by Serena Williams.
The SPAC, called Jaws Spitfire, recently entered a $US1.6 ($2) billion merger with a 3D printing company.
Wood’s flagsh... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | The SEC is looking into Wall Street's SPAC craze and is seeking voluntary information from market participants, report says | The SEC is seeking voluntary information from Wall Street banks on SPAC deals, according to Reuters.
The regulator has asked the banks for information on deal fees, volumes, and internal protocol.
A Reuters source says this could be the sta... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | The SEC is looking into Wall Street’s SPAC craze and is seeking voluntary information from market participants, report says | The SEC is seeking voluntary information from Wall Street banks on SPAC deals, according to Reuters.
The regulator has asked the banks for information on deal fees, volumes, and internal protocol.
A Reuters source says this could be the sta... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Intertrust N : What's really driving US SPAC teams to Europe? | Make an enquiry
US SPAC teams will arguably have the upper hand when hunting for assets in Europe. Here's why.
The potential feels almost palpable for those capital markets and investors that can spot it.
Having fuelled the frenzy of U... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | eToro is going public via a US SPAC, hitting a $10bn valuation | eToro, the prominent European trading app, has announced it’s going public via a blank cheque company (or SPAC).
The startup has agreed a valuation of $10.4bn as part of a merger with the FinTech Acquisition Corp. V, a shell company that is... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Altimeter SPACs surge on reported $40 billion deal for Singapore ride-hailing company Grab | Altimeter Capital is in talks with ride-hailing company Grab to bring the company public in a $40 billion deal, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
If the deal goes through, it would mark the biggest SPAC deal on record, acc... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Brief: Alexandria REIT to form $313m agrifoodtech SPAC | Alexandria Agtech/Climate Innovation Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed by US real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities, has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to raise up... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Brief: Alexandria REIT to form $250m agrifoodtech SPAC | Alexandria Agtech/Climate Innovation Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed by US real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities, has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to raise up... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Altimeter SPACs surge on reported $40 billion deal for Singapore ride-hailing company Grab | Tan Hooi Ling is a co-founder of Grab and the current COO. S3studio/Getty Images
Altimeter Capital is in talks with ride-hailing company Grab to bring the company public in a $US40 ($51) billion deal, according to a report from The Wall Str... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | SPAC activity may be peaking right now and will slow for the rest of 2021, JPMorgan says | The acceleration of SPACs suggests a peak for the sector rather than the middle of a boom cycle, JPMorgan says.
Recent drawdowns in SPAC performance backs up this view, strategists say.
In 2021 alone, there have been 248 SPAC IPOs.
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| Mar 5, 2021 | SPAC boom fades as ETFs tracking blank-check firms crater amid risk-off sentiment | The boom in SPACs over the past year could be unwinding as ETFs that track the blank-check firms crater.
The Defiance Next Gen SPAC Derived ETF has dropped more than 20% over the past two weeks as risk-off sentiment persists.
More than 200 ... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | SPAC boom fades as ETFs tracking blank-check firms crater amid risk-off sentiment | The boom in SPACs over the past year could be unwinding as ETFs that track the blank-check firms crater.
The Defiance Next Gen SPAC Derived ETF has dropped more than 20% over the past two weeks as risk-off sentiment persists.
More than 200 ... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | How SPACs are changing the IPO game: Equity ownership of founders a big consideration | SPACs are hot right now, and one of the reasons is they can keep more equity in the hands of founders. (GeekWire Illustration / Canva Image, adrian825)
A few weeks ago, a longtime GeekWire reader sent a note expressing shock that Sana Biote... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Zulily co-founder latest to join SPAC mania | Zulily co-founder Mark Vadon speaks at the 2014 GeekWire Summit.
Mark Vadon, the Seattle e-commerce entrepreneur who co-founded Zulily and Blue Nile and served as chairman of Chewy, is joining the SPAC craze.
Vadon has emerged as the chairm... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | More than 50 hedge funds have handed Bill Ackman's SPAC $818 million to find a takeover target. Here are the top 20 hedge fund backers of Pershing Square Tontine Holdings | Mike Blake/ Reuters This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The recent SPAC boom is often attributed to retail investors, but hedge funds are also in on it.
Goldman Sachs recently... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | More healthcare startups go public through SPACs — but will they succeed? | “As we started having serious conversations about taking Hims & Hers public, we started to better understand the different modalities and learned more about the SPAC structure during this time,” Dudum wrote in an email. “The SPAC struct... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | A Flood of SPAC Money Will Take You Out Of Your Car And Into The Air | An artist's illustration of Archer Aviation's electric air taxi design. Courtesy of Archer Aviation |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Cereal maker Post Holdings to launch $400 million SPAC as more corporations warm to the blank-check listings | The SPAC boom is now spreading to corporations, with cereal-maker Post Holdings the latest company to launch its own blank-check company.
Post is seeking to raise $400 million for a SPAC that will acquire a company in the consumer products ... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Why SPACs Are Here To Stay | Partner of Eventus Advisory Group, LLC., helping companies meet their CFO, Finance and Accounting needs with fractional teams. |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Management is looking to raise over $1 billion to fund a SPAC, report says | Elliott Management is in talks with banks to raise $1 billion to create a blank-check company, WSJ said.
Founder Paul Singer has been notably absent from the SPAC boom until now.
Elliott could use the proceeds to buy a sizable company worth... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management is looking to raise over $1 billion to fund a SPAC, report says | Elliott Management is in talks with banks to raise $US1 billion to create a blank-check company, WSJ said.
Founder Paul Singer has been notably absent from the SPAC boom until now.
Elliott could use the proceeds to buy a sizable company wor... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez files to form $575 million SPAC as IPO craze continues | Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez is joining the SPAC craze and launching one of his own.
Slam Corp. is seeking to raise $US575 million in its public debut and will be led by Rodriguez as the CEO, according to a SEC filing.
Slam will... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez files to form $575 million SPAC as IPO craze continues | The former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez is joining the SPAC craze and launching one of his own.
Rodriguez is set to lead Slam Corp., which is seeking to raise $575 million in its public debut.
Slam will seek to acquire a firm in sector... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Former Trump Cabinet member Wilbur Ross files to form $345 million SPAC - and top Trump economist Larry Kudlow is joining as a director | Former Trump cabinet member Wilbur Ross is joining the SPAC craze with one of his own.
Ross filed to form a SPAC that is seeking to raise up to $345 million, according to an SEC filing.
Former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow is joining ... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | The Briefing: Wine App Vivino Raises $155M, Tealium Lands $96M, And More | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news, updated by the Crunchbase News staff throughout the day to keep you in the know.
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| Feb 3, 2021 | The Briefing: Wine App Vivino Raises $155M, Tealium Lands $96M, And More | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news, updated by the Crunchbase News staff throughout the day to keep you in the know.
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| Jan 27, 2021 | Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That. | Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private later this year. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaini... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | As SPACs Hunt Targets, They Could Disrupt VC World | 450 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
After a year unlike any other for SPACs in 2020, a vast majority will spend this year on the hunt for their perfect target company — something that could leave many scrambling in an ultra-competiti... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Science Inc. Makes $270 Million SPAC Debut | Michael Jones and Peter Pham, the founders of Science Inc., officially joined the SPAC frenzy on Tuesday, with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) of their own valued at $270 million.
In an announcement, Jones and Pham said their S... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | As SPACs Hunt Targets, They Could Disrupt VC World | 74 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
After a year unlike any other for SPACs in 2020, a vast majority will spend this year on the hunt for their perfect target company — something that could leave many scrambling in an ultra-competitiv... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | SCP & CO Healthcare Acquisition Company, a SPAC focused on acquiring a digital health business, announces pricing of upsized $200 million initial public offering | |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Intel chairman raises $750 million for SPAC backed by Medtronic to acquire health-tech company | A new SPAC launched by Intel's Chairman Omar Ishrak has filed to raise $750 million and is being backed by Medtronic, according to a SEC filing.
The blank check company, Compute Health Acquisition Corp., is seeking to acquire a firm in... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | SoftBank aims to raise up to $525 million for its own blank-check company | SoftBank aims to raise as much as $US525 million through the IPO of its blank-check company SVF Investment Corp., according to a regulatory filing published Monday.
The special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, will bridge SoftBank’s pr... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | SoftBank aims to raise up to $525 million for its own blank-check company | SoftBank aims to raise as much as $525 million through the IPO of its blank-check company SVF Investment Corp., according to a regulatory filing published Monday.
The special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, will bridge SoftBank's... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Self-Storage Door Maker Janus International To Go Public In $1.9 Billion SPAC Merger | Janus International CEO Ramey Jackson Janus International |
| Dec 19, 2020 | Here’s Why Some SPAC Deals Might Fail To Get Shareholder Approval | A wax figure of Tom Hanks as Forest Gump greets visitors. Madame Tussauds located next to Graumans ... [+] Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard opens to the public August 1, 2009. (Photo by Axel Koester/Corbis via Getty Images)Corbis via ... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | BarkBox To Go Public Via SPAC | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
BarkBox is the latest company to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
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| Dec 17, 2020 | BarkBox To Go Public Via SPAC | 20 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
BarkBox is the latest company to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
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The company agreed to merge with Northern Star Acquisitio... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham made an accidental $265 million profit on a SPAC deal after previously criticizing blank-check companies | Jeremy Grantham's early stake in battery producer QuantumScape has surged following the firm's merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, but Grantham still isn't sold on the blank-check IPO trend.
Grantham invested $... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | SPAC vs Traditional IPO: Investors See Benefits of Blank-check Companies | 247 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
While 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things, in the investment world it may be known as the year of the special purpose acquisition company, also known as a SPAC.
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| Dec 3, 2020 | SPAC vs Traditional IPO: Investors See Benefits of Blank-check Companies | 94 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
While 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things, in the investment world it may be known as the year of the special purpose acquisition company, also known as a SPAC.
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| Nov 21, 2020 | Boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg is reportedly seeking to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of more than $1 billion | Perella Weinberg execs Peter Weinberg, Tarek F. Abdel-Meguid, and Joseph Perella. First Republic
Perella Weinberg Partners, a boutique investment-banking advisory firm which was founded in 2006, is seeking to go public via an unidentified s... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg is reportedly seeking to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of more than $1 billion | Perella Weinberg Partners, a boutique investment-banking advisory firm which was founded in 2006, is seeking to go public via an unidentified special purchase acquisition company, or SPAC, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The firm was ... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | A Tesla rival is going public at a $5.4 billion valuation via a SPAC set up by Marvel Comics' ex-CEO | A Tesla-like British startup is set to go public at a $5.4 billion valuation via a special-acquistion company formed by former Marvel Comics CEO Peter Cuneo.
London-based Arrival will combine with US firm CIIG Merger. The combined company e... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | A Tesla rival is going public at a $5.4 billion valuation via a SPAC set up by Marvel Comics’ ex-CEO | A Tesla-like British startup is set to go public at a $US5.4 billion valuation via a special-acquistion company formed by former Marvel Comics CEO Peter Cuneo.
London-based Arrival will combine with US firm CIIG Merger. The combined company... |
| Nov 14, 2020 | DoorDash just publicly filed its IPO paperwork, revealing a nearly $150 million loss this year amid the COVID-19 delivery boom | DoorDash CEO Tony Xu. Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch
DoorDash on Friday released its filing to go public.
The delivery company said in the filing that in the first nine months of this year it generated a $US149 million loss on r... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | What’s so special about SPACs? | Over lunch, I heard Jim Cramer ranting on CNBC that “anyone who is anyone has a SPAC right now.”
That’s not too far from the truth: Legendary hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, NBA giant Shaquille O’Neal and former Congressional House Leader P... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Lordstown Motors spikes 19% after SPAC merger kicks off public trading | Lordstown Motors surged as much as 19% after shares began trading publicly on Monday.
The company, which trades under the ticker RIDE, completed a reverse merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, last week and is set to r... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | SPAC craze is driven by a frenzy of speculation and may not yield expected returns, legendary short-seller Jim Chanos says | The special-acquisition company frenzy is being driven by unrestrained speculation and may not yield expected returns, Bloomberg reported legendary short-seller Jim Chanos as saying.
History shows so-called "blank-check" companies... |
| Oct 19, 2020 | The Risk And Returns For The Increasingly Popular SPAC Trade | SPACs are grabbing headlines, should you partake? Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg© 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Oct 17, 2020 | VCs reload ahead of the election as unicorns power ahead | This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here.
It was an active week in the technology world broadly, with big news from Facebook and Twitt... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | The head of SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund is preparing to launch the group's own SPAC | Rajeev Misra, the CEO of SoftBank's Vision Fund, plans to launch Vision Fund 2's own special-acquisition company. He said he would outline details in the next two weeks.
The blank-check company will be operated by the fund's ... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Today’s SPAC Craze Risks Overheating Cleantech And Undermining Future Growth | Is the SPAC surge a bubble that will undermine cleantech growth?getty |
| Oct 10, 2020 | Public investors stay in love with tech, as Root and Affirm file to IPO | Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.
Why are there so many tech IPOs right now? Startups are finding that they can get higher valu... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Billionaire investor Bill Ackman offers new hints on possible targets for his record-breaking SPAC | Pershing Square Tontine is looking at employee-owned and family-controlled businesses as potential targets for a merger, Bill Ackman said in an interview with investor Whitney Tilson.
The billionaire investor previously indicated his specia... |
