Columbus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:COLAU) announced the pricing of its $60 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “COLAU”, Thursday, January 23, 2025. The new SPAC intends to conduct a broad search for a target company without a focus on any particular industry or geography. Columbus’ sponsor...

Silver Pegasus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:SPEGU) has filed for a $150 million SPAC with Roth Capital Partners underwriting the offering. The new SPAC is laser-focused on finding a semiconductor or “systems solutions” target, which is an intriguing space given that the sector has been in the crosshairs of trade restrictions by nearly all countries involved. That...

At the SPAC of Dawn  Space de-SPACs have been among the big winners from the market’s initial parsing of the Trump administration 2.0’s policy priorities, with Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) gaining +30%, Redwire (NYSE:RDW) +51% and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) +23.9%. Redwire got the double boost of Trump’s bullish words on space and also the announcement that...

Iron Horse Acquisitions Corp. II has filed for a $250 million SPAC with D. Boral Capital underwriting under its new name. D. Boral emerged in November from a messy dispute at the top of investment bank EF Hutton that was concluded with Joseph Rallo taking the EF Hutton trademark and departing the firm while David...

At the SPAC of Dawn  This shortened trading week could be a rocky one as the market takes in the first wave of initiatives out of the new US administration and will have what are technically the first Trump 2.0 jobs numbers released on Thursday. It should be somewhat quieter for SPACs working through their...

Terms Tracker for the Week Ending January 17, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. We may be heading into a Polar Vortex, but SPACs managed to generate some heat this week with three more IPOs. For those keeping count,...

Giving internet users a place to chat or post pictures of their lunch has never been an especially profitable endeavor until social media platforms gain the scale to leverage user data en masse like Meta (NASDAQ:META). But, the addition of retail investor appetites to the equation has suddenly turned even smaller platforms into a tantalizing...

At the SPAC of Dawn  This week comes to a close with the debut of the year’s fourth SPAC IPO as Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII (NASDAQ:HVIIU) priced last night. This brings the month’s total IPO proceeds to $597.5 million, which is already a drastic year-on-year improvement from January 2023, which saw just $144 million...

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII (NASDAQ:HVIIU) announced the pricing of its $175 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “HVIIU”, Friday, January 17, 2025. The new SPAC intends to seek out a business combination with a company in the industrial technology and energy transition sectors. Hennessy...

Equites and crytpo trading platform eToro has reportedly filed for a traditional IPO two-and-half years after nixing its SPAC combination and its renewed thrust to the public markets could provide a useful demonstration of where things sit for SPACs in 2025. For one, eToro is reportedly making its IPO move at a valuation of $5...