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Latest SPAC News: Quanergy files for bankruptcy, Royalty Management becomes a member in Texas Tech University’s Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production, and Bakkt study finds future crypto purchase consideration holds steady
Ex-SPAC Quanergy Files for Bankruptcy Less Than a Year After Going Public
Quanergy Systems Inc. (NYSE:QNGY), a maker of high-tech sensors and related software, filed for bankruptcy about 10 months after going public through a merger with a blank-check company.
The firm will try to sell itself out of bankruptcy and expects to keep operating in the meantime, according to a statement. Quanergy listed assets and liabilities of as much as $50 million each in its Chapter 11 petition.
In February, the company said it closed its deal to go public through a business combination with CITIC Capital that netted it close to $50 million of cash.
READAmerican Acquisition Opportunity Inc.’s Merger Target, Royalty Management, Becomes Member in Texas Tech University’s Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production
American Acquisition Opportunity Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMAO) merger target company, Royalty Management Corporation (RMC), announced today that it has become a gold member of Texas Tech University’s recently created Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production, or ‘CASFER’ organization. Becoming a gold members of CASFER enables RMC to have access to the technologies and intellectual property developed out of CASFER, in particular the innovative and novel technologies to produce, capture, and recycle nitrogen-based fertilizers resulting from farming activities.
READBakkt Study Finds Future Crypto Purchase Consideration Holds Steady Despite Recent Crypto Failures
Bakkt Holdings Inc (NYSE: BKKT), a digital asset platform that unlocks crypto and drives loyalty to create delightful, connected experiences for a broad range of clients, today released findings from its “Bi-Annual U.S. Consumer Crypto Sentiment Study” of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers who own crypto or are interested in crypto, examining their interest in crypto following the summer volatility, their preferred security features and outlook for crypto’s role in the global financial system.
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At the SPAC of Dawn If things seem like they are accelerating fast to start 2025, that is even more so for the space sector, which had a big, and occasionally explosive, week this week. 2023 de-SPAC Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) landed on the moon a second time yesterday afternoon, but it may have seen its...
At the SPAC of Dawn SPACs have largely steered clear of the fintech sector, which used to be among its favorite hunting grounds of late, both due to unfavorable macro pressures and the lack of clear action on the traditional IPO side to comp to. That may soon change as buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna has confidentially...
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Cal Redwood Acquisition Corp. has filed for a $200 million SPAC IPO, aiming to focus on opportunities in the TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecommunications) sector. The blank-check company intends to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “CRAU”, offering 20,000,000 units at $10.00 each, with the trust funded at 100%. The unit structure includes a...
Relativity (NASDAQ:RACY) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with wellness firm Instinct Brothers at a pro forma enterprise value of $242 million. Tokyo-based Instinct Brothers provides anti-aging treatments both through an in-person clinic and through consumer cosmetic products. The combined company is expected to trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol “BIOT” once...