Podcast: Wejo’s CEO Richard Barlow and TKB Critical Technologies 1 Co-CEO & CFO Angela Blatteis
by Kristi Marvin on 2023-02-10 at 9:42am

Why stop at one SPAC deal when you can do two SPAC deals? This week we speak with Wejo (NASDAQ:WEJO) CEO Richard Barlow.

Wejo announced a business combination with TKB Critical Technologies 1 (NASDAQ:USCT) in January, about 15 months after it closed an earlier combination with Virtuoso Acquisition Corp.

Richard walks us through how Wejo weathered challenging market conditions 2022 and provides an update on its new business plan.

TKB 1 Co-CEO and CFO Angela Blatteis also joins and gives the behind-the-scenes look at how her team reached into the 2010 playbook to make this deal’s structure possible.

Could this deal start a trend among the hundreds of SPACs still searching? And what conditions need to be present for this to work?

Give it a listen.


 

 

Recent Posts
by Nicholas Alan Clayton on 2024-11-18 at 3:08pm

Columbus Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:COLAU) has filed for a $57.5 million IPO to give its team a second vehicle in circulation to hunt for deals. The same team IPO’d Eureka (NASDAQ:EURK) in July at a slightly smaller $50 million scale and this new SPAC would improve upon some of that foray’s terms. Both SPACs managed to...

by Nicholas Alan Clayton on 2024-11-18 at 8:20am

At the SPAC of Dawn One week before Thanksgiving, SPACs are not filling up their plate with just five votes scheduled, all of which are extensions. Five of these are set to take place today, and investors are also set to get an update on one of the most successful de-SPACs of recent years. Industrial...

by Kristi Marvin on 2024-11-16 at 10:00am

Terms Tracker for the Week Ending November 15, 2024 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. The drought in De-SPAC deals continues without a single announced combination since October 23rd. That’s more than three weeks now with SPACs experiencing a dry...

by Nicholas Alan Clayton on 2024-11-15 at 11:28am

Few corners of the market have seen a bigger boost from the result of the US elections than the crypto industry, and SPACs are always sure to be drawn to where the action is. But, in crypto’s case, this is a play that SPACs have been involved in before, so the question is more of...

by Nicholas Alan Clayton on 2024-11-15 at 8:26am

At the SPAC of Dawn As more information continues to trickle out about what investors should expect from the Trump 2.0 tax changes, it has become increasingly clear that the $7,500 EV tax credit is on the outs. Such a change could shift the strategies for many EV de-SPACs and prospective SPAC targets in the...

logo

Copyright © 2023 SPACInsider, Inc. All Rights Reserved