CEO Marc Nemati and Colombier II’s Omeed Malik break down the deal and the strategy. Despite its moniker as the “the everything store” you can’t buy everything on Amazon, and firearms are one of those things. But, GrabAGun has spent years building a platform for regulated online firearms purchases, and soon, consumers will be able...
On this week’s SPACInsider REPLAY, we revisit a 2022 conversation with Harry Sloan of the Eagle SPACs. At the time, Harry had already completed seven SPACs and was closing in on his eighth. As markets cooled and the SPAC boom waned, Harry offered a prescient take on where the market was headed—and what a “post-boom”...
Tariffs, Trade Routes, and Tech: Freightos’ View from the Cargo Frontlines 2025 is shaping up to be a wild year for global trade, and few companies have a vantage point on the impacts of every-changing tariff policy quite like digital cargo-booking platform Freightos (NASDAQ:CRGO). This week, we catch up with Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber. He shares...
This week, we sit down with Rick Hendrix and Adam Fishman from the Live Oak SPAC team. Rick Hendrix is the Founder of Live Oak Merchant Partners, and Chairman and CEO of Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ:LOKV). In addition, he is an operating executive at Crestview Partners, a New York-based middle market focused private equity firm....
This week, we return to another episode from 2021, when we spoke with Will Marshall, Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs (NYSE:PL). Planet provides data services drawn from its fleet of about 200 satellites that generate a complete image of the earth’s surface every day. It just celebrated its first quarter of EBITDA profitability, but at...
In this SPACInsider Podcast Replay, we go back to 2021, when we spoke with Chris Urmson, CEO and Chairman of autonomous truck technology firm Aurora (NASDAQ:AUR). At the time, Aurora was working to close its $10 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Y. Chris laid out how the company planned to approach the commercialization of...
This week, in a special edition of the SPACInsider Podcast, we focus on the private markets with PM Insights founder and CEO Nick Fusco. Nick weighs in with his thoughts on the major trends shaping private market valuations today and how the market has evolved since the pandemic years. Plus, how difficult is it to...
Quantum computing has been one of the hottest investment topics in the past two months and three of the leading listed companies in the space are de-SPACs. But, how close is quantum computing to generating real value and what capabilities are still years away? This week, we speak with Alan Baratz, CEO of D–Wave (NYSE:QBTS), which...
In this special follow-up edition of the SPACInsider Podcast, we check back in with Dimitre Genov, Ed Kovary, and Nick Skibo, who last joined us at the end of Q3 2024, to assess the state of the SPAC market in 2025 and the key dynamics shaping the landscape. Our panel brings together perspectives from across...
AI assistance is finding its way into an increasing number of corners of the market, and the industrial supply chain is an area that could use help the most. This week, we speak with Ed Nabrotzky, CEO of industrial technology firm Dot Ai. Dot Ai announced a $130 million combination with ShoulderUp Technology Acquisition Corp. (OTC:SUAC) in March...