Articles about spac

Seattle marketing company Banzai goes public, rings opening bell at Nasdaq following SPAC deal

Marketing tech company Banzai rang the opening bell at Nasdaq on Friday as the Seattle firm officially became a public… Read More

Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public

No VC, no problem. Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investment, will soon… Read More

SPACkerley: Why these sports business brothers in Seattle are bullish about their new SPAC deal

Is the SPAC back? Seattle business leaders Ted and Chris Ackerley are betting on it. The Ackerley brothers are part… Read More

Industrial headset company RealWear and Seattle’s Cascadia Capital terminate SPAC deal

A SPAC deal to take Vancouver, Wash.-based industrial headset company RealWear public has fallen apart. Cascadia Acquisition Corp., the special… Read More

Industrial headset maker RealWear to go public via SPAC with Seattle investment bank

RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based company that sells industrial hands-free wearable “assisted reality” headsets, is going public via a SPAC deal… Read More

Seattle startup Banzai to go public via SPAC and acquire marketing tech company Hyros

Banzai, a Seattle marketing software startup, announced Thursday that it will go public after it agreed to merge with a… Read More

Seattle’s Jane Park makes history in NYSE debut of women-run Athena Consumer Acquisition Corp.

The ceremonial ringing of the New York Stock Exchange opening bell Monday morning was symbolic in multiple ways for Jane… Read More

Quantum hardware startup Rigetti Computing to go public in $1.5B SPAC deal with ex-Zillow CEO

Rigetti is going public. The Bay Area-based makers of quantum computers and processors announced Wednesday that it will merge with… Read More

BlackSky satellite data venture glides into first day of public trading after SPAC deal

BlackSky, the geospatial data analysis company that got its start in Seattle, eased into its first day of public trading… Read More

Seattle investment bank Cascadia Capital has its eye on Pittsburgh for SPAC acquisition target

Pittsburgh’s tech scene is getting some more love from Seattle. Cascadia Capital, a Seattle-based investment banking firm founded more than… Read More

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Wall Street goes to pot, and to the dogs — and that’s a good thing for Seattle’s startup scene

An online marketplace that helps to facilitate trade between marijuana sellers and buyers will soon see its own stock traded… Read More

Leafly to go public via SPAC merger that values Seattle cannabis marketplace at $385M

Leafly is joining the SPAC party. The Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace plans to go public through a deal with New… Read More

From hackathon to IPO: Pet sitting marketplace Rover is Seattle’s newest public company

It started as a simple pitch at a Seattle hackathon for a marketplace to facilitate matches between pet owners and… Read More

Core Scientific, which started in Seattle but moved HQ to Austin, to go public at a $4.3B valuation

Core Scientific is going public. The blockchain infrastructure company announced that it will merge with a SPAC called Power &… Read More

‘Pandemic puppies’ help fuel Rover’s comeback as pet-sitting startup preps to go public via SPAC

Pet adoption rates have surged amid the pandemic, and pet spending accelerated last year. Those are a few of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

— Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders and brothers Chad and Harlan Robins are among the directors of a new life sciences SPAC.… Read More

Pet sitting marketplace Rover grabs a bone, valued at $1.3 billion in latest SPAC deal

Another day, another SPAC. Today, we’ve learned that Seattle online pet sitting marketplace Rover plans to join the public ranks… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed startup Nautilus Biotechnology set to go public via SPAC at $900M valuation

Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle-based biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel, is the latest company to go public using… Read More

Porch makes stock market debut, raising $322M to fuel its ambitions in home services technology

Serial entrepreneur Matt Ehrlichman was inspired to start Porch after encountering challenges during the construction of his family’s home. Eight… Read More

Used car marketplace Shift expands into Seattle region with end-to-end digital services

The online used car marketplace Shift is moving into the Seattle region, expanding the 6-year-old company’s coverage area the length… Read More

Q&A with former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff on his new SPAC that just raised $350M

Spencer Rascoff knows quite a bit about taking a company public. He helped launch Zillow in 2005 and led the… Read More

WestRiver Group chief Erik Anderson launches ‘global decarbonization’ SPAC with Riverstone

Erik Anderson is getting in on the SPAC rush. The WestRiver Group CEO and longtime Seattleite is teaming up with… Read More

Real estate tech company Porch adds five new directors to board ahead of public stock listing

Seattle-based Porch today named five directors that will join the company’s board when it goes public later this year. The… Read More