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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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Real estate marketplace Opendoor (NASDAQ:OPEN) is poised to be the latest de-SPAC to take a double-digit jump on earnings as it heads towards the weekend up +10%, having spiked as high as +27% earlier in the day. The movement comes as the former Social Capital II target reported progress towards profitability despite a high rates...
At the SPAC of Dawn Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) notched a surprise profit of over $1.5 billion in the first quarter of 2024, well exceeding estimates, demonstrating the powerful effect of publicly traded ETFs have had on crypto marketplaces since the start of the year. The result has pushed the company to bump up its own guidance...
Online casino and sports company Rush Street (NYSE:RSI) is up +18.4% in trading today on the back of a solid first quarter earnings release, bringing the company’s stock to its highest price since the second half of 2022 (currently $7.60). This makes it the latest in a line of 2020 and 2021 de-SPACs that have...
Mountain Crest V (NASDAQ:MCAG) broke a long dealmaking silence by SPACs this morning, albeit with a non-binding agreement to combine with Seoul-based diagnostic biotech firm CUBEBIO. The term sheet would give the company a $620 million pre-transaction equity value and help accelerate the rollout of CUBEBIO’s CEED-NOVUS cancer screening kit products. The company signed an...
Churchill Capital Corp IX (NASDAQ:CCIXU) announced the pricing of its $250 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “CCIXU”, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The new SPAC will conduct a broad search and has not limited itself to any particular sector or focus, but it plans to...