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Latest SPAC News: Makara to proceed with IPO, flyExclusive faces hurdles on pandemic demand drop, and OriginClear’s Water on Demand signs MOU
Makara Announces Updating Form S-1 Registration Statement with Current Financial Statements for Planned IPO
Makara Strategic Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: MKAR) announced yesterday that Makara is proceeding with its IPO with EF Hutton. Makara has merely withdrawn its registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to preserve its filing fees and intends to refile the S-1 with its latest, updated financial statements. This refiling of the S-1 with updated financial statements is a standard procedure.
Makara intends to proceed with its IPO imminently as it believes market conditions and opportunities in its target sector have also improved significantly.
READPrivate Jets, Hot off Pandemic Surge, Face New Hurdles and Fewer Customers
Jim Segrave’s biggest test yet may come this summer as he pushes forward with a public listing of flyExclusive Inc., which operates more than 90 private jets, through a special purpose acquisition company that values his business at $900 million.
Private flights in the US have declined from their pandemic highs, with takeoffs and landings dropping 4.5% in the first quarter from a year earlier. The drop accelerated to 9.3% in April compared with an 8.6% decrease in March.
Flexjet, the second-largest US operator of private jets behind NetJets Inc., shelved its SPAC listing last month, paying $30 million to call off the deal. Wheels Up Experience Inc.(NYSE:UP), which went public in 2021 via SPAC, has struggled to turn a profit even as sales have grown.
READOriginClear’s Subsidiary Water On Demand Signs MOU Regarding Acquisition of Established SaaS Developer
OriginClear Inc. (OTC Pink: OCLN), the Clean Water Innovation Hub™, announces that its subsidiary Water On Demand™ (WODI) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to acquire an established international SaaS (Software as a Service) Developer (Developer), founded nearly twenty years ago, which operates with a stable customer base of technology companies. The acquisition is anticipated to be accretive.
On January 5, 2023, Water On Demand, Inc. executed a Letter of Intent with Fortune Rise Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: FRLA) under which FRLA proposes to acquire all the outstanding securities of Water on Demand, Inc., based on certain material financial and business terms and conditions being met.
SMX’s Subsidiary trueGold Extends its Commercial Activity to a New Application Beyond Gold Bars and Coins to Watches and Jewelry
SMX (Security Matters) plc (NASDAQ:SMX) is pleased to announce that trueGold Consortium Pty Ltd., a 44.4% subsidiary of the Company, is extending its authentication, certification and verification tech solutions beyond gold bars and coins to gold watches and jewelry.
trueGold invisibly ‘marks’ the gold with a durable marker, that will allow the physical gold to have a complete and transparent memory of its journey from mine-to-marketplace, to recycle and reuse. Enabling an ethical gold supply chain assurance, to tangibly authenticate and provide irrefutable proof of the origination of gold for credible ESG reporting in real time.
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Terms Tracker for the Week Ending May 9, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. After the sprint that was last week, with nine IPOs and six new SPAC filings, this week took a breather. Only two SPACs priced, there...
Lake Superior (NASDAQ:LKSPU) has filed for a $100 million SPAC as its CEO attempts to go three-for-three with SPACs that led to completed deals. This new vehicle has one right to a 1/6 share in each unit and some common features of a SPAC underwritten by Cohen & Company in this current climate. Although the...
At the SPAC of Dawn De-SPACs were among the biggest movers in yesterday’s stock market rally, but most of this momentum came on the backs of direct earnings performance. Only three US-listed companies had bigger one-day gains than quantum computing firm D-Wave’s (NYSE:QBTS) +51.2% jump. This came as the company announced $15 million in revenue...
EGH Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:EGHAU) announced the pricing of its $150 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “EGHAU”, Friday, May 8, 2025. The new SPAC aims to combine with a target company in the energy transition or sustainability arena that help industries achieve efficiencies and decarbonization....
At the SPAC of Dawn Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced yesterday that the body intends to keep rates unchanged, earning him the moniker “FOOL” by US President Donald Trump. But, the announcement could bring some stability to market, which has seen macro factors pull it a variety of directions since the start of the year....