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Latest SPAC News: Amazon seller Packable to shut down in bankruptcy, and Otonomo to lay off dozens after losing 90% of value
Amazon Seller Packable to Shut Down in Bankruptcy After SPAC Deal Sinks
Packable Holdings LLC, a Carlyle Group-backed e-commerce platform valued at more than $1 billion less than two years ago, is shutting down in bankruptcy after it failed to go public through a merger with Highland Transcend Partners I Corp.
The Hauppauge, N.Y.-based company made the filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., on Sunday, days after it said it was laying off 138 employees. Packable, which entered bankruptcy with 372 workers, had nearly 1,300 employees at its peak.
Otonomo to lay off dozens of employees after losing over 90% of value
Israeli autotech company Otonomo (NASDAQ:OTMO) is expected to lay off dozens of employees, Calcalist has learned. The company, which built a marketplace for the trading of information coming from connected vehicles and went public a year ago on Nasdaq, employs close to 200 people – more than half of them at its R&D center in Herzliya.
Otonomo, which was issued during the wave of IPOs of companies in the autonomous vehicle sector alongside REE and Innoviz, is on its way to the title of “the worst Israeli IPO of 2021”, after its stock plunged from a value of $1.26 billion in the IPO to only $62 million last Friday. The company even announced on the same day that it received a non-compliance letter from Nasdaq regarding the possible delisting of its shares, after its stock traded below the price of a dollar for more than 30 days.
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Crown PropTech (OTC:CPTKW) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with rare earth mining firm Mkango Resources (TSX-V:MKA) at a pre-money equity value of $400 million. London-based Mkango is working to commercialize a chain of rare earth mining and refining facilities in Africa and Europe. The combined company is expected to trade on the...
At the SPAC of Dawn One of the biggest sources of uncertainty in the SPAC market in recent years has been regulatory changes, but new shifts could be in its favor. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins told CNBC yesterday that the commission would review the rules for SPACs after “rather controversial” changes to the rules passed...
McKinley Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:MKLYU) has filed for a $150 million SPAC to hunt for an innovative target company with an experienced financial team that has dabbled in SPACs before. The new SPAC is offering investors one right to a 1/10 share in each unit with no overfunding of the trust, but it could provide a...
At the SPAC of Dawn The rain of SPACs has continued with four expected to make their debuts during today’s trading sessions after pricing their IPOs overnight. The largest of these, EQV Ventures II (NASDAQ:EVACU), even managed an upsize, making it the largest SPAC IPO since Ares II (NYSE:AACT) pulled together $450 million in 2023....
EQV Ventures II (NASDAQ:EVACU) announced the pricing of its upsized $420 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “EVACU”, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. The new SPAC plans to merge with an energy target involved in upstream exploration or production. EQV II’s management team is led by...