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Latest SPAC News: Billtrust surges on go-private deal, and Robinhood trader ‘deceived’ by Nikola founder snubs SEC filings
FinTech IPO Index Flat as Billtrust Surges on Go-Private Deal
Tech stocks have had a reckoning in the past several days — a rally proved short lived, a blip.
But the FinTech IPO Index managed to see at least some gains through the past five sessions. Slight gains, to be sure — the group was up less than 1%.
Billtrust (NASDAQ:BTRS) saw a rally of about 49% through the week. Billtrust has been sold to the investment organization EQT in an all-cash transaction that values Billtrust’s equity at approximately $1.7 billion. The go-private deal comes after the company went public last year through a combination with South Mountain.
READ‘I Always Listen to the CEOs’: Nikola Investor Snubbed Filings, Jury Told
An investor who bought into the heady promises of Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ:NKLA) founder Trevor Milton in 2020 told the jury in Milton’s criminal fraud trial that he shunned the electric truck maker’s regulatory filings as long and unilluminating.
“I always listen to the CEOs of companies,” Marc Schonberger, a self-described “midlevel investor” from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, testified on Thursday about Milton, who was Nikola’s executive chairman at the time. “They have a fiduciary responsibility to tell you kind of what’s going on and be truthful and honest, so I relied on that.”
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A look at Plus’ software-first approach to autonomous trucking. After years of investment and excitement, the dawn of self-driving cars and trucks is now here. The question now is which business model among autonomous driving technology companies will win out? This week, we speak with David Liu, CEO of autonomous trucking company Plus. Plus announced...
At the SPAC of Dawn One thing that SPAC investors can typically count on while their money is invested in a SPAC’s trust is that it is going to grow one way or the other between now and their next redemption opportunity, but the devil can occasionally be in the details. In 2024, it became...
Thunderstone has filed for a $50 million SPAC to put a new first-time Asia-based team in action on a generalist hunt. The new SPAC is offering investors a right to a 1/8 share in each unit with 18 months to initially complete a business combination. It is the 8th fresh S-1 filed with underwriter D....
At the SPAC of Dawn In a trading session that may find itself built around the release of Fed minutes at 2 pm ET this afternoon, a pair of SPAC targets have added their own fresh information to the mix. Enterprise AI firm Fusemachines, which has a pending combination with CSLM (OTC:CSLMF), put out a...
Globa Terra Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:GTERU) announced the pricing of its $152 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “GTERU”, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. The new SPAC plans to mount a search for a target in the agriculture, agtech or biotech sectors with an emphasis on water...