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Latest SPAC News: Cilo Cybin flops after failing to lure South Africa investors, DWAC wins shareholder support for one year extension, and Watersight adds global companies to AquaRing pilot program
Cannabis SPAC Flops After Failing to Lure South Africa Investors
Cilo Cybin Holdings Ltd., a South African medical cannabis company, abandoned plans for an initial public offering in Johannesburg after failing to attract enough investment.
The business, the first in South Africa to win the right to grow, process and package cannabis products, had planned to list as a special purpose acquisition company. The aim was to raise as much as 2 billion rand ($116 million), founder Gabriel Theron said earlier this year, yet investors offered to buy just 20.5 million rand of shares.
READTrump-Tied SPAC DWAC wins shareholder support for one year extension
Investors in the blank-check acquisition company that plans to merge with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media firm on Tuesday voted to approve an extension of the time Digital World Acquisition Corp has to complete a deal.
After several delays, enough shareholders agreed to give DWAC until September 2023 to finalize its plans, handing a victory to DWAC (NASDAQ:DWAC) and its chief executive Patrick Orlando who had spent months trying to woo shareholders into voting.
READWatersight Adds Global Companies to the AquaRing Water Monitoring Pilot Program
Watersight, a watertech joint venture company of MEKOROT, Israel’s national water company, and Newsight Imaging Ltd., a technology company that specializes in advanced CMOS image sensors for spectral analysis and machine vision, today announced the start of the field test at MEKOROT’s water monitoring facility in northern Israel alongside the addition of U.S. global companies to its pilot water monitoring program utilizing the AquaRing. The AquaRing is a smart water monitoring system, a complete real-time sensing device for online water condition monitoring for water, utility, and food & beverage industries.
On August 30, 2022, Newsight Imaging announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to become publicly listed through a merger transaction with Vision Sensing Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: VSAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
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AI has quietly been creeping to the top of the buzziest sectors for SPAC deals, but it’s become host to an even larger arms race in the private funding market. Elon Musk is currently pushing a $6 billion capital raise for his OpenAI competitor xAI at a valuation of $18 billion, according to TechCrunch, while...
At the SPAC of Dawn After a tepid month for SPAC activity in April, prominent teams are already scheduling things to make for some fireworks in early May. AltC (NYSE:ALCC) has already been turning heads as being the rare SPAC to trade significantly above trust value before close, and it has now booked the completion...
At the SPAC of Dawn There are signs that the macro environment for SPACs is gradually improving, but the Screaming Eagle team yesterday announced a non-redemption agreement for its combination with Lionsgate Studios. Such agreements are generally a lever one pulls when a SPAC expects a potentially turbulent closing. All in all, the terms for...
Israeli tech firms have made up an outsized proportion of SPAC activity and despite the ongoing tensions in its region, that dealmaking is continuing unabated. In fact, the SPAC named for the particular mission of taking Israeli firms public through SPACs, Israel Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:ISRL) in fact just took one step closer in completing that...
At the SPAC of Dawn Although the market has largely recovered from a negative stretch last week, the roller coaster is tilted back downward for Trump Media (NASDAQ:DJT), which slid -8% yesterday to $32.57 – one of its lowest points since closing with Digital World last month. Other SPACs and de-SPACs are having a more...