ARENA FORTIFY ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 — Description of Organization and Business Operations
Arena Fortify Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on January 26, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from January 26, 2021 (inception) through June 30, 2022 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), described below, and since the Initial Public Offering, the search for a prospective initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company generates
non-operating
income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering.
The Company’s sponsor is Arena Fortify Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”).
On January 26, 2021, 5,750,000 shares of the Company’s Class B common stock (the “Founder Shares”) were issued to the Sponsor and Founders (as defined below) in exchange for the payment of $25,000 of deferred offering costs on behalf of the Company, or approximately $0.004 per share. In October 2021, the Company effected a share contribution back to capital resulting in the Sponsor and Founders holding 4,312,500 shares of Class B common stock. Up to 562,500 Founder Shares were subject to forfeiture to the extent that the over-allotment option was not exercised by the underwriters. On November 15, 2021, the underwriters fully exercised the over-allotment option; thus, no Founder Shares were forfeited and are no longer subject to such forfeiture provision.
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on November 9, 2021 (the “Effective Date”). On November 15, 2021, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 17,250,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”) at $10.00 per Unit (which included the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option), which is discussed in Note 3 (the “Public Offering”) and the sale of an aggregate of 5,450,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share, at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to the Arena Fortify Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), Cowen Investments II LLC (“Cowen”) and Intrepid Financial Partners, L.L.C. (“Intrepid” and collectively, the “Initial Stockholders” or “Founders”) that closed simultaneously with the Initial Public Offering.
The Company also issued promissory notes to each of the Initial Stockholders (collectively, the “Initial Stockholder Loan Notes”), generating aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $3,450,000. The Initial Stockholder Loan Notes shall be repaid in cash or converted into warrants (the “Initial Stockholder Loan Warrants” and, collectively with the Private Placement Warrants, the “Warrants”)) at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant, at each such lender’s sole direction. The Initial Stockholder Loan Warrants are identical to the Private Placement Warrants.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering on November 15, 2021, $175,950,000 ($10.20 per Unit) from the net proceeds sold in the Initial Public Offering, including proceeds of the sale of the Private Placement Warrants and issuance of Initial Stockholder Loan Notes, was deposited in a trust account (“Trust Account”), maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as the trustee and invested only in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule
2a-7
promulgated under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations.
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