PART I
Item 1. Business
General
We are a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on March 15, 2021 for the purpose of effecting the Initial Business Combination. Our Sponsor is a Delaware limited liability company. We have reviewed, and continue to review, a number of opportunities to enter into an Initial Business Combination with an operating business, but we are not able to determine at this time whether we will complete an Initial Business Combination with any of the target businesses that we have reviewed or with any other target business. We also have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenue to date. Based on our business activities, the Company is a “shell company” as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) because we have no operations and nominal assets consisting almost entirely of cash.
On July 6, 2021, we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 25,000,000 units (the “Units”). Each Unit consists of one Class A Ordinary Share, par value $0.0001 per share, and one-third of one redeemable warrant of the Company. Each whole warrant is exercisable to purchase one Class A Ordinary Share of the Company at a price of $11.50 per share. Only whole warrants are exercisable. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $250,000,000 (before underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses).
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, pursuant to (i) the Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement between us and our Sponsor, dated June 30, 2021, and (ii) the Amended and Restated Subscription Agreements by and among us, the Sponsor and certain funds and accounts managed by subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc (the “Anchor Investor”), dated June 17, 2021, we completed the private sale of 4,666,667 warrants to the Sponsor and 2,000,000 warrants to the Anchor Investor, respectively (collectively, the “Initial Private Placement”), at a purchase price of $1.50 per warrant, generating gross proceeds of $10,000,000.
On July 6, 2021, a total of $252,500,000, comprised of $245,000,000 of the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering (which amount includes $8,750,000 of the underwriters’ deferred discount payable to the underwriters solely in the event that the Company completes an Initial Business Combination, subject to the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, dated June 30, 2021, by and between us and B. Riley Securities, Inc., as underwriter) and $7,500,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the Initial Private Placement, was placed in a U.S.-based trust account at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee.
Subsequently, on August 5, 2021, the underwriter fully exercised its 45-day option (the “Over-Allotment Option”) to purchase an additional 3,750,000 Units (the “Over-Allotment Units”) to cover over-allotments, and the closing of the issuance and sale of the Over-Allotment Units occurred on August 10, 2021. The issuance of the Over-Allotment Units at a price of $10.00 per Over-Allotment Unit resulted in total gross proceeds of $37,500,000. On August 10, 2021, simultaneously with the issuance and sale of the Over-Allotment Units, we consummated the sale of an additional 525,000 warrants to the Sponsor and 225,000 warrants to the Anchor Investor (the “Over-Allotment Private Placement, and, together with the Initial Private Placement, the “Private Placements,” and each warrant issued in the Private Placements, a “Private Placement Warrant”), at a purchase price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant generating gross proceeds of $1,125,000. The Private Placement Warrant issued in connection with the Over-Allotment Private Placement were issued pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as the transaction did not involve a public offering.
Business Strategy
To be successful in today’s competitive technology landscape, we believe it is important to have recent and relevant operational experience in high-growth companies coupled with deep ties to the venture capital and private equity funding ecosystem and experience working on public company boards. It is vital that the team have experience working together, aligned interests, and a mindset that puts the company first. We have applied this lens when building our team and business strategy.
Our team is comprised of industry leaders who have deep experience as executives, investors and board members in some of the most significant technology companies and platforms of this era. We intend to source Initial Business Combination opportunities through our team’s extensive networks. Over the course of their careers, the members of our team have developed a broad network of contacts and corporate relationships across the venture capital, growth equity and private equity landscape, and including founders, seasoned