ORGANIZATION, PLAN OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS, GOING CONCERN AND MANAGEMENT'S PLANS, RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES, AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION | NOTE 1 — ORGANIZATION, PLAN OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS, GOING CONCERN AND MANAGEMENT’S PLANS, RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES, AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION Signal Hill Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on February 18, 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 not limited to a particular industry or sector for purposes of consummating a 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. All activity for the period from February 18, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2023 relates to the Company’s formation, the initial public offering (“IPO”), which is described below and, since the closing of the IPO, 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 will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the IPO. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end. The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on February 10, 2022. On February 15, 2022, the Company consummated the IPO of 10,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the Units sold, the “public shares” or the “Class A Common Stock”), generating gross proceeds of $100,000,000, which is described in Note 3. Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO and in a second closing on February 28, 2022, the Company consummated the sale of an aggregate of 6,000,000 private placement warrants at a price of $1.00 per private placement warrant in a private placement to Signal Hill Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (the “sponsor”) and certain initial stockholders, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $6,000,000. Transaction costs related to the IPO amounted to $2,736,847, consisting of $2,000,000 of underwriting fees and $736,847 of other offering costs. In addition, cash of $1,012,777 was held outside of the Trust Account (as defined below) and is available for the payment of offering costs and for working capital purposes. As described in Note 6, $3,500,000 of business combination marketing fees become due and payable upon the consummation of the Business Combination. Transaction costs related to the private placement amounted to $7,483,893 as of February 15, 2022, which represented the estimated fair value of Class B common stock to be transferred to investors in the offering. Following the closing of the IPO on February 15, 2022, an amount of $102,000,000 ($10.20 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the IPO and the sale of the private placement warrants was placed in a U.S.-based Trust Account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”), to be invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund meeting the conditions of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s shareholders, as described below. The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of private placement warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating one or more Business Combinations. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to complete a Business Combination successfully. The Company must complete one or more initial Business Combinations with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the Trust Account (excluding the taxes payable on the interest earned on the Trust Account). The Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. The Company will provide the holders of the outstanding public shares (the “Public Stockholders”) with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve a Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer in connection with a Business Combination. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of a Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company. The Public Stockholders will be entitled to redeem their public shares for a pro rata portion of the amount then in the Trust Account (initially anticipated to be $10.20 per public share, plus any pro rata interest then in the Trust Account, net of taxes payable). There will be no redemption rights upon the completion of a Business Combination with respect to the Company’s warrants. The Company will not redeem public shares in an amount that would cause the Company’s net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to the Business Combination. If the Company seeks stockholder approval of the Business Combination, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if a majority of the outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination, or such other vote as required by law or stock exchange rule. If a stockholder vote is not required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements and the Company does not decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other reasons, the Company will, pursuant to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), conduct the redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination. If, however, stockholder approval of the transaction is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements, or the Company decides to obtain stockholder approval for business or other reasons, the Company will offer to redeem shares in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy rules and not pursuant to the tender offer rules. If the Company seeks stockholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the sponsor has agreed to vote its founder shares and any public shares purchased during or after the IPO in favor of approving a Business Combination. Additionally, each Public Stockholder may elect to redeem their public shares without voting, and if they do vote, irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company seeks stockholder approval of a Business Combination and it does not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, the Certificate of Incorporation will provide that a Public Stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the public shares, without the prior consent of the Company. The sponsor has agreed (a) to waive its redemption rights with respect to the founder shares and public shares held by it in connection with the completion of a Business Combination and (b) not to propose an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation (i) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemptions in connection with a Business Combination or to redeem 100% of its public shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period (as defined below) or (ii) with respect to any other material provision relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity, unless the Company provides the Public Stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares in conjunction with any such amendment. The Company has 15 months from closing of the IPO (ending on May 15, 2023), which is extendable at our option to up to 21 months from the closing of the IPO (to end on November 15, 2023), as described below, (the “Combination Period”) to complete a Business Combination. If the Company has not completed a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Company will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within 15 months from the closing of the IPO, the Company may, by resolution of its board if requested by its sponsor, extend the period of time to consummate a Business Combination up to two times, each by an additional three months (for a total of up to 21 months from the closing of the IPO), subject to the sponsor depositing additional funds into the Trust Account as set out below. Public Stockholders, in this situation, will not be offered the opportunity to vote on or redeem their shares in connection with such extensions. Pursuant to the terms of the Company’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation and the trust agreement, in order for the time available for the Company to consummate the Business Combination to be extended, the sponsor or its affiliates or designees, upon five The sponsor, certain initial stockholders of the Company and its officers and directors entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any founder shares held by them if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Combination Period. However, if the sponsor, initial stockholders, officers or directors acquire public shares in or after the IPO, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such public shares if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Combination Period. In order to protect the amounts held in the Trust Account, the sponsor has agreed to be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below (i) $10.20 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.20 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account and except as to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriter of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. The Company will seek to reduce the possibility that the sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers (except for the Company’s independent registered accounting firm), prospective target businesses and other entities with which the Company does business, execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account. Going Concern and Management’s Plans At March 31, 2023, the Company had $283,355 of cash and working capital of $381,607 (which includes a pending reimbursement from the Trust Account for the Company’s franchise taxes and income taxes in the aggregate amount of $483,927). Management has determined that there is a possibility that the Company may be unsuccessful in consummating an initial Business Combination within 15 months (or up to 21 months if the Company extends the period of time to consummate a Business Combination for total payment value of $2,000,000) from the closing of the IPO, and thereby be required to cease all operations, redeem the public shares and thereafter liquidate and dissolve, raises substantial doubt about the ability to continue as a going concern for at least one year from the date these financial statements are issued. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Management has determined that the Company has funds that are sufficient to fund the working capital needs of the Company until the end of the initial 15-month period to consummate an initial Business Combination or the winding up of the Company as stipulated in the Company’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation. If the Company decides to extend the business combination period by three or six months, then the Company will need to raise additional capital in order to fund the working capital needs of the Company. The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP (as defined below), which contemplate continuation of the Company as a going concern and the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. The carrying amounts of assets and liabilities presented in the financial statements do not necessarily purport to represent realizable or settlement values. The financial statements do not include any adjustment that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Risks and Uncertainties Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed into federal law which, among other things, imposes a new U.S. federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock by publicly traded U.S. domestic corporations and certain U.S. domestic subsidiaries of publicly traded foreign corporations occurring on or after January 1, 2023. The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself, not its shareholders from which shares are repurchased. The amount of the excise tax is generally 1% of the fair market value of the shares repurchased at the time of the repurchase. However, for purposes of calculating this excise tax, repurchasing corporations are permitted to net the fair market value of certain new stock issuances against the fair market value of stock repurchases during the same taxable year. In addition, certain exceptions apply to the excise tax. The U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) has been given authority to provide regulations and other guidance to carry out and to prevent the abuse or avoidance of the excise tax. On December 27, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released a notice that describes proposed regulations that the IRS intends to issue addressing the application of the excise tax. Pursuant to the IRS notice, (i) complete liquidation of the Company is generally exempt from the Excise Tax, and (ii) redemptions of the Company’s stock as part of a de-SPAC transaction would be treated as repurchases subject to the Excise Tax. Any redemption or other repurchase that occurs after December 31, 2022, in connection with a Business Combination, extension vote, or otherwise may be subject to the excise tax. Whether and to what extent the Company would be subject to the excise tax in connection with a Business Combination, extension vote, or otherwise would depend on a number of given factors including (i) the fair market value of redemptions and repurchases in connection with the Business Combination, extension or otherwise, (ii) the structure of a Business Combination, (iii) the nature and amount of any “PIPE” or other equity issuances in connection with a Business Combination (or otherwise issued not in connection with a Business Combination but issued within the same taxable year of a Business Combination) and (iv) the content of regulations and other guidance from the Treasury. In addition, because the excise tax would be payable by the Company and not the redeeming holder, the mechanics of any required payment of the excise tax have not been determined. The foregoing could cause as a reduction in the cash available on hand to complete a Business Combination and in the Company’s ability to complete a Business Combination. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, such statements include all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring items) which are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the unaudited condensed financial statements of the Company as of March 31, 2023 and for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full year ending December 31, 2023 or any other period. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and related disclosures as of December 31, 2022 and for the year then ended which are included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 24, 2023. |