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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We are a newly organized blank check company. We intend to focus our search for an acquisition target on companies in the technology industry.
Samuel A. Jernigan IV, our CEO and director since August 2025, is a global macro investor with nearly 20 years of experience deploying capital across major asset classes, and a decade specializing in cryptography, distributed systems and blockchain assets. Since June 2024, he has been the chief investment officer of Lafayette Macro Investors, an alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets through liquid and venture strategies. Starting in January 2024, Mr. Jernigan has served as a Senior Advisor to the Scroll Foundation, Puffer Foundation, and Liquid Collective. From March 2021 to December 2023, he built out and led liquid and venture investing for Louis Bacon’s family office at Moore Capital Management LP as the head of digital assets.
Robert Munro, our Chief Financial Officer since December 2025 and director since August 2025, is an experienced financial services professional with an approximately 30-year career. In September 2025, he co-founded and has been a General Partner as well as COO/CFO/CCO of Black Pill Capital, a hedge fund focused on Bitcoin development. From August 2021 to November 2024, Mr. Munro most recently served as the COO/CFO/CCO of Yorkville Advisors, a global hedge fund based in New Jersey. From November 2015 to March 2020, prior to joining Yorkville, he served as the COO, CFO and chief compliance officer of Sentient Investment Management, a venture capital-backed hedge fund founded by the co-creators of Siri. Sentient Investment Management is focused on AI (artificial intelligence).
(Note: Lafayette Digital Acquisition Corp. I priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 25 million units at $10.00 each to raise $250 million – on Thursday night, Jan. 8, 2025. Each unit consists of one share of stock and one-fourth of a redeemable warrant.)
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