We intend to focus on technology-enabled businesses. Our sponsor is an affiliate of Lerer Hippeau, a venture capital firm based in New York, with about $1 billion under management. Lerer Hippeau has managed over 400 portfolio company investments across industry sectors in the United States and Canada. The company has been recognized by PitchBook Data, Inc. as […]

InterPrivate, the merchant bank, is backing this FinTech-focused SPAC. Ahmed M. Fattouh is our chairman and CEO. We currently intend to concentrate our efforts in identifying businesses in the financial services industry with a particular focus on tech-enabled companies where our expertise, experience, network and access to public markets will allow us to identify differentiated merger […]

InterPrivate, a merchant bank, is backing this second blank-check company (SPAC) that will search for unicorns, which are private companies with individual market valuations of $1 billion or more, to acquire or merge with in an initial business combination. Ahmed M. Fattouh, the CEO of InterPrivate, is in charge of InterPrivate II Acquisition. (Note: InterPrivate […]

FTAC Hera Acquisition takes its name from the Greek goddess, Hera. She was the Queen of the Gods and the wife of Zeus. This is the eighth FinTech-focused SPAC created and led by Betsy Z. Cohen, the founder and the former CEO of The Bancorp. Ms. Cohen is the chairman of the board. Her son, […]

This is the third blank-check company created by HPS Investment Partners. No target sector has been identified yet. Our sponsor, Altimar Sponsor III, LLC, is affiliated with HPS Investment Partners, a global investment firm with about $67 billion of assets under management as of Dec.1, 2020. Scott Kapnick is the founder, CEO and governing partner of […]

We currently intend to focus on identifying businesses that can benefit from our sponsor’s position as a leading owner, investor, operator, and developer of real estate assets, including real estate-adjacent businesses and technologies targeting the real estate space, which we refer to as “PropTech” businesses. (Note: RXR Acquisition Corp. upsized its IPO at pricing on […]

Joanna Coles, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazines, and Jonathan Ledecky, an entrepreneur and an owner of the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders, are running this SPAC, which will search for DTC (direct-to-consumer) and digitally disruptive companies and brands. (Northern Star Investment Corp. IV upsized its SPAC IPO at pricing on […]

Matthew Safaii is our CEO and the founder of Arrowroot Capital. Thomas Olivier is our president and CFO and a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group.  We intend to focus on a target in an industry which complements our executive team’s, board’s and sponsor’s expertise. We also intend to focus on […]

We are led by Joanna Coles, the chairperson of our board of directors and CEO, and Jonathan J. Ledecky, our president and COO. Ms. Coles was previously the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and the chief content officer of Hearst Magazines. Mr. Ledecky has an extensive track record of involvement in public companies and acquisition vehicles. […]

We intend to focus on industries that complement our sponsor’s and management team’s background in technology, digitalization, and disruption. The team’s military service background and “special operations” culture is unique amongst special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) management teams. (We are a newly organized blank check company incorporated in December 2020 as a Cayman Islands exempted company.) […]