Marketing tech company Banzai rang the opening bell at Nasdaq on Friday as the Seattle firm officially became a public company. Founded in 2016, Banzai announced a year ago that… Read More
No VC, no problem. Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investment, will soon become a publicly traded company after clearing SEC regulations this… Read More
Is the SPAC back? Seattle business leaders Ted and Chris Ackerley are betting on it. The Ackerley brothers are part of a new special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, called… Read More
A SPAC deal to take Vancouver, Wash.-based industrial headset company RealWear public has fallen apart. Cascadia Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company led by Seattle investment firm Cascadia Capital, announced… Read More
RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based company that sells industrial hands-free wearable “assisted reality” headsets, is going public via a SPAC deal with Seattle-based Cascadia Capital. The deal, announced Monday, will value… Read More
Banzai, a Seattle marketing software startup, announced Thursday that it will go public after it agreed to merge with a special-purpose acquisition company. The company also said that it will… Read More
The ceremonial ringing of the New York Stock Exchange opening bell Monday morning was symbolic in multiple ways for Jane Park. The Seattle entrepreneur, believed to be the first Korean-American… Read More
Rigetti is going public. The Bay Area-based makers of quantum computers and processors announced Wednesday that it will merge with a SPAC called Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II in a… Read More
BlackSky, the geospatial data analysis company that got its start in Seattle, eased into its first day of public trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, clinching a blank-check… Read More
Pittsburgh’s tech scene is getting some more love from Seattle. Cascadia Capital, a Seattle-based investment banking firm founded more than two decades ago, is eyeing Pittsburgh for its new special… Read More
An online marketplace that helps to facilitate trade between marijuana sellers and buyers will soon see its own stock traded on the Nasdaq. Another that connects pet owners with walkers,… Read More
Leafly is joining the SPAC party. The Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace plans to go public through a deal with New York-based Merida Merger Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, the… Read More
It started as a simple pitch at a Seattle hackathon for a marketplace to facilitate matches between pet owners and sitters. Now, a decade later, Rover is a publicly traded… Read More
Core Scientific is going public. The blockchain infrastructure company announced that it will merge with a SPAC called Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., and go public on the NASDAQ… Read More
Pet adoption rates have surged amid the pandemic, and pet spending accelerated last year. Those are a few of the tailwinds driving optimism at Rover as the Seattle startup prepares… Read More
— Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders and brothers Chad and Harlan Robins are among the directors of a new life sciences SPAC. The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III… Read More
Another day, another SPAC. Today, we’ve learned that Seattle online pet sitting marketplace Rover plans to join the public ranks via a merger with True Wind Capital’s SPAC that values… Read More
Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle-based biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel, is the latest company to go public using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The deal, announced… Read More
Serial entrepreneur Matt Ehrlichman was inspired to start Porch after encountering challenges during the construction of his family’s home. Eight years later, he just took the company public from the… Read More
The online used car marketplace Shift is moving into the Seattle region, expanding the 6-year-old company’s coverage area the length of the West Coast. Shoppers within a 60-mile radius of… Read More
Spencer Rascoff knows quite a bit about taking a company public. He helped launch Zillow in 2005 and led the Seattle real estate giant through an IPO in 2011. Rascoff… Read More
Erik Anderson is getting in on the SPAC rush. The WestRiver Group CEO and longtime Seattleite is teaming up with asset management firm Riverstone to launch a special purpose acquisition… Read More
Seattle-based Porch today named five directors that will join the company’s board when it goes public later this year. The real estate technology venture and home improvement marketplace announced plans… Read More