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Family offices are targeting 800% returns with SPAC economics Ark Invests Cathie Wood thinks Shopify could be next Amazon Christine Pooles Top Picks: April 15, 2021 Cooler heads prevailed (mostly) during COVID market mayhem: Survey Coinbase optimism on Wall Street battles Bitcoin weakness Chinas very bad bank: Inside the Huarong debt debacle David Fingolds Top Picks: April 14, 2021 Archegos ripples through banks lucrative hedge fund business Turkey bans cryptocurrency payments, saying risks are...

Family Offices: Karen Pritzker, Dan Och, Ed Freedman Bet on SPACs Related Stories April 9, 2021 April 6, 2021 April 5, 2021 The Pritzkers built an empire spanning hotels to manufacturing before agreeing two decades ago to split up their fortune among 11 descendants. Karen Pritzker Karen Pritzker, one of the heirs, has parlayed that wealth into venture capital, backing firms such as Snap Inc. and The Pritzker Vlock Family Office is the anchor investor for Thimble Point Acquisition Corp., a sp...

Family Offices Targeting 800% Returns with SPAC Economics But family offices—the discrete, sometimes secretive firms that manage the affairs of the ultra-rich—have been one of the biggest driving forces. Apr 16, 2021 (Bloomberg)—The Pritzkers built an empire spanning hotels to manufacturing before agreeing two decades ago to split up their fortune among 11 descendants. Karen Pritzker, one of the heirs, has parlayed that wealth into venture capital, backing firms such as Snap Inc. an...

Momentus CEO Mikhail Kokorich resigned in January 2021 due to regulatory concerns. Photo: Momentus Momentus‘ founding CEO Mikhail Kokorich has resigned amid the company’s efforts to go public, due to regulatory concerns with his status as a Russian citizen. The company announced Jan. 25 that Kokorich has resigned, and Dawn Harms has been named interim CEO.   Stable Road Acquisition Corp., through which it will become a publicly traded company. The company said in the Jan. 25 release that ...

January 28, 2021 It’s no surprise that the world of meme-driven stock speculation and the “new space” business have significant overlap. Market watchers have been transfixed by the surging share price of GameStop, a brick-and-mortar video game retailer that has seen its value increase more than twelvefold thanks to the wild intersection of an activist investor promising to transform the company for the digital era, massive bets against GameStop by short-selling hedge funds, a flood of ret...

January 25, 2021 The Russian founder and CEO of Momentus Space resigned today after investigations into his access to restricted space technology interfered with his company’s attempt to go public through a purchase by a blank-check company. The company’s board said Mikhail Kokorich’s resignation came in “an effort to expedite the resolution of U.S. government national security and foreign ownership concerns surrounding the Company, the existence of which the Company recently has confir...

New Providence Acquisition Corp pairs sky-high hopes with blue-sky promises -- and its stock is rocketing into orbit.

Top 10 Space Commerce Events & SciFi Movies, Space Documentaries and Series for 2020 As humans, if we are able to imagine it, we suddenly become closer to being able to build it” — Michael PotterAUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, January 1, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Institute of Space Commerce (ISC) has announced its final winner of Best Outer Space Films of 2020. The Institute’s co-Founder, Chris Stott declared, “Life does imitate art, and the Institute’s choices for the Best Outer ...

Now what NPA says the new IPO, tickered "ASTS," will come public with a $1.8 billion market capitalization and a $1.4 billion enterprise value, of which $462 million will be cash that AS&T can use to build its business. The companys aim will be to address a $1 trillion need to enable cellphones that are already in existence to communicate with each other via satellite. Those are some big numbers, and they may be the reason that investors in other "space stocks" are getting excited about the eme...

Space-Based Internet Start-Up AST To Go Public Via SPAC Deal By Lou Whiteman 12/17/20 AT 1:25 AM AST & Science, a company trying to deliver broadband-speed internet to smartphones without any additional equipment, is jumping on the SPAC train, agreeing to a deal with special purpose acquisition company New Providence Acquisition (NASDAQ:NPA) that would take the company public. AST is developing a constellation of satellites it calls SpaceMobile that it says will allow terrestrial pho...