Ticker LaunchSPAC · Merger completed
Software Acquisition Group Inc.
Business combination with Curiosity Inc.
Software Acquisition Group Inc. is a blank-check company (SPAC) that raised $130M in its initial public offering on Nov 21, 2019, listing on Nasdaq Capital Market. It completed its business combination with Curiosity Inc. on Oct 14, 2020; the combined company is CuriosityStream Inc. (CURI). Ellenoff Grossman & Schole advised the SPAC and Kirkland & Ellis advised the underwriters on the IPO.
Curiosity Inc. operates CuriosityStream, a global independent factual media company launched by John Hendricks. It is the target of a business combination with Software Acquisition Group.
- Status
- Merger completed
- IPO date
- Nov 21, 2019
- IPO size
- $130M
- IPO exchange
- Nasdaq Capital Market
- Target
- Curiosity Inc. (Legacy CuriosityStream)
- Announced
- Aug 11, 2020
- Closed
- Oct 14, 2020
- Combined company
- CuriosityStream Inc. (CURI)
- SPAC counsel (IPO)
- Ellenoff Grossman & Schole
- Underwriters' counsel (IPO)
- Kirkland & Ellis
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- Liquidation deadline and extension history
- PIPE and other committed financing
- Merger proxy, registration statement and investor presentation
- Analyst notes from the filings
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Filings
- IPO prospectus (424B4) Nov 21, 2019
- Deal announcement (8-K) Aug 11, 2020
- Press release
- All filings on EDGAR CIK 1776909
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