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SPACInsider — 113 episodes

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Trasteel on Trade Disruption and a Changing Steel Market

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Podcast: The State of the SPAC Market, from the Floor of the NYSE (Audio Version)

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The State of the SPAC Market, with Ares's Allyson Satin and BTIG's Paul Wood

4

ZincFive and Spark I (SPKL) on Powering Data Centers Beyond Lithium-Ion

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Forge Nano’s Paul Lichty on Building Better Batteries and Chips at the Atomic Level

6

Replay: Revisiting the 2024 SPAC Market Roundtable Predictions

7

Dr. Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Quantum Computing Firm Pasqal

8

Inside IQM’s $1.7B Quantum Computing Deal with Real Asset Acquisition Corp.

9

Carlos Domingo on Securitize, Tokenization and Its SPAC Deal with Cantor Equity Partners II

10

What Comes Next for Crypto Treasury SPACs? Vik Mittal and Ivan Deryugin Weigh In

11

ONE Nuclear’s Richard Taylor and Dan Hennessy on Meeting Surging Power Demand

12

AIR CEO Stuart Brazier on AIR’s $1.7B SPAC Deal and the Business of Hookah

13

General Fusion’s Greg Twinney and Spring Valley III’s Chris Sorrells on Their $724M Fusion Deal

14

Inside Key Mining’s $303M deal with Compass Digital Acquisition Corp.

15

Adam Back and Sean Bill on Bitcoin Standard Treasury’s $4bn Deal with CEPO

16

Building the Defense Backbone: Precision Aerospace & Defense and FACT II Acquisition Corp.

17

Horizon Quantum and dMY Squared (DMYY) on Building the Quantum Tech Stack

18

Maximilian Martin on The Enhanced Games, Where Banned Substances Are the Point

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Podcast REPLAY: D-Wave, SPACs, and the Quantum Revival

20

Dr. Christian Weedbrook and Bill Fradin on Xanadu’s $3.1B Quantum SPAC Deal

21

Teamshares and Live Oak V (LOKV) on Building a Programmatic M&A Platform

22

Asheesh Birla, CEO of Evernorth, on Building an XRP-Focused Crypto Treasury

23

Roozbeh Charli, CEO of Einride, on Designing Trucks for a Driverless Future

24

2025 SPAC Market Review and 2026 Outlook, with Ed Kovary and Jerry Serowik

25

Merlin Labs and Inflection Point IV - Bringing Autonomy to the Skies

26

Tactical Resources and Plum Acquisition Corp. III: Fast-Tracking Rare Earths

27

How BOXABL Plans to Scale Housing Affordability (FGMC)

28

Presidio and EQV Ventures: Optimizing Mature Oil & Gas Assets for Modern Returns

29

Infleqtion’s $1.8 Billion Quantum Leap with Churchill X (CCCX)

30

Small Reactors, Big Market: Terra Innovatum’s $475M Deal with GSR III

31

Dynamix CEO Andrejka Bernatova Discusses The Ether Machine (ETHM)

32

Betting on U.S. Uranium: A Conversation with Eagle Energy Metals and Spring Valley II

33

Kodiak CEO Don Burnette on Autonomous Trucking and Going Public with Ares II (AACT)

34

Replay: Revisiting SPACs in 2022 with Niccolo de Masi from the dMY Team

35

Inside ReserveOne's Deal with M-3 Brigade V (MBAV)

36

Simon Irish, CEO Terrestrial Energy, and Shawn Matthews, CEO & Chairman HCM II, Discuss Emerging Trends and Nuclear Power

37

SPACs Halfway through 2025: What’s Working, What’s Changing, What’s Next

38

Inside Kyivstar’s $2.2B SPAC Deal: Rebuilding Ukraine, One Tower at a Time

39

David Liu on Plus’ $1.3B SPAC Deal and the Future of Driverless Freight

40

Inside Colombier II’s $197M GrabAGun Deal

41

Replay: From Boom to Reset - Revisiting Harry Sloan’s 2022 SPAC Outlook

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Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber on Digitizing Global Trade in a Volatile 2025

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Rick Hendrix and Adam Fishman from the Live Oak Team

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Replay: Revisiting Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) with Co-Founder and CEO, Will Marshall

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Replay: Revisiting Aurora (NASDAQ:AUR) and CEO Chris Urmson

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Inside the Private Markets with Nick Fusco, Founder & CEO of PM Insights

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D-Wave's CEO, Alan Baratz, Discusses Quantum Computing

48

2025 SPAC Market Update with Dimitre Genov, Ed Kovary, and Nick Skibo

49

Ed Nabrotzky, CEO of Industrial Technology Firm Dot Ai

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Medera CEO Ronald Li & Keen Vision CEO and Chairman Kenneth Wong

51

Betsy Cohen and Max Smeal Discuss the SPAC Market

52

Will Gray, from New Era Helium, and John Lipman, from Roth CH V (ROCL)

53

SPACs and Taxes - What to Consider After the Election and Before the End of the Year

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SPAC Market Update with Dimitre Genov, Ed Kovary, and Nick Skibo

55

Baird Medical Senior Advisor & CMO David Kaysen and Excelfin's COO Brian Sun

56

XCF Global's CEO Mihir Dange and Focus Impact BH3's Co-CEO Wray Thorn

57

Vertiv's David Cote and GS I's Tom Knott Discuss the Success of their SPAC Combination

58

One Energy's Founder and CEO, Jereme Kent

59

DevvStream Co-Founder/CEO Sunny Trinh & Carl Stanton, CEO of Focus Impact (FIAC)

60

Sky Harbour CFO Francisco Gonzalez

61

Stardust Power CEO Roshan Pujari and Global Partner II (GPAC) CEO & Chairman Chandra Patel

62

Abpro Chairman & CEO Ian Chan and Shahraab Ahmad, Chairman & CEO of Atlantic Coastal II

63

Solidion and Nubia Brand International CEO Jaymes Winters

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Abacus Life Chairman and CEO Jay Jackson

65

Breaking Down the New SEC SPAC Rules with Legal Experts

66

Michael Zacharski, CEO of BEN and Chris Gaertner, Co-CEO & CFO of DHC Acquisition Corp.

67

Zapata AI's CEO & Co-Founder Christopher Savoie

68

Omeed Malik, Chairman & CEO of the Colombier SPACs

69

iLearningEngine’s CEO Harish Chidambaran & Matt Safaii, Chairman/CEO of Arrowroot Acq. Corp.

70

Royalty Management Holdings CFO Kirk Taylor

71

LatAm Logistics Properties CEO Esteban Saldarriaga, and two SPAC Chairman, Tom Hennessy

72

X-Energy’s CEO, J. Clay Sell, Discusses Smaller-Reactor Nuclear Power

73

Tim Moran of Avertix, and Ross Haghighat of BioPlus Acquisition Corp.

74

Brian Gordon of Verde Bioresins and Jin-Goon Kim of TLGY Acquisition Corp.

75

Vast CEO Craig Wood & Nabors Energy Transition (NETC) VP Guillermo Sierra

76

Rohan Malhotra, CEO and Co-Founder of Roadzen

77

Brandon Mintz, CEO of Bitcoin Depot

78

AtlasClear’s Craig Ridenhour and Quantum Fintech’s (QFTA) John Schaible

79

Hervé Tessler, CEO of Noventiq, and Jerry Letter, CFO and COO of Corner Growth Acquisition Corp.

80

Carbon Revolution CEO Jake Dingle

81

Critical Metals Chairman Tony Sage

82

ZeroNox President and Co-Founder Robert Cruess

83

OpSec Security CEO Selva Selvaratnam

84

SilverBox Capital’s Stephen Kadenacy and Joe Reece

85

Sudhir Panikassery, Founder & CEO of Aeries Technology, and Daniel Webb, CEO/CFO of Worldwide Webb

86

Bonus Episode: What’s Driving SPACs Offshore?

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Greg Moran, Co-Founder and CEO of Zoomcar

88

Tim Sheehy, Founder and CEO of Bridger Aerospace

89

Zapp Founder & CEO Swin Chatsuwan, and CIIG II Co-Ceo Gavin Cuneo

90

Complete Solaria CEO Will Anderson and Freedom I CEO Adam Gishen

91

Newsight Imaging Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Eli Assoolin

92

Wejo’s CEO Richard Barlow and TKB Critical Technologies 1 Co-CEO & CFO Angela Blatteis

93

Tempo Automation President & CEO Joy Weiss and Chairman Behrooz Abdi

94

LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren

95

Brandon Mintz, CEO of Bitcoin Depot & Gus Garcia, from GSR II Meteora

96

Plastiq Founder & CEO Eliot Buchanan

97

Abacus Life President and CEO Jay Jackson

98

De-SPACs and Projections - A Discussion with Jim Zukin and Christian Nagler

99

Getaround Founder & CEO Sam Zaid and Interprivate II Chairman & CEO Ahmed Fattouh

100

FiscalNote Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Tim Hwang

101

Selina CEO/Co-Founder Rafael Museri and BOA President /CFO Ben Friedman

102

Gorilla Technology’s Jay Chandan & Raj Natarajan Discuss AI solutions in the Edge Computing Space

103

Gastón Paladini, Co-founder and CEO of Moolec Science

104

Len Liptak, CEO of ProSomnus, and Bill Chen, CEO & Chairman of Lakeshore Acquisition I Corp.

105

Appreciate & PropTech II (PTIC) Discuss the Single-Family Rental Market

106

Raj Suri, Founder & CEO of Presto

107

Stu Landesberg, Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative

108

Nogin Co-Founder & CEO Jan-Christopher Nugent and Software Acq. Group III’s Jon Huberman

109

Scott Ford, CEO and Co-founder of Westrock Coffee

110

Dr. Denis Phares, CEO of Dragonfly Energy and Jonas Grossman, CEO/President of Chardan NexTech 2

111

Anil Mathews, Founder & CEO of Near

112

Bonus Episode: Jim Zukin discuss his new Reasonable Basis Review (”RBR”) product

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American Acquisition Opportunity, Inc. CFO, Kirk Taylor