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SPACInsider — 108 episodes

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Replay: Revisiting the 2024 SPAC Market Roundtable Predictions

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Dr. Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Quantum Computing Firm Pasqal

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

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

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

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

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

8

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21

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

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How BOXABL Plans to Scale Housing Affordability (FGMC)

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

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

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

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Dynamix CEO Andrejka Bernatova Discusses The Ether Machine (ETHM)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Inside Colombier II’s $197M GrabAGun Deal

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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

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

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Ed Nabrotzky, CEO of Industrial Technology Firm Dot Ai

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

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Betsy Cohen and Max Smeal Discuss the SPAC Market

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

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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

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

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

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

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One Energy's Founder and CEO, Jereme Kent

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

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Sky Harbour CFO Francisco Gonzalez

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

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

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Solidion and Nubia Brand International CEO Jaymes Winters

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Abacus Life Chairman and CEO Jay Jackson

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Breaking Down the New SEC SPAC Rules with Legal Experts

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

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Zapata AI's CEO & Co-Founder Christopher Savoie

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Omeed Malik, Chairman & CEO of the Colombier SPACs

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

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Royalty Management Holdings CFO Kirk Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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Rohan Malhotra, CEO and Co-Founder of Roadzen

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Brandon Mintz, CEO of Bitcoin Depot

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

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

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Carbon Revolution CEO Jake Dingle

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Critical Metals Chairman Tony Sage

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ZeroNox President and Co-Founder Robert Cruess

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OpSec Security CEO Selva Selvaratnam

79

SilverBox Capital’s Stephen Kadenacy and Joe Reece

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

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Bonus Episode: What’s Driving SPACs Offshore?

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Greg Moran, Co-Founder and CEO of Zoomcar

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Tim Sheehy, Founder and CEO of Bridger Aerospace

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

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Complete Solaria CEO Will Anderson and Freedom I CEO Adam Gishen

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

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

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Tempo Automation President & CEO Joy Weiss and Chairman Behrooz Abdi

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LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren

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

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Plastiq Founder & CEO Eliot Buchanan

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Abacus Life President and CEO Jay Jackson

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

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

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FiscalNote Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Tim Hwang

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

97

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

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Gastón Paladini, Co-founder and CEO of Moolec Science

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

100

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

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Raj Suri, Founder & CEO of Presto

102

Stu Landesberg, Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative

103

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

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Scott Ford, CEO and Co-founder of Westrock Coffee

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

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Anil Mathews, Founder & CEO of Near

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

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American Acquisition Opportunity, Inc. CFO, Kirk Taylor