−Removed: Management’s Discussion and
−Removed: Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis
+Added: of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
References to the “Company,” “our,”
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statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking
−Removed: This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking
−Removed: statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
−Removed: of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and
−Removed: projections about future events.
−Removed: These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions
−Removed: about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future
−Removed: results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
−Removed: In some cases, you
−Removed: can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,”
−Removed: “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,”
−Removed: or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions.
−Removed: Such statements include, but are not limited to, possible business combinations
−Removed: and the financing thereof, and related matters, as well as all other statements other than statements of historical fact included in
−Removed: this Form 10-Q.
−Removed: Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in our
−Removed: other Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings.
−Removed: We are a blank check company incorporated on
−Removed: January 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share
−Removed: purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (the “Business Combination”),
−Removed: that we have not yet identified.
−Removed: While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any business or industry, we intent to
−Removed: focus our search for targets in the Israeli technology industry, including those engaged in cybersecurity, automotive technology, fintech,
−Removed: enterprise software, cloud computing, semiconductors, medical technology, AI and robotics and that offer a differentiated technology
−Removed: platform and products.
+Added: We are a blank check company incorporated on January
+Added: 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase,
+Added: reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (the “Business Combination”), that
+Added: we have not yet identified.
+Added: While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any business or industry, we intent to focus
+Added: our search for targets in the Israeli technology industry, including those engaged in cybersecurity, automotive technology, fintech, enterprise
+Added: software, cloud computing, semiconductors, medical technology, AI and robotics and that offer a differentiated technology platform and
Our sponsor is Byte Holdings LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (our “Sponsor”).
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offering was declared effective on March 17, 2021.
−Removed: On March 23, 2021, we consummated its Initial Public Offering of 30,000,000 units
−Removed: (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”),
+Added: On March 23, 2021, we consummated its Initial Public Offering of 30,000,000 units (the
+Added: “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”),
at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $300.0 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $17.2 million, inclusive
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Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering,
−Removed: sale of the Over-Allotment Units, and the Private Placement, $323.7 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the
−Removed: Units in the Initial Public Offering and certain of proceeds of the Private Placement were placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”)
+Added: sale of the Over-Allotment Units, and the Private Placement, $323.7 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the Units
+Added: in the Initial Public Offering and certain of proceeds of the Private Placement were placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”)
with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee and invested in United States “government securities”
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certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S.
−Removed: government treasury
−Removed: obligations, as determined by us, until the earlier of:
−Removed: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the
−Removed: Trust Account to the shareholders.
+Added: government treasury obligations,
+Added: as determined by us, until the earlier of:
+Added: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account
+Added: to the shareholders.
If we are unable to complete a Business Combination
−Removed: within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or March 23, 2023, we will (i) cease all operations except for the
−Removed: purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but no more than 10 business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding
−Removed: Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest
−Removed: earned (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public
−Removed: Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive
−Removed: further liquidation distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval
−Removed: of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to its obligations under Cayman
−Removed: Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
+Added: by the Extended Date, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but
+Added: no more than 10 business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to
+Added: the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest
+Added: to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public
+Added: shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly
+Added: as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve
+Added: and liquidate, subject in each case to its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements
+Added: of other applicable law.
+Added: The Company had until
+Added: March 23, 2023 to consummate an initial business combination.
+Added: On March 16, 2023, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of
+Added: shareholders (the “EGM”).
+Added: In this meeting the shareholders approved amendments to the Company’s amended and restated
+Added: memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which the Company must complete an initial business combination from March
+Added: 23, 2023 to September 25, 2023 (the “Extension” and such date, the “Extended Date”).
+Added: In connection with the EGM,
+Added: shareholders holding an aggregate of 30,006,034 shares of the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares exercised their right to redeem
+Added: their shares for $10.20 per share of the funds held in the Company’s trust account, leaving approximately $24.1 million in the trust
+Added: account after such redemption.
+Added: Non-Redemption Agreements
+Added: On March 8, 2023, the
+Added: Company entered into non-redemption agreements (collectively, the “Non-Redemption Agreements”) with certain of its existing
+Added: shareholders (the “Non-Redeeming Shareholders”) holding Class A Ordinary Shares of the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the Non-Redemption
+Added: Agreements, each of the Non-Redeeming Shareholders agreed to (a) not redeem 1,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares held by them on the date
+Added: of the Non-Redemption Agreements (the “Shares”) in connection with the vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated
+Added: memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which the Company has to consummate an initial business combination from
+Added: March 23, 2023 to September 25, 2023 and (b) vote their Shares in favor of the Extension presented by the Company for approval by its
+Added: shareholders.
+Added: In connection with the foregoing, the Company agreed to pay to each Non-Redeeming Shareholder $0.033 per Share in cash per
+Added: month through the Extended Date.
+Added: Letter of Intent
+Added: On March 10, 2023, the
+Added: Company issued a press release announcing that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (“LOI”) for a business combination
+Added: with Airship AI Holdings, Inc.
+Added: (“Airship AI”).
+Added: Airship AI, a robust AI-driven edge video, sensor and data management platform
+Added: for government agencies and enterprises that gathers unstructured data from surveillance cameras and sensors, applies artificial intelligence
+Added: (“AI”) analytics, and provides visualization tools to improve decision making in mission critical environments.
+Added: terms of the LOI, the Company and Airship AI would become a combined entity, with Airship AI’s existing equity holders rolling 100%
+Added: of their equity into the combined public company.
+Added: The proposed transaction values Airship AI at an enterprise value of $290 million.
+Added: Company expects to announce additional details regarding the proposed business combination when a definitive merger agreement is executed.
+Added: Class B Conversion
+Added: Effective as of March 27, 2023, pursuant to the terms of the amended
+Added: and restated memorandum and articles of association after the EGM, the Sponsor elected to convert each outstanding Class B ordinary share
+Added: held by it on a one-for-one basis into Class A ordinary shares of the Company, with immediate effect.
Results of Operations
−Removed: Our entire activity since inception through September
+Added: Our entire activity since inception through March
31, 2023 related to our formation, the preparation for the Initial Public Offering, and since the closing of the Initial Public Offering,
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company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2022,
−Removed: we had net income of approximately $1.5 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of approximately $0.3 million resulting
−Removed: from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in the Trust Account of approximately $1.4
−Removed: million, partially offset by approximately $268,000 of general and administrative expenses, including $30,000 of general and administrative
−Removed: expenses to related parties.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2021,
−Removed: we had net income of approximately $9.8 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of approximately $10.0 million resulting
−Removed: from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in the Trust Account of approximately $6,000,
−Removed: partially offset by approximately $227,000 of general and administrative expenses, including $30,000 of general and administrative expenses
−Removed: to related parties.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2022,
−Removed: we had net income of approximately $8.7 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of approximately $7.7 million resulting
−Removed: from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in the Trust Account of approximately $1.9
−Removed: million, partially offset by approximately $905,000 of general and administrative expenses, including $90,000 of general and administrative
−Removed: expenses to related parties.
−Removed: For the period from January 8, 2021 (inception)
−Removed: through September 30, 2021, we had net income of approximately $3.9 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of approximately
−Removed: $5.4 million resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in the Trust Account
−Removed: of approximately $17,000, partially offset by approximately $684,000 of general and administrative expenses, including $70,000 of general
−Removed: and administrative expenses to related parties.
−Removed: Liquidity and Going Concern
−Removed: As of September 30, 2022, we had cash of $1.2
−Removed: Until the consummation of the Public Offering, our only source of liquidity was an initial purchase of ordinary shares and private
−Removed: placement units by the Sponsor and loans from our Sponsor.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2023, we
+Added: had net income of $1,163,141, which primarily consisted of interest earned from investments held in the Trust Account of $2,998,349 and
+Added: interest income from bank account of $9,275, offset by $675,589 of losses from operations and a noncash loss of $1,168,894 resulting from
+Added: changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we
+Added: had net income of $5,255,353, which primarily consisted of interest earned from investments held in the Trust Account of $30,627 and a
+Added: noncash gain of $5,573,010 resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities, offset by $348,284 of losses from operations.
+Added: Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern
+Added: Consideration
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, we had cash of $568,236.
+Added: Until the consummation of the Public Offering, our only source of liquidity was an initial purchase of ordinary shares and private placement
+Added: units by the Sponsor and loans from our Sponsor.
Our liquidity needs prior to the consummation
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going concern.
−Removed: No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should the Company be required to liquidate
−Removed: after March 23, 2023.
−Removed: The unaudited condensed financial statements do not include any adjustment that might be necessary if the Company
−Removed: is unable to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: We continue to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic and have concluded that the specific impact is not readily determinable as of the date of the balance sheet.
−Removed: The unaudited condensed
−Removed: financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Management continues to seek to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period.
+Added: No adjustments have been
+Added: made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should the Company be required to liquidate after the Extended Date.
+Added: The financial
+Added: statements do not include any adjustment that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
Contractual Obligations
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Critical Accounting Policies
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements in accordance
−Removed: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates
−Removed: and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses.
−Removed: A summary of our significant accounting
−Removed: policies is included in Note 2 to our condensed financial statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report.
−Removed: Certain of our accounting
−Removed: policies are considered critical, as these policies are the most important to the depiction of our financial statements and require significant,
−Removed: difficult or complex judgments, often employing the use of estimates about the effects of matters that are inherently uncertain.
−Removed: policies are summarized in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section in
−Removed: our 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022.
−Removed: There have been no significant changes in the application of
−Removed: our critical accounting policies during the nine months ended September 30, 2022.
+Added: The preparation of financial statements and related
+Added: disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates
+Added: and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date
+Added: of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported.
+Added: Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.
+Added: We have identified the following critical accounting policy:
+Added: Derivative Warrant Liabilities
+Added: We do not use derivative instruments to hedge
+Added: exposures to cash flow, market, or foreign currency risks.
+Added: We evaluate all of our financial instruments, including issued stock purchase
+Added: warrants and forward purchase agreements, to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded
+Added: derivatives, pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity” (“ASC 480”) and FASB ASC
+Added: Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”).
+Added: The classification of derivative instruments, including whether
+Added: such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is re-assessed at the end of each reporting period.
+Added: The warrants issued in connection with the Initial
+Added: Public Offering and the Private Placement Warrants are recognized as derivative liabilities in accordance with ASC 815.
+Added: Accordingly, we
+Added: recognize the warrant instruments as liabilities at fair value and adjusts the instruments to fair value at each reporting period.
+Added: liabilities are subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date until exercised, and any change in fair value is recognized in the
+Added: Company’s statements of operations.
+Added: The initial estimated fair value of the warrants was measured using a Monte Carlo simulation.
+Added: The subsequent estimated fair value of the Public Warrants is based on the listed price in an active market for such warrants while the
+Added: fair value of the Private Placement Warrants continues to be measured using a Monte Carlo simulation.
+Added: Class A ordinary shares subject to possible
+Added: We account for our Class A ordinary shares subject
+Added: to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480.
+Added: Class A ordinary shares subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is
+Added: classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value.
+Added: Conditionally redeemable Class A ordinary shares (including Class
+Added: ordinary shares that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence
+Added: of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity.
+Added: At all other times, Class A ordinary
+Added: shares are classified as shareholders’ equity.
+Added: The Company’s Public Shares feature certain redemption rights that are considered
+Added: to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events.
+Added: Accordingly, as of March 31, 2023
+Added: and December 31, 2022, 2,363,217 and 32,369,251 Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value
+Added: as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ equity section of our balance sheet.
+Added: Effective with the closing of the Public Offering
+Added: (including sale of the Over-Allotment Units), we recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption amount, which resulted
+Added: in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit.
+Added: Net Income per ordinary share
+Added: We have two classes of shares, which are referred to as Class A ordinary
+Added: shares subject to possible redemption and non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares.
+Added: Income and losses are shared
+Added: pro rata between the two classes of shares.
+Added: Net income per ordinary share is calculated by dividing the net income by the weighted average
+Added: of ordinary shares outstanding for the respective period.
+Added: The calculation of diluted net income per ordinary
+Added: shares does not consider the effect of the warrants issued in connection with the Public Offering (including sale of the Over-Allotment
+Added: Units) and the Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 16,699,626 ordinary shares in the calculation of diluted income per share,
+Added: because their exercise is contingent upon future events and their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method.
+Added: a result, diluted net income per share is the same as basic net income per share for the period ended March 31, 2023 and December 31,
+Added: Accretion associated with the redeemable Class A ordinary shares is excluded from net income per share as the redemption value approximates
Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: See Note 2 to the unaudited condensed financial
−Removed: statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report for a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements.
+Added: In June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards
+Added: Update (“ASU”) 2016-13 – Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326):
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial
+Added: Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”).
+Added: This update requires financial assets measured at amortized cost basis to be presented at the
+Added: net amount expected to be collected.
+Added: The measurement of expected credit losses is based on relevant information about past events, including
+Added: historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount.
+Added: Since June 2016, the FASB issued clarifying updates to the new standard including changing the effective date for smaller reporting companies.
+Added: The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early
+Added: adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 on January 1, 2023.
+Added: The adoption of ASU 2016-13 did not an impact on its financial
+Added: Management does not believe that any other recently
+Added: issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual
−Removed: As of September 30, 2022, we did not have any
−Removed: off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations.
−Removed: The JOBS Act contains provisions that, among
−Removed: other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies.
−Removed: We qualify as an “emerging growth company”
−Removed: and under the JOBS Act are allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not
−Removed: publicly traded) companies.
−Removed: We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not
−Removed: comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-emerging
−Removed: growth companies.
−Removed: As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with new or revised accounting
−Removed: pronouncements as of public company effective dates.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, we did not have any off-balance
+Added: sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations.
+Added: The JOBS Act contains provisions that, among other
+Added: things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies.
+Added: We qualify as an “emerging growth company” and
+Added: under the JOBS Act are allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not publicly
+Added: traded) companies.
+Added: We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with
+Added: new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-emerging growth companies.
+Added: As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements as
+Added: of public company effective dates.
Additionally, we are in the process of evaluating
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in the JOBS Act, if, as an “emerging growth company,” we choose to rely on such exemptions we may not be required to, among
−Removed: other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant
−Removed: to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth
−Removed: public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted
−Removed: by the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about
+Added: other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to
+Added: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public
+Added: companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by
+Added: the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about
the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis) and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation related items
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