−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis
−Removed: of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
−Removed: References to the “Company,” “our,”
−Removed: “us” or “we” refer to BYTE Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed financial statements and the notes thereto
−Removed: contained elsewhere in this report.
−Removed: Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking
−Removed: statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: We are a blank check company incorporated on January
−Removed: 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase,
−Removed: reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (the “Business Combination”), that
−Removed: we have not yet identified.
−Removed: While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any business or industry, we intent to focus
−Removed: our search for targets in the Israeli technology industry, including those engaged in cybersecurity, automotive technology, fintech, enterprise
−Removed: software, cloud computing, semiconductors, medical technology, AI and robotics and that offer a differentiated technology platform and
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: to the “Company,” “our,” “us” or “we” refer to BYTE Acquisition Corp.
+Added: The following discussion
+Added: and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed
+Added: consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this report.
+Added: Certain information contained in the discussion
+Added: and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
+Added: Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
+Added: Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
+Added: amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: We have based these forward-looking
+Added: statements on our current expectations and projections about future events.
+Added: These forward-looking statements are subject to known and
+Added: unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements
+Added: to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
+Added: In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,”
+Added: “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,”
+Added: “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions.
+Added: Such statements include,
+Added: but are not limited to, possible business combinations and the financing thereof, and related matters, as well as all other statements
+Added: other than statements of historical fact included in this Form 10-Q.
+Added: Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include,
+Added: but are not limited to, those described in our other Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings.
+Added: are a blank check company incorporated on January 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger,
+Added: share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities
+Added: (the “Business Combination”).
+Added: While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any business or industry, we
+Added: intend to focus our search for targets in the Israeli technology industry, including those engaged in cybersecurity, automotive technology,
+Added: fintech, enterprise software, cloud computing, semiconductors, medical technology, AI and robotics and that offer a differentiated technology
+Added: platform and products.
Our sponsor is Byte Holdings LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (our “Sponsor”).
−Removed: Our registration statement for our initial public
−Removed: offering was declared effective on March 17, 2021.
−Removed: On March 23, 2021, we consummated its Initial Public Offering of 30,000,000 units (the
−Removed: “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”),
−Removed: at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $300.0 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $17.2 million, inclusive
−Removed: of approximately $10.5 million in deferred underwriting commissions.
−Removed: On April 7, 2021, the underwriter exercised the over-allotment option
−Removed: in part and purchased an additional 2,369,251 Units (the “Over-Allotment Units”), generating additional gross proceeds of
−Removed: $23,692,510 (such offering, including the exercise of the over-allotment, the “Initial Public Offering”).
−Removed: Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial
−Removed: Public Offering, we consummated the private placement (“Private Placement”) of 1,030,000 Units (the “Private Placement
−Removed: Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $10.3 million.
−Removed: 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 Units
−Removed: in the Initial Public Offering and certain of proceeds of the Private Placement were placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”)
−Removed: with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee and invested in United States “government securities”
−Removed: within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting
−Removed: certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S.
−Removed: government treasury obligations,
−Removed: as determined by us, until the earlier of:
−Removed: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account
−Removed: to the shareholders.
−Removed: If we are unable to complete a Business Combination
−Removed: by the Extended Date, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but
−Removed: no more than 10 business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to
−Removed: the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest
−Removed: to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public
−Removed: shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly
−Removed: as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve
−Removed: and liquidate, subject in each case to its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements
−Removed: of other applicable law.
−Removed: The Company had until
−Removed: March 23, 2023 to consummate an initial business combination.
−Removed: On March 16, 2023, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of
−Removed: shareholders (the “EGM”).
−Removed: In this meeting the shareholders approved amendments to the Company’s amended and restated
−Removed: memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which the Company must complete an initial business combination from March
−Removed: 23, 2023 to September 25, 2023 (the “Extension” and such date, the “Extended Date”).
−Removed: In connection with the EGM,
−Removed: shareholders holding an aggregate of 30,006,034 shares of the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares exercised their right to redeem
−Removed: 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
−Removed: account after such redemption.
−Removed: Non-Redemption Agreements
−Removed: On March 8, 2023, the
−Removed: Company entered into non-redemption agreements (collectively, the “Non-Redemption Agreements”) with certain of its existing
−Removed: shareholders (the “Non-Redeeming Shareholders”) holding Class A Ordinary Shares of the Company.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Non-Redemption
−Removed: 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
−Removed: of the Non-Redemption Agreements (the “Shares”) in connection with the vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated
−Removed: memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which the Company has to consummate an initial business combination from
−Removed: 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
−Removed: shareholders.
−Removed: In connection with the foregoing, the Company agreed to pay to each Non-Redeeming Shareholder $0.033 per Share in cash per
−Removed: month through the Extended Date.
−Removed: Letter of Intent
−Removed: On March 10, 2023, the
−Removed: Company issued a press release announcing that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (“LOI”) for a business combination
−Removed: with Airship AI Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: (“Airship AI”).
−Removed: Airship AI, a robust AI-driven edge video, sensor and data management platform
−Removed: for government agencies and enterprises that gathers unstructured data from surveillance cameras and sensors, applies artificial intelligence
−Removed: (“AI”) analytics, and provides visualization tools to improve decision making in mission critical environments.
−Removed: terms of the LOI, the Company and Airship AI would become a combined entity, with Airship AI’s existing equity holders rolling 100%
−Removed: of their equity into the combined public company.
−Removed: The proposed transaction values Airship AI at an enterprise value of $290 million.
−Removed: Company expects to announce additional details regarding the proposed business combination when a definitive merger agreement is executed.
−Removed: Class B Conversion
−Removed: Effective as of March 27, 2023, pursuant to the terms of the amended
−Removed: and restated memorandum and articles of association after the EGM, the Sponsor elected to convert each outstanding Class B ordinary share
−Removed: held by it on a one-for-one basis into Class A ordinary shares of the Company, with immediate effect.
−Removed: Results of Operations
−Removed: Our entire activity since inception through March
−Removed: 31, 2023 related to our formation, the preparation for the Initial Public Offering, and since the closing of the Initial Public Offering,
−Removed: the search for a prospective initial Business Combination.
−Removed: We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date.
−Removed: We will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial Business Combination.
−Removed: We will generate non-operating
−Removed: income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents.
−Removed: We expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public
−Removed: company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.
−Removed: For the three months ended March 31, 2023, we
−Removed: 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
−Removed: 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
−Removed: changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities.
−Removed: For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we
−Removed: 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
−Removed: noncash gain of $5,573,010 resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities, offset by $348,284 of losses from operations.
−Removed: Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern
−Removed: Consideration
−Removed: As of March 31, 2023, we had cash of $568,236.
−Removed: Until the consummation of the Public Offering, our only source of liquidity was an initial purchase of ordinary shares and private placement
−Removed: units by the Sponsor and loans from our Sponsor.
−Removed: Our liquidity needs prior to the consummation
−Removed: of the Initial Public Offering had been satisfied through a payment of $25,000 from the Sponsor to cover certain expenses on our behalf
−Removed: in exchange for the issuance of the Founder Shares (as defined below), a loan under a note agreement from our Sponsor of approximately
−Removed: $149,000 (the “Note”), and the net proceeds from the consummation of the Private Placement not held in the Trust Account.
+Added: registration statement for our initial public offering was declared effective on March 17, 2021.
+Added: On March 23, 2021, we consummated our
+Added: Initial Public Offering of 30,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the
+Added: Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $300.0 million, and incurring
+Added: offering costs of approximately $17.2 million, inclusive of approximately $10.5 million in deferred underwriting commissions.
+Added: 7, 2021, the underwriter exercised the over-allotment option in part and purchased an additional 2,369,251 Units (the “Over-Allotment
+Added: Units”), generating additional gross proceeds of $23,692,510 (such offering, including the exercise of the over-allotment, the
+Added: “Initial Public Offering”).
+Added: Simultaneously
+Added: with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, we consummated the private placement (“Private Placement”) of 1,030,000
+Added: Units (the “Private Placement Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating total gross proceeds of
+Added: $10.3 million.
+Added: the closing of the Initial Public Offering, sale of the Over-Allotment Units, and the Private Placement, $323.7 million ($10.00 per Unit)
+Added: of the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and certain of proceeds of the Private Placement were placed
+Added: in a trust account (“Trust Account”) with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee and invested in
+Added: United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity
+Added: of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act
+Added: which invest only in direct U.S.
+Added: government treasury obligations, as determined by us, until the earlier of:
+Added: (i) the completion of a
+Added: Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account to the shareholders.
+Added: However, to mitigate the risk of us being deemed
+Added: to have been operating as an unregistered investment company (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment
+Added: Company Act), on February 10, 2023, we instructed Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company to liquidate the U.S.
+Added: government treasury
+Added: obligations or money market funds held in the Trust Account and thereafter to hold all funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing
+Added: demand deposit account until the earlier of consummation of a Business Combination or liquidation.
+Added: we are unable to complete a Business Combination by the Extended Date (as defined below), we will (i) cease all operations except for
+Added: the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but no more than 10 business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding
+Added: Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest
+Added: earned (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public
+Added: Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish Public Shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive
+Added: further liquidation distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval
+Added: of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to its obligations under Cayman
+Added: Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
+Added: initially had until March 23, 2023 to consummate an initial business combination.
+Added: On March 16, 2023, we held an extraordinary general
+Added: meeting (the “EGM”).
+Added: In this meeting the shareholders approved amendments to our amended and restated memorandum and articles
+Added: of association to extend the date by which we must complete an initial business combination from March 23, 2023 to September 25, 2023
+Added: (the “Extension” and such date, the “Extended Date”) and to provide for the right of a holder of our Class B
+Added: Ordinary Shares to convert into Class A Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis prior to the closing of a Business Combination.
+Added: In connection
+Added: with the EGM, shareholders holding an aggregate of 30,006,034 shares of our Class A Ordinary Shares exercised their right to redeem their
+Added: shares for $10.20 per share of the funds held in our Trust Account, leaving approximately $24.1 million in the Trust Account after such
+Added: Subsequently, it was determined that the redemption value per share was approximately $10.22 per share, or an aggregate total
+Added: of $306,691,945 of the funds held in the Trust Account resulting in a secondary distribution to the redeeming shareholders of approximately
+Added: $0.02 per share, or an aggregate total of $584,958.
+Added: Non-Redemption
+Added: March 8, 2023, we entered into non-redemption agreements (collectively, the “Extension Non-Redemption Agreements”) with certain
+Added: of its existing shareholders (the “Non-Redeeming Shareholders”) holding Class A Ordinary Shares.
+Added: Pursuant to the Extension
+Added: Non-Redemption Agreements, each of the Non-Redeeming Shareholders agreed to (a) not redeem 1,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares held by
+Added: them on the date of the Extension Non-Redemption Agreements (the “Shares”) in connection with the vote to amend our amended
+Added: and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which we have to consummate an initial business combination
+Added: from March 23, 2023 to September 25, 2023 and (b) vote their Shares in favor of the Extension presented by us for approval by its shareholders.
+Added: In connection with the foregoing, we agreed to pay to each Non-Redeeming Shareholder $0.033 per Share in cash per month through the Extended
+Added: to the Merger Agreement (as defined below), we agreed to enter into Non-Redemption Agreements with certain investors pursuant to which
+Added: such investors will commit to hold or acquire, as applicable, and not to redeem an aggregate of $7 million of our Class A ordinary shares
+Added: in connection with the Merger (as defined below), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in these agreements.
+Added: August 1, 2023, we entered into a non-redemption agreement (“Non-Redemption Agreement”) with our Sponsor.
+Added: Pursuant to the
+Added: Non-Redemption Agreement, our Sponsor agreed to acquire from our shareholders $6 million in aggregate value of our Public Shares, either
+Added: in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions, at a price no higher than the redemption price per share payable to
+Added: public shareholders who exercise redemption rights with respect to their Public Shares, prior to the closing date of the Business Combination,
+Added: to waive its redemption rights and hold the Public Shares through the closing date of the Business Combination, and to abstain from voting
+Added: and not vote the Public Shares in favor of or against the Business Combination.
+Added: As consideration for the Non-Redemption Agreement, we
+Added: agreed to pay the Sponsor $0.033 per Public Share per month, which will begin accruing on the date that is three days after the date
+Added: of the Non-Redemption Agreement and terminate on the earlier of the closing date of the Business Combination, the termination of the
+Added: Merger Agreement, or the Outside Closing Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement).
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: on August 1, 2023, we entered into a Non-Redemption Agreement with one of the Non-Redeeming Shareholders holding Public Shares, pursuant
+Added: to which the Non-Redeeming Shareholder agreed not to redeem $1 million in aggregate value of Public Shares held by it on the date of
+Added: the Non-Redemption Agreement in connection with the Business Combination.
+Added: June 27, 2023, we entered into a merger agreement, by and among us, BYTE Merger Sub Inc, (“Merger Sub”), and Airship AI Holdings,
+Added: Inc., a Washington corporation (“Airship AI”) (as it may be amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Merger
+Added: Support Agreement
+Added: connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, we entered into a support agreement (the “Parent Support Agreement”)
+Added: with the Sponsor and Airship AI, pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to, among other things, vote all of its shares in favor of the
+Added: various proposals related to the Business Combination and the Merger Agreement and any other matters necessary or reasonably requested
+Added: by us for consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: The Sponsor has also agreed (a) to forfeit 1,000,000 of our Class A ordinary shares
+Added: owned by the Sponsor on the Closing Date and (b) to contribute 2,600,000 of our Class A ordinary shares owned by the Sponsor to secure
+Added: the Non-Redemption Agreements and/or the PIPE financing.
+Added: The Parent Support Agreement also provides that the Sponsor Shares will be subject
+Added: to a lock-up for a period of 180 days following the Closing.
+Added: Support Agreement
+Added: connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, we entered into a support agreement (the “Company Support Agreement”)
+Added: with the Airship AI and certain shareholders of the Airship AI.
+Added: as of March 27, 2023, pursuant to the terms of the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association after the EGM, the Sponsor
+Added: elected to convert each outstanding Class B ordinary share held by it on a one-for-one basis into Class A ordinary shares of the Company,
+Added: with immediate effect.
+Added: June 26, 2023, the Company issued one Class B ordinary share for no consideration to assist with administrative function.
+Added: of Operations
+Added: entire activity since inception through June 30, 2023 related to our formation, the preparation for the Initial Public Offering, and
+Added: since the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the search for a prospective initial Business Combination.
+Added: We have neither engaged
+Added: in any operations nor generated any revenues to date.
+Added: We will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial
+Added: Business Combination.
+Added: We will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents.
+Added: incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance),
+Added: as well as for due diligence expenses.
+Added: the three months ended June 30, 2023, we had net loss of approximately $1.8 million, which primarily consisted of approximately $1.9
+Added: million of losses from operations and a noncash loss of approximately $334,000 resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant
+Added: liabilities, offset by interest earned from investments held in the Trust Account of approximately $415,000 and interest income from
+Added: the bank account of approximately $6,000.
+Added: the six months ended June 30, 2023, we had net loss of approximately $657,000, which primarily consisted of approximately $2.5 million
+Added: of losses from operations and a noncash loss of approximately $1.5 million resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant
+Added: liabilities, offset by of interest earned from investments held in the Trust Account of approximately $3.4 million and interest income
+Added: from the bank account of approximately $15,000.
+Added: the three months ended June 30, 2022, we had net income of approximately $1.9 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of
+Added: approximately $1.8 million resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in
+Added: the Trust Account of approximately $424,000, partially offset by approximately $288,000 of general and administrative expenses, including
+Added: $30,000 of general and administrative expenses to related parties.
+Added: the six months ended June 30, 2022, we had net income of approximately $7.2 million, which primarily consisted of a noncash gain of approximately
+Added: $7.4 million resulting from changes in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities and income from investments held in the Trust Account
+Added: of approximately $455,000, partially offset by approximately $637,000 of general and administrative expenses, including $60,000 of general
+Added: and administrative expenses to related parties.
+Added: Capital Resources and Going Concern Consideration
+Added: of June 30, 2023, we had cash of $213,892.
+Added: liquidity needs prior to the consummation of the Initial Public Offering had been satisfied through a payment of $25,000 from the Sponsor
+Added: to cover certain expenses on our behalf in exchange for the issuance of the Founder Shares (as defined below), a loan under a note agreement
+Added: from our Sponsor of approximately $149,000 (the “Note”), and the net proceeds from the consummation of the Private Placement
+Added: not held in the Trust Account.
We fully repaid the Note on March 25, 2021.
−Removed: In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination,
−Removed: our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor, or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, provide us working
−Removed: capital loans.
+Added: In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection
+Added: with a Business Combination, our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor, or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated
+Added: to, provide us working capital loans.
To date, there were no amounts outstanding under any working capital loans.
−Removed: In connection with the Company’s assessment
−Removed: of going concern considerations in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards
−Removed: Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, “Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern,” management has determined
−Removed: that the mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a
−Removed: going concern.
−Removed: Management continues to seek to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period.
−Removed: No adjustments have been
−Removed: made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should the Company be required to liquidate after the Extended Date.
−Removed: The financial
−Removed: statements do not include any adjustment that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Contractual Obligations
−Removed: We do not have any long-term debt, capital lease
−Removed: obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than, an agreement to pay the Sponsor a monthly fee of $10,000
−Removed: for office space, utilities and secretarial, and administrative and support services.
−Removed: We began incurring these fees on March 23, 2021
−Removed: and will continue to incur these fees monthly until the earlier of the completion of the Business Combination and our liquidation.
−Removed: The underwriters are entitled to a deferred fee
−Removed: of $0.35 per Unit, or $11,329,238 in the aggregate.
−Removed: The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in
−Removed: the Trust Account solely in the event that we complete a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
−Removed: Critical Accounting Policies
−Removed: The preparation of financial statements and related
−Removed: disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates
−Removed: and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date
−Removed: of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported.
−Removed: Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.
+Added: connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, “Presentation of Financial
+Added: Statements - Going Concern,” management has determined that the liquidity condition and mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution
+Added: raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Management continues to seek to complete a
+Added: Business Combination within the Combination Period.
+Added: No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should
+Added: the Company be required to liquidate after the Extended Date.
+Added: The financial statements do not include any adjustment that might be necessary
+Added: if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than, an agreement
+Added: to pay Sagara Group, LLC, which is a company controlled by Mr.
+Added: Gloor, a monthly fee of $10,000 for office space, utilities and secretarial,
+Added: and administrative and support services.
+Added: We began incurring these fees on March 23, 2021 and will continue to incur these fees monthly
+Added: until the earlier of the completion of the Business Combination and our liquidation.
+Added: underwriters are entitled to a deferred fee of $0.35 per Unit, or $11,329,238 in the aggregate.
+Added: The deferred fee will become payable
+Added: to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that we complete a Business Combination, subject to
+Added: the terms of the underwriting agreement.
+Added: On May 30, 2023, the underwriters waived their entitlement to receive payment of the deferred
+Added: underwriting commissions of $11,329,238, that was to be paid under the terms of the underwriting agreement, in the event of closing of
+Added: a business combination with Airship AI.
+Added: Accounting Policies
+Added: preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
+Added: States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure
+Added: of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported.
+Added: results could materially differ from those estimates.
We have identified the following critical accounting policy:
−Removed: Derivative Warrant Liabilities
−Removed: We do not use derivative instruments to hedge
−Removed: exposures to cash flow, market, or foreign currency risks.
−Removed: We evaluate all of our financial instruments, including issued stock purchase
−Removed: warrants and forward purchase agreements, to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded
−Removed: derivatives, pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity” (“ASC 480”) and FASB ASC
−Removed: Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”).
−Removed: The classification of derivative instruments, including whether
−Removed: such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is re-assessed at the end of each reporting period.
−Removed: The warrants issued in connection with the Initial
−Removed: Public Offering and the Private Placement Warrants are recognized as derivative liabilities in accordance with ASC 815.
−Removed: Accordingly, we
−Removed: recognize the warrant instruments as liabilities at fair value and adjusts the instruments to fair value at each reporting period.
−Removed: liabilities are subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date until exercised, and any change in fair value is recognized in the
−Removed: Company’s statements of operations.
−Removed: The initial estimated fair value of the warrants was measured using a Monte Carlo simulation.
−Removed: The subsequent estimated fair value of the Public Warrants is based on the listed price in an active market for such warrants while the
−Removed: fair value of the Private Placement Warrants continues to be measured using a Monte Carlo simulation.
−Removed: Class A ordinary shares subject to possible
−Removed: We account for our Class A ordinary shares subject
−Removed: to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480.
−Removed: Class A ordinary shares subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is
−Removed: classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value.
−Removed: Conditionally redeemable Class A ordinary shares (including Class
−Removed: ordinary shares that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence
−Removed: of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity.
−Removed: At all other times, Class A ordinary
−Removed: shares are classified as shareholders’ equity.
−Removed: The Company’s Public Shares feature certain redemption rights that are considered
−Removed: to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events.
−Removed: Accordingly, as of March 31, 2023
−Removed: and December 31, 2022, 2,363,217 and 32,369,251 Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value
−Removed: as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ equity section of our balance sheet.
−Removed: Effective with the closing of the Public Offering
−Removed: (including sale of the Over-Allotment Units), we recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption amount, which resulted
−Removed: in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit.
−Removed: Net Income per ordinary share
−Removed: We have two classes of shares, which are referred to as Class A ordinary
−Removed: shares subject to possible redemption and non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares.
−Removed: Income and losses are shared
−Removed: pro rata between the two classes of shares.
−Removed: Net income per ordinary share is calculated by dividing the net income by the weighted average
−Removed: of ordinary shares outstanding for the respective period.
−Removed: The calculation of diluted net income per ordinary
−Removed: shares does not consider the effect of the warrants issued in connection with the Public Offering (including sale of the Over-Allotment
−Removed: Units) and the Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 16,699,626 ordinary shares in the calculation of diluted income per share,
−Removed: because their exercise is contingent upon future events and their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method.
−Removed: 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,
−Removed: Accretion associated with the redeemable Class A ordinary shares is excluded from net income per share as the redemption value approximates
−Removed: Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: In June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards
−Removed: Update (“ASU”) 2016-13 – Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial
−Removed: Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”).
−Removed: This update requires financial assets measured at amortized cost basis to be presented at the
−Removed: net amount expected to be collected.
−Removed: The measurement of expected credit losses is based on relevant information about past events, including
−Removed: historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount.
−Removed: Since June 2016, the FASB issued clarifying updates to the new standard including changing the effective date for smaller reporting companies.
−Removed: The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early
−Removed: adoption permitted.
+Added: Warrant Liabilities
+Added: do not use derivative instruments to hedge exposures to cash flow, market, or foreign currency risks.
+Added: We evaluate all of our financial
+Added: instruments, including issued stock purchase warrants and forward purchase agreements, to determine if such instruments are derivatives
+Added: or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives, pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity”
+Added: (“ASC 480”) and FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”).
+Added: The classification of
+Added: derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is re-assessed at the end
+Added: of each reporting period.
+Added: warrants issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement Warrants are recognized as derivative liabilities
+Added: in accordance with ASC 815.
+Added: Accordingly, we recognize the warrant instruments as liabilities at fair value and adjusts the instruments
+Added: to fair value at each reporting period.
+Added: The liabilities are subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date until exercised, and
+Added: any change in fair value is recognized in the Company’s statements of operations.
+Added: The initial estimated fair value of the warrants
+Added: was measured using a Monte Carlo simulation.
+Added: The subsequent estimated fair value of the Public Warrants is based on the listed price
+Added: in an active market for such warrants while the fair value of the Private Placement Warrants continues to be measured using a Monte Carlo
+Added: A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption
+Added: account for our Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480.
+Added: Class A ordinary shares
+Added: subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value.
+Added: Conditionally redeemable
+Added: Class A ordinary shares (including Class ordinary shares that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder
+Added: or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary
+Added: At all other times, Class A ordinary shares are classified as shareholders’ equity.
+Added: The Company’s Public Shares feature
+Added: certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain
+Added: future events.
+Added: Accordingly, as of June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, 2,363,217 and 32,369,251 Class A ordinary shares subject to possible
+Added: redemption are presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ equity section of our balance sheet.
+Added: with the closing of the Public Offering (including sale of the Over-Allotment Units), we recognized the accretion from initial book value
+Added: to redemption amount, which resulted in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit.
+Added: (Loss) Income per ordinary share
+Added: have two classes of shares, which are referred to as Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption and non-redeemable Class
+Added: A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares.
+Added: Income and losses are shared pro rata between the two classes of shares.
+Added: Net (loss) income
+Added: per ordinary share is calculated by dividing the net (loss) income by the weighted average of ordinary shares outstanding for the respective
+Added: calculation of diluted net (loss) income per ordinary shares does not consider the effect of the warrants issued in connection with the
+Added: Public Offering (including sale of the Over-Allotment Units) and the Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 16,699,626 ordinary
+Added: shares in the calculation of diluted (loss) income per share, because their exercise is contingent upon future events and their inclusion
+Added: would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method.
+Added: As a result, diluted net (loss) income per share is the same as basic net (loss)
+Added: income per share for the period ended June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
+Added: Accretion associated with the redeemable Class A ordinary
+Added: shares is excluded from net (loss) income per share as the redemption value approximates fair value.
+Added: Accounting Standards
+Added: June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13 – Financial Instruments – Credit Losses
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”).
+Added: This update requires financial assets
+Added: measured at amortized cost basis to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected.
+Added: The measurement of expected credit losses
+Added: is based on relevant information about past events, including historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable
+Added: forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount.
+Added: Since June 2016, the FASB issued clarifying updates to the new standard
+Added: including changing the effective date for smaller reporting companies.
+Added: The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December
+Added: 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted.
The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 on January 1,
−Removed: The adoption of ASU 2016-13 did not an impact on its financial
−Removed: Management does not believe that any other recently
−Removed: issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.
−Removed: Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual
−Removed: As of March 31, 2023, we did not have any off-balance
−Removed: 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 other
−Removed: things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies.
−Removed: We qualify as an “emerging growth company” and
−Removed: under the JOBS Act are allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not publicly
−Removed: traded) companies.
−Removed: We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with
−Removed: new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-emerging growth companies.
−Removed: As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements as
−Removed: of public company effective dates.
−Removed: Additionally, we are in the process of evaluating
−Removed: the benefits of relying on the other reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act.
−Removed: Subject to certain conditions set forth
−Removed: 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 to
−Removed: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public
−Removed: companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by
−Removed: the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about
−Removed: the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis) and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation related items
−Removed: such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the CEO’s compensation to median employee
−Removed: compensation.
−Removed: These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of our Initial Public Offering or until
−Removed: we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.
−Removed: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures
−Removed: About Market Risk
−Removed: We are a smaller reporting company as defined
−Removed: by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise required under this item.
+Added: The adoption of ASU 2016-13 did not have an impact on its financial statements.
+Added: does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material
+Added: effect on our financial statements.
+Added: Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations
+Added: of June 30, 2023, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have
+Added: any commitments or contractual obligations.
+Added: JOBS Act contains provisions that, among other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies.
+Added: as an “emerging growth company” and under the JOBS Act are allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements
+Added: based on the effective date for private (not publicly traded) companies.
+Added: We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting
+Added: standards, and as a result, we may not comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such
+Added: standards is required for non-emerging growth companies.
+Added: As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that
+Added: comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: we are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on the other reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act.
+Added: to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if, as an “emerging growth company,” we choose to rely on such exemptions
+Added: we may not be required to, among other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over
+Added: financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required
+Added: of non-emerging growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement
+Added: that may be adopted by the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional
+Added: information about the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis) and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation
+Added: related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the CEO’s compensation
+Added: to median employee compensation.
+Added: These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of our Initial Public
+Added: Offering or until we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.
+Added: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
+Added: are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise
+Added: required under this item.
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