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PitchBook Analyst Note: SPACs at VC’s Gate

May 11, 2026

SPACs return after a 75% deSPAC index decline. The 2024 SEC overhaul tightened the rules, but with 25% of unicorns stalled since 2022, whether discipline follows structure remains the open question.

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VC

SPAC market shows signs of life with uptick in hot sector companies inking deals

April 10, 2026

A cluster of SPAC mergers in quantum computing and AI infrastructure emphasizes the mechanism’s benefits for certain companies.

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Analyst Note

PitchBook Analyst Note: When Access to VC Becomes a Liability

March 24, 2026

Venture secondaries offer access to top private companies—but fraud, opacity, and weak oversight threaten to make them the next cautionary tale in private markets.

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Weekend Analysis

SPACs are back, and they’re coming for deep tech

March 20, 2026

There’s no shortage of VC money flowing into the technology, but to scale, companies are turning to the public markets—and the blank-check vehicles that access them.

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SPAC

Quantum startup Pasqal to go public via SPAC at $2B valuation

March 5, 2026

Blank-check companies have become a more popular route to the public markets for quantum groups.

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Venture Capital

‘SPAC King’ Chamath Palihapitiya is back with a new one

August 18, 2025

The American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. will focus on energy, AI, decentralized finance and defense.

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PitchBook Private Capital Indexes

PitchBook Indexes

February 20, 2025

Combining PitchBook’s expertise in private markets with Morningstar’s public equity data, we have constructed multiple indexes that track private to public company performance.

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SPAC

Cazoo hits the end of the road in the latest SPAC wreckage

May 10, 2024

Just three years after a blockbuster SPAC merger, used car dealer Cazoo is facing insolvency.

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Regulation

SEC votes to ramp up SPAC regulation

January 24, 2024

An SEC vote to increase SPAC-related disclosures spurs debate over the future of blank-check companies.

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PE Exits

Apollo SPAC liquidates in continued exit freeze

November 13, 2023

Apollo Global Management’s decision to liquidate and dissolve a SPAC is the latest byproduct of a frozen exit environment and declining valuations.

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SPACs face liquidation as deal deadlines loom

February 22, 2023

Two years after the SPAC peak, many blank-check companies are facing a make-or-break year for finding acquisitions.

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Podcast

On the podcast: A new life for downside protection

October 31, 2022

G Squared’s Larry Aschebrook joins the podcast to discuss venture investing as the markets turn south.

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Venture Capital

SPAC Market Update

October 25, 2022

This analyst note posits that the dropping activity levels in Q3 may have sounded the death knell of the SPAC renaissance.

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Weekend Analysis

It’s not just Twitter—deal regret is suddenly everywhere

July 14, 2022

Elon Musk’s imperiled deal for Twitter is emblematic of this moment. In fact, of a moment in every business cycle when euphoria gives way to regret and dealmakers everywhere scramble for an escape hatch.

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Mobility Tech

Nearly every mobility tech SPAC is trading below its IPO price

June 16, 2022

After a wipeout of tech stocks, mobility tech SPACs are worth about $100 billion less than their blank-check deals implied.

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SPAC

Scores of newly public companies worth less than they raised from VCs

June 15, 2022

The IPO and SPAC boom of recent years was a once-in-a-decade opportunity for investors in tech startups to cash out.

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United Kingdom

London weighs scrapping two-segment listing regime to woo tech companies

May 25, 2022

The UK’s finance watchdog could replace the London Stock Exchange’s two-segment listing regime in the country’s latest maneuver to lure more tech companies and startups.

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Private Equity

PitchBook Analyst Note: SPAC Update and Performance

April 5, 2022

Our Q1 SPAC Update and Performance analyst note tracks current SPAC market activity and introduces an index to track public performance of deSPAC combinations after the mergers have been completed.

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