SoftBank SPAC in talks about $2bn merger with location start-up Mapbox

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SoftBank SPAC in talks about $2bn merger with location start-up Mapbox

Sky News2021-04-23

A New York-listed blank cheque company set up by SoftBank is in merger talks with Washington-based Mapbox, Sky News learns. SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son A ‘blank cheque’ company set up by ...

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Jia jia
·2021-04-25
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junkow
·2021-04-25
?mapbox
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cjng85
·2021-04-25
Good
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Kah
·2021-04-25
Good buy?
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UNCLEUNCLE
·2021-04-25
I see
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Trevina
·2021-04-25
spac-taculaf spac?
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IamBolt
·2021-04-25
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  Pls reply
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Hartanto
·2021-04-25
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Hartanto
·2021-04-25
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Tslverde
·2021-04-25
Merger is good
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MillionareManifesting
·2021-04-25
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Steventeo
·2021-04-25
Please ?
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CL777
·2021-04-25
SPAC again! Softbank is turning into a stock investment company.
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S土豪熊貓G
·2021-04-25
Pls comments and likeS. Thanks!
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- LeeWan:
  Ok
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- ISSEY1413:
  ok. do counter reply here too
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Porky9696
·2021-04-25
Latest
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KinKat
·2021-04-25
Woah... That shouldn't be allowed as they hv vested interest[疑問]
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·2021-04-25
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  Done
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Patjaslyn
·2021-04-25
Interesting
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  spac heated up again.
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Ivanhojh
·2021-04-25
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·2021-04-25
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class=\"title\">\nSoftBank SPAC in talks about $2bn merger with location start-up Mapbox\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-23 23:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://news.sky.com/story/softbank-spac-in-talks-about-2bn-merger-with-location-start-up-mapbox-12284784><strong>Sky News</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>A New York-listed blank cheque company set up by SoftBank is in merger talks with Washington-based Mapbox, Sky News learns.\nSoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son\nA ‘blank cheque’ company set up by ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://news.sky.com/story/softbank-spac-in-talks-about-2bn-merger-with-location-start-up-mapbox-12284784\">Web 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months.\nA US banking source said on Friday that the discussions between MapBox and SVF Investment Corp. 3 were at an advanced stage, but cautioned that a definitive transaction could still fall apart.\nInvestment banks including Cantor Fitzgerald, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and UBS are all understood to be involved in the deal.\nAlthough Mapbox would be far from unusual in choosing a SPAC to launch its tenure as a publicly traded company, the transaction would be unusual in that SoftBank is already a shareholder in the company through its vast Vision Fund.\nMapbox, which was founded in 2010, announced in 2017 that SoftBank had led a $164m Series C funding round without disclosing its valuation.\nIt was unclear on Friday how much new capital the merger would involve through a component of the deal known as a PIPE - private investment in public 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