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Latest SPAC News: Lidar maker Innoviz wins $4 billion Volkswagen contract
Israeli lidar maker Innoviz wins $4 billion Volkswagen contract for millions of sensors
Israeli lidar maker Innoviz (NASDAQ:INVZ) announced Tuesday it has won a contract to supply lidar units and related software for autonomous driving to a unit of Volkswagen, in a deal worth $4 billion in sales over eight years.
Under the deal, Volkswagen will incorporate Innoviz’s latest automotive lidar unit and its proprietary perception software into vehicles across its portfolio.
Innoviz, which went public via a merger with Collective Growth Corp. in late 2020, had previously announced the deal but had not revealed its client. The lidar maker said in May that it had won a deal with “one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world” to “become its direct lidar supplier across multiple brands.”
READTerms Tracker for the Week Ending September 6, 2024 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. It was a short holiday week and while it was light on filings, SPACs did manage to price two IPOs. That means 2024 has now...
Compass Digital (NASDAQ:CDAQ) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with renewable energy firm EEW at a pro forma enterprise value of $386 million. London-based EEW is a solar, hydrogen and energy storage project developer with 1.4 GW of solar projects sold to date in Australia, the UK, Spain, and Sweden. The combined company...
Evergreen (NASDAQ:EVGR) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with enterprise software firm Forekast at a pre-money enterprise value of $105 million. The company provides data analytics and customer engagement tools backed by some degree of AI automation to improve efficiencies for its business clients. The combined company is expected to trade on the...
At the SPAC of Dawn The auto-reply messages are off. SPACs are definitively back from vacation and in the thick of it. Two new SPACs are set to debut in trading today in Vine Hill (NASDAQ:VCICU) and Andretti II (NASDAQ:POLEU) and two SPACs have also landed their search on new targets, which could pull a...
Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “VCICU”, Friday, September 6, 2024. The new SPAC intends to focus its search on a target business in the industrial and services industries, where it believes the expertise...