NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION, BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND GOING CONCERN
Iron Spark I Inc. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on January 22, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”). The Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a Business Combination. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from January 22, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2022 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”), which is described below, and since the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the search for a prospective initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of a Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering.
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on June 8, 2021. On June 11, 2021, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 15,000,000 shares of Class A common stock (the “Public Shares”). The Shares were sold at a price of $10.00 per Public Share, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $150,000,000, which is discussed in Note 4.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 1,090,000 shares (the “Private Placement Shares”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Share in a private placement to Iron Spark I LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $10,900,000, which is described in Note 5.
The Company granted the underwriters in the Initial Public Offering (the “Underwriters”) a 45-day option to purchase up to 2,250,000 additional Shares to cover over-allotments, if any. On June 16, 2021, the Underwriters partially exercised the over-allotment option and purchased an additional 1,680,000 shares (the “Over-Allotment Shares”), generating gross proceeds of $16,800,000. The remaining 570,000 shares were not exercised by the underwriter and expired on July 26, 2021.
Simultaneously with the closing of the exercise of the over-allotment option, the Company consummated the sale of 100,800 shares (the “Over-Allotment Private Placement Shares”) at a purchase price of $10.00 per share in a private placement to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $1,008,000.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering on June 11, 2021, an amount of $173,472,000 ($10.40 per Public Share) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Public Shares in the Initial Public Offering, the sale of the Private Placement Shares, the sale of the Over-Allotment Shares, and the exercise of the over-allotment option was placed in a U.S.-based trust account (the “Trust Account”), and were invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with maturities of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds held in the Trust Account, as described below.
Transaction costs related to the issuances described above amounted to $9,585,489, consisting of $3,336,000 of cash underwriting fees, $5,838,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $411,489 of other costs. In addition, at March 31, 2022, $286,895 of cash was held outside of the Trust Account and is available for working capital purposes.