Innventure, Inc. (Nasdaq: INV) and Learn CW Investment Corporation
(NASDAQ: LCW) (“Learn CW”), a special purpose acquisition company,
today announced the completion of their previously announced
business combination ("Business Combination”). The Business
Combination was approved at an extraordinary general meeting of
Learn CW’s shareholders on September 30, 2024. Upon the completion
of the Business Combination, the combined company changed its name
to Innventure, Inc. and its common stock is expected to begin
trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the new ticker symbol
“INV” beginning on October 3, 2024.
In connection with the closing of the Business Combination,
Innventure is expected to ring the Closing Bell at 4 p.m. EST on
October 3, 2024 at the Nasdaq Marketsite.
“We’re thrilled to reach this milestone, which supports our goal
to found, fund and operate companies that offer transformative
technology solutions,” said Bill Haskell, CEO of Innventure. “We
believe becoming a public company creates a unique opportunity to
offer investors access to technologies with early-stage economics
and late-stage risk. I’m grateful to our partners at Learn CW for
recognizing the value of our unique business model and supporting
our vision to be a conglomerate of majority-owned companies. I’d
also like to thank our multinational corporation partners for their
engagement and collaboration, and the trust they put in us to
commercialize their breakthrough technologies. We look forward to
growing Innventure and maximizing shareholder value over the long
term.”
Rob Hutter, CEO of Learn CW, added, “As someone who has spent my
career in venture creation, I am thrilled to help bring Innventure
to the public market. I believe this public listing will further
accelerate Innventure’s credibility and standing as the innovation
launch partner of choice for the world’s largest companies, giving
Innventure, in my opinion, the pick of the best opportunities
for years to come and enabling investors to share in
a remarkable stream of innovative companies that could
compound over time and that are available few other
places.”
Innventure uses operational expertise to take what it believes
to be breakthrough technologies sourced from multinational
corporations to market. In the process, Innventure builds and
scales companies around these technologies using a systematic,
quantitative and repeatable analysis. Innventure has launched three
such companies since its inception: PureCycle Technologies, Inc.,
AeroFlexx and Accelsius. PureCycle became a publicly traded company
in 2021.
AdvisorsJones Day acted as legal advisor to
Innventure, and Sidley Austin LLP acted as legal advisor to Learn
CW. The Maples Group acted as Cayman legal advisor to Learn CW.
About InnventureInnventure founds, funds, and
operates companies with a focus on transformative, sustainable
technology solutions acquired or licensed from multinational
corporations. As owner-operators, Innventure takes what it believes
to be breakthrough technologies from early evaluation to scaled
commercialization utilizing an approach designed to help mitigate
risk as it builds disruptive companies it believes have the
potential to achieve a target enterprise value of at least $1
billion. Innventure defines ‘‘disruptive’’ as innovations that have
the ability to significantly change the way businesses, industries,
markets and/or consumers operate.
About Learn CW Investment CorporationLearn CW
Investment Corporation (“Learn CW”) was formed for the purpose of
effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share
purchase, reorganization or similar Business Combination with one
or more businesses. Learn CW is sponsored by CWAM LC Sponsor LLC,
an affiliate of Learn Capital, LLC (“Learn Capital”) and
Commonwealth Asset Management. Learn Capital is a leading venture
capital firm focused on early- and mid-stage investments in the
$5.4 trillion global education sector. Learn Capital was founded in
2008 by Rob Hutter and Greg Mauro, who formerly managed an
affiliate of Founders Fund. The firm possesses decades of founding,
operating, and investing experience in the education, consumer,
hard tech, and enterprise technology sectors. Commonwealth Asset
Management is a Los Angeles-based asset management platform founded
in June 2019 and led by Adam Fisher, who is the former Head of
Global Macro and Real Estate at Soros Fund Management LLC and the
former founder and Chief Investment Officer of Commonwealth
Opportunity Capital, GP LLC.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements This press release contains forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding the parties or
the parties’ respective management team’s expectations, hopes,
beliefs, intentions, plans, prospects or strategies regarding the
future, including the anticipated benefits of the Business
Combination, including revenue growth and financial performance,
product expansion and services, and the financial condition,
results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of Innventure
and/or Learn CW, including, in all cases, statements for the period
following the consummation of the Business Combination. Any
statements contained herein that are not statements of historical
fact are forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements
that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of
future events or circumstances, including any underlying
assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are typically identified by words such as “anticipate,”
“believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,”
“intend,” “may,” “might,” “outlook,” “plan,” “possible,”
“potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” and
other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words
does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are
based on the current expectations and beliefs of the management of
Learn CW and Innventure in light of their respective experience and
their perception of historical trends, current conditions and
expected future developments and their potential effects on Learn
CW and Innventure as well as other factors they believe are
appropriate in the circumstances. There can be no assurance that
future developments affecting Learn CW or Innventure will be those
that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve
a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the
control of the parties) or other assumptions that may cause actual
results or performance to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including
those discussed and identified in the public filings made or to be
made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
by Learn CW, including in the final prospectus relating to Learn
CW’s initial public offering, which was filed with the SEC on
October 12, 2021 under the heading “Risk Factors,” or made or to be
made by Learn SPAC Holdco, Inc., including in the registration
statement on Form S-4, which was filed in connection with the
Business Combination and has been declared effective by the SEC,
and the definitive proxy statement/consent solicitation
statement/prospectus relating to the Business Combination which was
mailed to the Learn CW shareholders and sent to the unitholders of
Innventure LLC. These risks and uncertainties include: expectations
regarding Innventure’s strategies and future financial performance,
including its future business plans, expansion and acquisition
plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and
competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating
expenses, product and service acceptance, market trends, liquidity,
cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and Innventure’s
ability to invest in growth initiatives; the implementation, market
acceptance and success of Innventure’s business model and growth
strategy; Innventure’s future capital requirements and sources and
uses of cash; that Innventure will have sufficient capital upon the
approval of the Business Combination to operate as anticipated;
Innventure’s ability to obtain funding for its operations and
future growth; developments and projections relating to
Innventure’s competitors and industry; the outcome of any legal
proceedings that may be instituted against Learn SPAC Holdco, Inc.,
Learn CW or Innventure following the closing of the Business
Combination; the risk that the announcement and consummation of the
proposed Business Combination disrupts Innventure’s current plans;
the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business
Combination; unexpected costs related to the proposed Business
Combination; limited liquidity and trading of Learn CW’s
securities; geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or
regulations; the possibility that Learn CW and/or Innventure may be
adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive
factors; the potential characterization of Innventure as an
investment company subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940;
and operational risk. Should one or more of these risks or
uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove
incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those
projected in these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof,
based on information available to Learn CW and Innventure as of the
date hereof, and Learn CW and Innventure assume no obligation to
update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required
under applicable law.
Media Contact: Laurie Steinberg, Solebury
Strategic Communications press@innventure.com
Investor Relations Contact: Sloan Bohlen,
Solebury Strategic Communications
investorrelations@innventure.com
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