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Business services-focused SPAC Navigation Capital Acquisition IX files for a $150 million IPO

June 28, 2021

Navigation Capital Acquisition IX, a blank check company formed by Navigation Capital targeting business services, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering.

The Atlanta, GA-based company plans to raise $150 million by offering 15 million units at $10 per unit. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one-third of a warrant, exercisable at $11.50. At the proposed deal size, the company would command a market value of $188 million. 

The company is led by CEO and Director Vicki Palmer, President of The Palmer Group, CFO Matthew Phelan, a VP at Navigation Partners, and Chairman David Panton, co-founder and Managing Partner of Navigation Partners. The company aims to leverage management's experience to target businesses in the business and distribution services sectors that provide a platform for add-on acquisitions. 

Navigation Capital is also behind three other SPACs that filed concurrently with Navigation Capital Acquisition IX (NCAU.RC, NCAUB.RC, and NCAUC.RC). The firm has been active in the SPAC space, sponsoring multiple blank check companies, including Pensare Acquisition, which completed its acquisition of Computex Technology Solutions in April 2020 to form American Virtual Cloud Technologies (AVCT).

The company was founded in 2021 and plans list on the NYSE, but has not yet selected a symbol (RC ticker: NCAUD.RC). Wells Fargo Securities and Mizuho Investors are the joint bookrunners on the deal.