Proptech VC Fifth Wall Halts SPAC Amid Stock Market Woes

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Proptech-targeted venture money business Fifth Wall has pulled the plug on its $150 million approach to just take a further genuine estate tech company general public via a special goal acquisition organization, or SPAC, a submitting with the SEC exposed on Friday.

The Marina del Rey-based firm unveiled its next SPAC last March, with designs on listing the blank-check out company on the Nasdaq under the ticker FWAB and issuing 15 million shares at $10 apiece. Fifth Wall tapped Wall Road banking institutions Goldman Sachs, Citi and Deutsche Bank as joint underwriters on the offer, according to IPO investigation firm Renaissance Money.

Nevertheless Fifth Wall has now withdrawn the SPAC’s registration, putting an conclude to those people options. Though the venture capital business did not answer to requests for remark on the move, startups that have absent general public via SPAC mergers have experienced a hard time on the current market as of late—though that hasn’t slowed down SPAC sponsors from issuing more blank-examine businesses. Meanwhile, the broader inventory market carries on to teeter on correction territory, with the stocks more roiled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

With its to start with SPAC, Fifth Wall took Arizona-based mostly household automation company SmartRent community past August, in a offer that lifted $450 million for the startup. SmartRent’s stock subsequently rose north of $14 for every share in early September, but has considering the fact that shed far more than fifty percent of its benefit and shut trading Monday at $6.45 for every share—mirroring the wider downturn in the SPAC current market.

Fifth Wall also launched a third SPAC that lifted $275 million on likely community final May well. That blank-test entity presently trades on the Nasdaq beneath the ticker FWAC but has yet to merge with a different company, a la SmartRent.

The enterprise agency is also elevating cash for a late-phase local weather tech fund, for each an additional new SEC submitting. Fifth Wall did not disclose how substantially it intends to elevate for the new fund. It has secured at minimum $140 million for a identical fund focused on early-stage local weather tech startups, as dot.LA described last calendar year.

Before this thirty day period, Fifth Wall introduced that it experienced lifted approximately $159 million for its 1st European fund. (Disclosure: Fifth Wall co-founder and controlling spouse Brendan Wallace is an investor in dot.LA.)