PROPOSED BUSINESS
Introduction
We are a blank check company newly incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an initial business combination with us. While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business industry or sector, we intend to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify, acquire and manage a business in the Financial Technology (or “FinTech”) sector that can benefit from our differentiated and proprietary deal flow, leading brand name and global network. We believe our management team is well suited to identify opportunities that have the potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders.
Our sponsor is an affiliate of Green Visor Capital. Given Green Visor Capital’s reach and experience, and the our team’s investment, operational, diligence and capital raising expertise, we believe we are well-equipped to effect a business combination with an attractive target and to position it for long-term success in the public markets.
Green Visor Capital
Based in San Francisco, our sponsor is Green Visor Capital (“Green Visor Capital”) a venture capital firm that invests in, and works with, socially responsible entrepreneurial management teams that use innovative technology to solve substantive problems in financial services. Green Visor Capital, which manages three venture capital funds and a number of special purpose vehicles, focuses primarily on FinTech with the core investment thesis that technological advances, regulatory changes, and changing consumer sentiments, especially among younger generations, have unleashed a wave of disruptive forces that will fundamentally reshape the competitive order of the financial services industry in the coming years. Green Visor Capital launched operations in 2013 and its members include, Joe Saunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa Inc., Sam Wen, a founding team member of Square Inc., Lou Forster, formerly a Senior Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management and Chairman of Cerberus Asia Pacific Advisors, and Mike Walsh, a long-time public and private investment professional. Green Visor Capital’s Founder and Managing Partner is Simon Yoo, a long-time financial services professional. Collectively, the members of Green Visor Capital have decades of operating and investing experience across the financial services and technology industries. Green Visor’s core investment team has been working together since Green Visor Capital’s launch in 2013.
Green Visor Capital has invested in forty portfolio companies that run the spectrum of FinTech including but not limited to digitization of payments and e-commerce platforms; technology-enabled lending; business automation; PropTech (i.e., commercial real estate technology solutions); digital assets and smart contracts; public and private market data services; capital markets trading and infrastructure; and compliance and security solutions. Notable portfolio companies include: Flutterwave, Cloud Lending Solutions (acquired by Q2 Holdings), DataFox (acquired by Oracle), CrowdStreet, DharmaLabs, FiscalNote, Negotiatus, Notabene, Nowsta, OneChronos, Polygon.io, Proof Trading, Simpl, ThinkNum, and WeFunder. Green Visor Capital’s portfolio companies have attracted in total over two billion dollars in financing from third parties, including investments from Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, S&P Global, Google, Salesforce, FIS, Goldman Sachs, ABN Amro, Coinbase, Slack, Tiger Global, Avenir Ventures, GreyCroft Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, NEA, DST Global, Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Initialized Capital, among others.
Green Visor FinTAC I is focused on effecting an initial business combination in FinTech with the support of Green Visor Capital. We believe that we are living in a time of unprecedented advances in technology, the implementation of which has disrupted incumbents across a range of