RRE Ventures Acquisition Corp. is a SPAC — a blank check company with no operations, revenue, or identified acquisition target. Its sole purpose is to raise capital through an IPO and use those proceeds to acquire an operating business within 24 months. The company raised $250M by selling 25M units at $10.00 each on Nasdaq, with substantially all proceeds held in trust, invested in short-term U.S. government obligations, until a deal closes or the SPAC liquidates. The target universe is broad, but management intends to focus on companies with enterprise values of roughly $800M to $4B in technology, defense and space, robotics, quantum computing, AI, energy, and power. The sponsor, RRE Sponsor, LLC, is controlled by Philip Kassin, Jeffrey Douglas Epstein, and an affiliate of Stuart Ellman, co-founder of RRE Ventures — a VC firm with roughly $2.25B in AUM and over 400 portfolio companies, including Venmo, Palantir, and Datadog. Public shareholders receive one Class A share and one-third of a warrant per unit, and have the right to redeem shares at approximately $10.00 if they dislike a proposed deal or if no deal is completed. The sponsor paid $25,000 for founder shares representing 25% of post-IPO shares outstanding, creating asymmetric upside for the sponsor relative to public shareholders. If no deal closes within the 24-month window, the SPAC liquidates and trust proceeds are returned to public shareholders.
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