Banzai International, Inc.PARA
Cash in trust
$35.6M
$35,559,672
Trust per share
$11.21
Redemption value
IPO
Dec 2020
$230M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
434
Latest Oct 21, 2026
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- Dec 8, 2022
- Closed
- Dec 21, 2023
Overview
Banzai International, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001826011. It completed its initial public offering in Dec 2020, raising $230M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker PARA, warrants under PARAW on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Banzai International. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Banzai International, Inc. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $11.21 per public share, 12.1% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.
434 filings in all. 18 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 44.
News on Banzai International, Inc.
Last 90 days- Ascendiant Capital Maintains Buy on Banzai International, Lowers Price Target to $24Neutral
Benzinga · 1mo ago
News sentiment
NeutralAcross 1 recent story, weighted towards the newest. Scored by our own headline classifier using finance- and SPAC-specific terms. It reads what a story is about, not what the shares are worth.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001437749-26-032835
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001493152-26-045785
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 3.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001493152-26-045262
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001493152-26-045031
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001493152-26-044891
- 8-K/A
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001493152-26-044168
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001493152-26-042422
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001493152-26-041595
- SCHEDULE 13D/A
SCHEDULE 13D/A filing
Accession 0001753926-26-001551
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001911119-26-000003
- 424B3
Prospectus supplement
Accession 0001193125-26-352588
- 424B3
Prospectus supplement
Accession 0001193125-26-352584
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-26-352362
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001493152-26-037599
- 424B5
424B5
Accession 0001493152-26-037107
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-002560
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000908834-26-000373
- 424B5
424B5
Accession 0001493152-26-034959
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-002462
- S-1/A
S-1/A
Accession 0001493152-26-033806
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001493152-26-033423
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Regulation FD disclosure
Items 1.01, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-26-303412
- 424B5
424B5
Accession 0001493152-26-033086
- 424B5
424B5
Accession 0001493152-26-032922
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Completion of an acquisition; Regulation FD disclosure
Items 1.01, 2.01, 2.03, 3.02, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-26-297663
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001911119-26-000002
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001493152-26-027350
- 424B3
Prospectus supplement
Accession 0001193125-26-228941
- 8-K/A
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-26-227353
- 424B3
Prospectus supplement
Accession 0001193125-26-227182
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Banzai International, Inc.: questions answered
What is Banzai International, Inc. (PARA)?
Banzai International, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001826011. It completed its initial public offering in Dec 2020, raising $230M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker PARA, warrants under PARAW on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Banzai International. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
How much does Banzai International, Inc. hold in trust?
Approximately $35,559,672, or about $11.21 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Banzai International, Inc. complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Banzai International, Inc. does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Banzai International, Inc., and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $11.21 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
What tickers does Banzai International, Inc. trade under?
Class A shares trade as PARA on Nasdaq, and the warrants as PARAW. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Banzai International, Inc.?
No, and the gap between them is the whole trade. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure of $11.21, being what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at: most recently $0.51, a spread to the redemption value. Quotes on this site are delayed and indicative; confirm on your own venue before trading.
Who sponsors Banzai International, Inc., and what is their track record?
Banzai International is the sponsor entity, part of the Banzai International franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Is Banzai International, Inc. tradeable, and where?
Yes. PARA returned a live quote of $0.51 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.
Is Banzai International, Inc. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Banzai International, Inc. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Banzai International, Inc. data come from?
Filings Banzai International, Inc. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001826011: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
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Last reconciled Oct 21, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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