Bark, Inc.BARK
Cash in trust
$254M
$254,382,396
Trust per share
—
Redemption value
IPO
Nov 2020
—
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
502
Latest Oct 13, 2026
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- Dec 17, 2020
- Closed
- Jun 7, 2021
Overview
Bark, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001819574. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2020 and listing on NYSE. Class A shares trade under the ticker BARK on NYSE. The vehicle is sponsored by Bark. The mandate targets consumer, media & entertainment. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
“we intend to focus our efforts identifying businesses primarily in the beauty, wellness, self-care, fashion, e-commerce, subscription and digital-media space.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Bark, 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.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 937,500 shares against 7,752,515 public shares, or 10.8% of the combined count, acquired before the IPO at nominal cost. That promote is the structural dilution every public shareholder carries into a combination, and it is why the economics of a de-SPAC differ so sharply from a conventional IPO.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-third warrant per unit. Warrants are dilution deferred: they cost the holder nothing until exercised, and they overhang the post-combination share count. Thinner coverage is generally a sign of a stronger book at pricing.
Underwriting
Citigroup led the offering. It has been named on 170 SPAC IPOs, book-running 114 of them, and 53.6% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
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.
502 filings in all. 19 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 36.
News on Bark, Inc.
Last 90 days- Neutral
- Bark (BARK) Stock Trades Up, Here Is WhyNeutral
Yahoo · 1mo ago
- BARK Shareholder GNK Holdings Mulls Potential $11 Per Share Acquisition Offer For BARKNeutral
Benzinga · 1mo ago
News sentiment
NeutralAcross 5 recent stories, 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- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000028
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001628280-26-065536
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-009396
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000026
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-009371
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-009268
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001935704-26-000003
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-009160
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-009061
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-008977
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001819574-26-000006
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000024
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001858646-26-000015
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001858646-26-000013
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001913920-26-000008
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001976172-26-000008
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000022
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001628280-26-054441
- 8-K
Current report
Items 2.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001628280-26-054350
- 10-K/A
10-K/A
Accession 0001628280-26-050635
- 8-K
Current report
Items 5.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001628280-26-050218
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000020
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000018
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001950047-26-006859
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000016
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001628280-26-042242
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001913920-26-000006
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001858646-26-000011
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002027006-26-000014
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001976172-26-000006
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Bark, Inc.: questions answered
What is Bark, Inc. (BARK)?
Bark, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001819574. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2020 and listing on NYSE. Class A shares trade under the ticker BARK on NYSE. The vehicle is sponsored by Bark. The mandate targets consumer, media & entertainment. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
How much does Bark, Inc. hold in trust?
Approximately $254,382,396, 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 Bark, 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 Bark, 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 Bark, 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. 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 Bark, Inc. trade under?
Class A shares trade as BARK on NYSE. 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 Bark, Inc.?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
How much dilution do Bark, Inc.'s founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 937,500 shares against 7,752,515 public shares, so roughly 10.8% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. Each unit also carried one-third warrant per unit, which is dilution deferred until exercise. Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.
Who sponsors Bark, Inc., and what is their track record?
Bark is the sponsor entity, part of the Bark franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Joanna Coles.
Which banks underwrote the Bark, Inc. IPO?
Citigroup. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Bark, Inc. tradeable, and where?
Yes. BARK returned a live quote of $8.00 on NYSE. 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 Bark, Inc. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Bark, 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 Bark, Inc. data come from?
Filings Bark, Inc. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001819574: 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 Nov 1, 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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