Bite Acquisition Corp.
Cash in trust
$25.5M
$25,459,717
Trust per share
$10.00
Redemption value
IPO
Feb 2021
$200.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
131
Latest Jul 5, 2024
Overview
Bite Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001831270. It completed its initial public offering in Feb 2021, raising $200.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Smart Dine through Smart Dine, LLC. The mandate targets consumer. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus our search on the traditional and non-traditional restaurant sectors in North America.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Bite Acquisition Corp. 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 $10.00 per public share, effectively the $10.00 the units were sold at, so little or no interest has accrued to the account yet.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 656,250 shares against 2,359,298 public shares, or 21.8% 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.
Sponsor record
Smart Dine has launched 2 vehicles. Of the 2 that have resolved, 0 closed a combination and 2 liquidated, a 0% completion rate. A sponsor's record is not a forecast, but it does tell you whether the team has taken a deal across the line before.
Underwriting
EarlyBirdCapital led the offering. It has been named on 52 SPAC IPOs, and 23.1% 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.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001104659-24-078021
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001104659-24-078020
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001104659-24-078019
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001104659-24-078018
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001104659-24-077841
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001143313-24-000058
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-076283
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-070579
- 10-K/A
FORM 10-K/A
Accession 0001104659-24-063902
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-24-000934
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001104659-24-061883
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-054917
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-045908
- DEFM14A
Definitive merger proxy statement
Accession 0001104659-24-045026
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-042677
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-033914
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-033912
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001410578-24-000176
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-029512
- SC 13G/A
13G/A
Accession 0001584639-24-000022
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-026124
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule; Regulation FD disclosure
Items 3.01, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-025824
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-24-024631
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-24-022549
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001193125-24-034257
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001584639-24-000002
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001104659-24-005873
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001104659-24-001783
- 3/A
OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT
Accession 0001104659-23-129712
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-23-002562
Bite Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Bite Acquisition Corp.?
Bite Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001831270. It completed its initial public offering in Feb 2021, raising $200.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Smart Dine through Smart Dine, LLC. The mandate targets consumer. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Bite Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $25,459,717, or about $10.00 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 Bite Acquisition Corp. 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 Bite Acquisition Corp. 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 Bite Acquisition Corp., 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 $10.00 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.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Bite Acquisition Corp.?
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 Bite Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 656,250 shares against 2,359,298 public shares, so roughly 21.8% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. 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 Bite Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
Smart Dine, LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Smart Dine franchise. That franchise has launched 2 vehicles in total, of which 0 closed a combination and 2 liquidated, a 0% completion rate on resolved vehicles. Named principals: Alberto Ardura Gonzalez.
Which banks underwrote the Bite Acquisition Corp. IPO?
EarlyBirdCapital, Ladenburg Thalmann, Joseph Gunnar &. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Bite Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Bite Acquisition Corp. 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 Bite Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Bite Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001831270: 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 Sep 4, 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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