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Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I

CIK 0001854863

Cash in trust

$230.5M

$230,494,413

Trust per share

$10.00

Redemption value

IPO

Aug 2021

Combination deadline

Not disclosed

Filings on record

50

Latest Aug 14, 2023

Overview

Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001854863. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by Blue Whale through Blue Whale Sponsor I LLC. The mandate targets technology, media & entertainment. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.

we intend to focus our search for a target business operating in the media, entertainment and technology industries.
The mandate, as stated in the IPO prospectus

Reading the filings

Arithmetic on what Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I 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.

  • Underwriting

    Goldman Sachs led the offering. It has been named on 63 SPAC IPOs, book-running 39 of them, and 4.8% 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
  • 15-12G

    Deregistration of securities

    Accession 0001829126-23-005384

    Aug 14, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 25-NSE

    Notification of delisting

    Accession 0001354457-23-000566

    Aug 4, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 8-K

    Regulation FD disclosure; Other events

    Items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-23-197713

    Jul 28, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001829126-23-003678

    May 22, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-Q

    Late quarterly report notification

    Accession 0001829126-23-003488

    May 16, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 8-K

    Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule

    Items 3.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-23-002914

    Apr 25, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-K

    Annual report

    Accession 0001829126-23-002902

    Apr 24, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-K

    Late annual report notification

    Accession 0001829126-23-002503

    Mar 31, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G/A

    Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)

    Accession 0001172661-23-001482

    Feb 14, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G/A

    SC 13G/A

    Accession 0001104659-23-019972

    Feb 13, 2023

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001829126-22-019250

    Nov 14, 2022

    3y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001829126-22-015742

    Aug 12, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001829126-22-011726

    May 23, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-Q

    Late quarterly report notification

    Accession 0001829126-22-011106

    May 16, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-K

    Annual report

    Accession 0001829126-22-008021

    Apr 11, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-K

    Late annual report notification

    Accession 0001829126-22-007271

    Apr 1, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G

    Beneficial ownership report (passive)

    Accession 0001172661-22-000874

    Feb 14, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G/A

    SCHEDULE 13G/A

    Accession 0001104659-22-022963

    Feb 14, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G

    Beneficial ownership report (passive)

    Accession 0000902664-22-001685

    Feb 14, 2022

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001193125-21-338712

    Nov 23, 2021

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • 8-K

    Current report

    Item 4.02 · Accession 0001193125-21-337003

    Nov 22, 2021

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-Q

    Late quarterly report notification

    Accession 0001193125-21-330712

    Nov 16, 2021

    4y ago

    Open filing
  • 10-Q

    Quarterly report

    Accession 0001193125-21-282568

    Sep 24, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • 8-K

    Other events

    Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-21-280690

    Sep 23, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • NT 10-Q

    Late quarterly report notification

    Accession 0001193125-21-277222

    Sep 20, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13D/A

    Amended beneficial ownership report (activist)

    Accession 0001387131-21-008910

    Aug 24, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • 8-K

    Other events

    Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-21-254989

    Aug 24, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • 4

    Statement of changes in beneficial ownership

    Accession 0000899243-21-033748

    Aug 20, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13D

    Beneficial ownership report (activist)

    Accession 0001387131-21-008630

    Aug 16, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing
  • SC 13G

    Beneficial ownership report (passive)

    Accession 0001104659-21-106394

    Aug 16, 2021

    5y ago

    Open filing

Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I: questions answered

What is Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I?

Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001854863. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by Blue Whale through Blue Whale Sponsor I LLC. The mandate targets technology, media & entertainment. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.

How much does Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I hold in trust?

Approximately $230,494,413, 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 Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I 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 Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I 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 Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I, 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 Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I?

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.

Who sponsors Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I, and what is their track record?

Blue Whale Sponsor I LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Blue Whale franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.

Which banks underwrote the Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I IPO?

Goldman Sachs, BofA Securities. Goldman Sachs and BofA Securities were credited as book-running managers on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.

Is Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I a good investment?

That is not a question this site answers. Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I 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 Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I data come from?

Filings Blue Whale Acquisition Corp I submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001854863: 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.

Compiled by the SPACListing research desk

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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