Northern Star Investment Corp. IV
Cash in trust
$45.6M
$45,645,489
Trust per share
$10.00
Redemption value
IPO
Mar 2021
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Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
94
Latest Jan 3, 2025
Overview
Northern Star Investment Corp. IV is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001835814. It completed its initial public offering in Mar 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by Northern Star. The mandate targets consumer. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus our efforts identifying businesses primarily in the direct-to-consumer and digitally-disruptive e-commerce spaces.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Northern Star Investment Corp. IV 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.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-sixth of one 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.
Sponsor record
Northern Star has launched 3 vehicles. Of the 3 that have resolved, 0 closed a combination and 3 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.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Items 5.03, 5.07 · Accession 0001213900-25-000842
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001213900-24-107050
- PRE 14A
PROXY STATEMENT
Accession 0001213900-24-104144
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001213900-24-030605
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-24-027956
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001062993-24-007233
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001062993-24-007231
- SC 13D/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (activist)
Accession 0001213900-24-026625
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001213900-24-022701
- PRE 14A
PROXY STATEMENT
Accession 0001213900-24-019644
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001213900-24-012638
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001315863-24-000204
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001104659-24-008546
- NT 10-K
Late annual report notification
Accession 0001213900-23-100005
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-098643
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0000876661-23-001016
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-076730
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-072844
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-071244
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-070319
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-069019
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-23-069020
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001062993-23-016600
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001213900-23-067853
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001213900-23-067804
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001213900-23-067160
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-23-008787
- CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC staff
Accession 0001213900-23-066112
- PRE 14A
PROXY STATEMENT
Accession 0001213900-23-063066
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001213900-23-053593
Northern Star Investment Corp. IV: questions answered
What is Northern Star Investment Corp. IV?
Northern Star Investment Corp. IV is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001835814. It completed its initial public offering in Mar 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by Northern Star. The mandate targets consumer. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Northern Star Investment Corp. IV hold in trust?
Approximately $45,645,489, 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV, 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV?
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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV's founder shares and warrants create?
Each unit also carried one-sixth of one 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV, and what is their track record?
Northern Star is the sponsor entity, part of the Northern Star franchise. That franchise has launched 3 vehicles in total, of which 0 closed a combination and 3 liquidated, a 0% completion rate on resolved vehicles. Named principals: Joanna Coles.
Is Northern Star Investment Corp. IV a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Northern Star Investment Corp. IV 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 Northern Star Investment Corp. IV data come from?
Filings Northern Star Investment Corp. IV submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001835814: 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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