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Real estate technology SPAC Fifth Wall Acquisition I prices upsized $300 million IPO

February 5, 2021
FWAA

Fifth Wall Acquisition I, a blank check company targeting a real estate technology business, raised $300 million by offering 30 million shares at $10. The company did not offer units with warrants attached.

The company is led by CEO and Chairman Brendan Wallace, who has served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Wall Ventures since 2016, and CFO and Director Andriy Mykhaylovskyy, who has been a Managing Partner at Fifth Wall Ventures since 2017. Fifth Wall Acquisition I intends to leverage its management team's experience and target a technology business focusing on verticals of the real estate industry, as well as the adjacent industries that collectively make up the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings to cities and beyond, which they refer to as the “Built World.”

Fifth Wall Acquisition I plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol FWAA. Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank acted as lead managers on the deal.